200 years after the birth of Austria’s world famous Voltz King Johann Strauss II-During his lifetime, it is widely revered like a modern-day pop star-his music has not lost any magic.
Known for your Rouzing Waltz The Blue DanubeMany pieces of 500 dances of Austrian who became an informal national anthem of Austria live in Vienna’s Roaring Ball season.
Strauss’s frequent popularity lies in attractive melodies that he prepared to please the people, his great-nephew Eduard Strauss.
“He simply made music that touches everyone regardless of his background,” he said.
But his fame was much higher than his hits: like today, selling music meant to marketing the image of the star.
“One could say that he was actually the first pop star in the modern sense,” said Strauss Museum Guide Clara Cofman.
Vienna is marking bicetenary with special programs, concerts and exhibitions, and even an Austrian airline airplane emerged with a picture of Strauss and her violin.
Strauss “is a symbol of music for all”, the British dentist Helen Foster said, who visited one of the Strauss Museums in Vienna, saying that his attractive vaultz tunes were “popular with all the people of age” Are.
Impressive stage show
Strauss was born in 1825 in a family of famous musicians in the suburbs of Vienna, but despite her father being a domestic name, Strauss Junior did not easily come.
Describing his father’s clear desire that he would not follow his footsteps, he secretly took a violin lesson with his mother’s support.
After her father left the family for another woman, Strauss’s mother Anna became a motivational power behind her eldest son’s career, who “churned music” to live a life.
“Unlike today, there was no insurance, no pension scheme or anything like that,” said Mr. Eduard Strauss.
The 69 -year -old retired judge said, “Life was to be acquired.”
Johann made his debut at the age of 18, becoming a direct rival of his father.
Completing his father’s simple Waltz, he raised him in sophisticated concerts, helped many people with light, energetic dance music, who about the difficulties faced in the 19th-century Imperial Vienna forgot.
He put an impressive show on the stage, playing the violin with a luxurious pancake and operating the orchestra with his bow, while jumping up and down.
Mr. Cofman said that his coffer was praised for his impeccable look, “was styled with a hair iron before every performance”, Mr. Cofman said. As soon as he became old, he painted his hair and beard to maintain his young appearance.
Marketed as a woman, the workholic was a completely different person who was suffering from insecurity and self-doubt, her great nephew said.
“They had many phobia – including travel phobia – and there were difficulties with women. He was the boy of an uncle, “he said.
When his father died in 1849, the younger Strauss handled his orchestra as well as up-scale entertainment installations in the city.
Despite being suffering from a nervous breakdown due to tiredness, he continued to perform and compose at an impressive speed.
In 1866, he wrote that it is definitely the most famous Waltz in the world, The Blue DanubeWhich is depicted in the prestigious Vienna New Year concert every year.
Although Strauss despised the journey, he regularly visited Europe, entertaining Russian nobility for more than a decade.
In 1872, he placed the world’s Shanti Jubilee in Boston at a two -week concert, in which tens of thousands of people participated.
Initially struggling to create the operating, he wrote many of them, including some hits such as the “dye fladermus”.
“People still dance on Strauss Walts, but you can also hear them in the concert hall, and this was his special achievement,” composer Thomas Agnar said about the legacy of the revered composer who died in 1899.
Published – 17 February, 2025 10:46 AM IST
