永远的流行音乐.

The waltz king
The first original waltz Strauss played that night was called ``The Favor Seekers''; the last was titled ``Thought Poems.'' Those titles became his career's dual theme.
The waltz king
In the 1820s, Johann Strauss Sr. and his partner Josef Lanner were the first men to corner the Viennese waltz market. They wrote their own music and conducted their own small dance orchestras to great adulation and profit.
The waltz king
All Strauss waltzes are, in effect, thought poems, with an expressiveness and elaborate detail that transcend dance music forms. One reviewer of a Strauss concert at the 1867 Paris Exhibition wrote, ``No one thought of dancing, for everyone wanted to listen.''
主題: Vienna 永遠的 流行音樂
Strauss Waltz
Johann Strauss Jr 1825-1899
The Great Waltz (1938)
Directed by
Julien Duvivier (more)
Writing credits
Gottfried Reinhardt (story) Samuel Hoffenstein (screenplay) ...
The waltz king
His eldest son, Johann Jr., secretly rehearsed 15 musicians and made his debut in 1844. For the occasion he'd written four waltzes, two quadrilles and three polkas, which were immediately hailed as equal to his father's work. Before long, the young Strauss would far surpass the efforts of his father.
The waltz king
It's easy to tell most of these forms apart. The march needs no introduction. It's a two-step that's so simple it can't be danced to; you merely, well, march to it.
The waltz king
And one of the most beloved of all 19th-century composers, a man whose music is now played by symphony orchestras around the world, was actually a danceband leader.
The waltz king
Strauss was and remains known as ``The Waltz King,'' but he wrote several different kinds of pieces - polkas, marches, quadrilles and others, as well as sparkling operettas including ``Die Fledermaus'' and ``The Gypsy Baron.''
The waltz king
Johann Strauss Jr. was the most commercially successful band leaders of his periods, Strauss' prosperous home town of Vienna went waltz mad in the early 19th century. Spectacular dance palaces were everywhere. The privileged classes threw one opulent party after another, while the working classes congregated at tradesmen's balls.
The waltz king
A 源自文库ot of what we call classical music started out as popular music. Most of the non-religious Renaissance pieces performed now by scholarly early music groups are nothing more than extremely old oldies pop songs and dance tunes that hit the charts before 1600.
The waltz king
Despite his success - or perhaps because he feared the competition - Strauss insisted that his sons pursue non-musical careers. Two of them, Eduard and Josef, obeyed, but wrote waltzes and polkas on the side.