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See also:STRAUSS, JOHANN (1804-1849) , See also:Austrian orchestral conductor and composer of See also:dance-See also:music, was See also:born at See also:Vienna on the 14th of See also:March 1804. In 1819 he obtained his first engagement as a violinist in a small See also:band then playing at the Sperl, in the Leopoldstadt, and after acting as See also:deputy-conductor in another See also:orchestra, he organized in 1825 a little band of fourteen per-formers on his own See also:account. It was during the See also:carnival of 1826 that Strauss inaugurated a See also:long See also:line of triumphs by introducing his band to the public of Vienna at the Schwan, in the Rossau suburb, where his famous Tauberl-Walzer (op. 1) at once established his reputation as the best composer of dance-music then living. Upon the strength of this success he was invited back to the Sperl, where he accepted an engagement, with an increased orchestra, for six years. Soon after this he was appointed kapellmeister to the 1st See also:Burger See also:regiment, and entrusted with the See also:duty of providing the music for the See also:court balls; while the number of his private engagements was so See also:great that he found it necessary to enlarge his band from See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time to time until it consisted of more than two See also:hundred performers. In 1833 he began a long and extended See also:series of See also:tours throughout See also:northern See also:Europe, eventually visiting See also:England in 1838. In See also:Paris he associated himself with Musard, whose quadrilles became not much less popular than his own waltzes; but his greatest successes were achieved in See also:London, where he arrived in time for the See also:coronation of See also:Queen See also:Victoria, and played at seventy-two public concerts, besides innumerable balls and other private entertainments. The fatigue ,of these long journeys seriously injured Strauss's See also:health; but he soon resumed his duties at the Sperl; and on the 5th of May 1840 he removed with his band to the Imperial " Volksgarten," which thenceforth became the See also:scene of hismost memorable successes, his conducting being marked by a quiet See also:power which ensured the perfection of every minutest nuance. In 1844 Strauss began another extensive series of tours. In 1849 he revisited London, and, after his farewell See also:concert, was escorted down the See also:Thames by a See also:squadron of boats, in one of which a band played tunes in his See also:honour. This was his last public See also:triumph. On his return to Vienna he was attacked with See also:scarlet See also:fever, of which he died on the 25th of See also:September 1849. ,
Strauss was survived by three sons—Johann (1825-1899), See also:Joseph (1827–1870) and Eduard (b. 1835), all of whom distinguished themselves as composers of dance-music, and assisted in recruiting the ranks and perpetuating the traditions of the still famous band.
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