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"The Blue Danube" is the common English title of "An der schönen blauen Donau", Op. 314 (German for "By the Beautiful Blue Danube"), a waltz by the Austrian composer Johann Strauss II, composed in 1866.
Strauss came to the United States in 1872, where he took part in the World's Peace Jubilee and International Musical Festival in Boston at the invitation of bandmaster Patrick Gilmore and was the lead conductor in a "Monster Concert" of over 1000 performers [15] performing his "Blue Danube" waltz. He also conducted other pieces of his at the ...
February 15 – First performance of Johann Strauss II's waltz "The Blue Danube" (An der schönen blauen Donau, composed 1866) at a concert of the Vienna Men's Choral Association (Wiener Männergesang-Verein). Strauss adapts it into its popular purely orchestral version for the International Exposition in Paris later this year.
The spaceship approaching the space station, floating, as if in an interstellar dance, to the strains of Strauss' “The Blue Danube Waltz,” remains the meme of film.
The Strauss Dynasty (German: Die Strauß-Dynastie) is an Austrian biographical film in six parts from 1991. It depicts the careers of Johann Strauss (father), the composer of the Radetzky March, and his son Johann Strauss (son) ("Schani"), the composer of the waltz The Blue Danube, who, despite his father's resistance, also became a musician and competed with his father as a waltz composer.
An der schönen blauen Donau, Op. 314, On the Beautiful Blue Danube, or The Blue Danube (1866) Künstlerleben, Op. 316, Artists' Life (1867) Telegramme , Op. 318, Telegrams (1867) Die Publicisten, Op. 321, The Publicists (1868) G'schichten aus dem Wienerwald, Op. 325, Tales from the Vienna Woods (1868) Illustrationen, Op. 331, Illustrations (1869)