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Franz Josef Strauss (26 February 1822 – 31 May 1905) was a German musician. He was a composer , a virtuoso horn player and accomplished performer on the guitar , clarinet and viola . He was principal horn player of the Bavarian Court Opera for more than 40 years, a teacher at the Royal School of Music , Munich, and a conductor.
Franz Strauss, father of Richard Strauss. Strauss was born on 11 June 1864 in Munich, the son of Josephine (née Pschorr) and Franz Strauss, who was the principal horn player at the Court Opera in Munich and a professor at the Königliche Musikschule. [1] [2] His mother was the daughter of Georg Pschorr, a financially prosperous brewer from ...
Johann Strauss I (1804–1849) – early-Romantic-era dance-music composer; Johann Strauss II (1825–1899) – Romantic-era composer of waltzes and polkas, wrote The Blue Danube waltz; Josef Strauss (1827–1870) – dance-music composer; brother of Johann Strauss II; Franz von Suppé (1819–1895) – composer of light opera
Strauss completed his musical studies with his composition teacher, Friedrich Wilhelm Meyer, in February 1880 (he was a conductor and had been hired as a private teacher by Richard's father Franz Strauss since 1875). By the age of 18, Strauss had composed nearly 150 works.
Johann Baptist Strauss II (German: [ˈjoːhan bapˈtɪst ˈʃtʁaʊs]; 25 October 1825 – 3 June 1899), also known as Johann Strauss Jr., the Younger or the Son (German: Johann Strauß Sohn), was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas as well as a violinist.
Only 88 compositions by the German composer Richard Strauss (1864–1949) have been assigned opus numbers; these numbers are shown in the table below in the column "Op."." Two volumes of a catalogue of the remaining works were published by Erich Hermann Mueller von Asow (1892–1964) in 1959
Johann Strauss I, 1835 lithograph by Josef Kriehuber. Johann Baptist Strauss I (German: [ˈjoːhan bapˈtɪst ˈʃtʁaʊs]; 14 March 1804 – 25 September 1849), also known as Johann Strauss Sr., the Elder or the Father (German: Johann Strauß Vater), was an Austrian composer of the Romantic Period.
The Romantic era of Western Classical music spanned the 19th century to the early 20th century, encompassing a variety of musical styles and techniques. Part of the broader Romanticism movement of Europe, Ludwig van Beethoven, Gioachino Rossini and Franz Schubert are often seen as the dominant transitional figures composers from the preceding Classical era.