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  2. Danube River Cruise Through Germany, Austria and Hungary (PHOTOS)

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    In August I joined Viking River Cruise's Romantic Danube trip from Nuremberg to. Jess Moss, AOL Onion-domed churches, vineyards chiseled into hills, ancient castles and grand palaces: a river ...

  3. Vienna New Year's Concert - Wikipedia

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    Of the encores, the unannounced first encore is often a fast polka. The second is Johann Strauss II's waltz "The Blue Danube", whose introduction is interrupted by light applause of recognition and a New Year's greeting in German (originally added by Willi Boskovsky) from the conductor and orchestra to the audience. The origin of this tradition ...

  4. The Blue Danube - Wikipedia

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    The first waltz theme is a familiar gently rising triad motif played by cellos and horns in the tonic (D major), accompanied by the harp; the Viennese waltz beat is accentuated at the end of each 3-note phrase. The Waltz 1A triumphantly ends its rounds of the motif, and waltz 1B follows in the same key; the genial mood is still apparent.

  5. Danube River cruise - Wikipedia

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    Today, the Danube can be reached by large nautical vessels from the Black Sea to Braila in Romania, river vessels to Kelheim in Germany, and small vessels to Ulm.The Rhine-Main-Danube Canal, completed in 1992, allows navigation from Rotterdam in the North Sea to Sulina in the Black Sea, and since 1994 has been designated as a Pan-European corridor.

  6. Viking revival - Wikipedia

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    The word Viking in the sense in which it is commonly used is derived from the Old Norse víkingr signifying a sea-rover or pirate. [1] [2] Thus, a modern understanding of "Viking" history is shaped by the views of the people of the Romantic era, who studied and wrote about "the Vikings" as seen from their point of view.

  7. Johannes Brahms - Wikipedia

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    In autographing a fan for Strauss's wife Adele, Brahms wrote the opening notes of The Blue Danube waltz, adding the words "unfortunately not by Johannes Brahms". [71] He made the effort, three weeks before his death, to attend the premiere of Johann Strauss's operetta Die Göttin der Vernunft (The Goddess of Reason) in March 1897.

  8. Waltz (music) - Wikipedia

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    A section from Johann Strauss' Waltz from Die Fledermaus. A waltz, [a] probably deriving from German Ländler, is dance music in triple meter, often written in 3 4 time.A waltz typically sounds one chord per measure, and the accompaniment style particularly associated with the waltz is (as seen in the example to the right) to play the root of the chord on the first beat, the upper notes on the ...

  9. List of compositions by Johann Strauss II - Wikipedia

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    Carnevalsbilder, Op. 357, Carnival Pictures (1873) Bei uns z'Haus , Op. 361, At Home (1873) Wo die Zitronen blühen , Op. 364, Where the Lemons Blossom (1874)