- Johann Strauss III
Johann Strauss III (German:"Johann Strauß") (
February 16 1866 -January 9 1939 ) was anAustria n composer, son ofEduard Strauss and grandson ofJohann Strauss I . He was unofficially entrusted with the task of upholding his family's tradition after the disbandment of the Strauss Orchestra by his father in 1901. His talents were not fully realised during his lifetime as musical tastes had changed in the Silver Age with more popular composers such asLehár and Oscar Straus dominating the Viennese musical scene with theiroperetta s, although his uncle,Johann Strauss II , supervised his development as a musician, a fact disputed byEduard Strauss .Despite his keen interest in composing, he was better remembered as a conductor. His only stage work, the three-act
operetta Katze und Maus , composed in 1898, premiered inVienna on23 December ,1898 , at theTheater an der Wien .cite web |url=http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com.proxy-um.researchport.umd.edu/subscriber/article/grove/music/52380pg5?q=johann+strauss+iii&search=quick&pos=1&_start=1#firsthit |title=Johann Strauss III |accessdate=2008-09-29 |publisher=Grove Music Online] Its public reaction bordered on utter dislike, and music critics called for the distraught composer to reassess himself and to appear under apseudonym , in order not to tarnish the name of his famous relatives. He salvaged the music score and produced independent pieces of which thewaltz es "Sylvianen" op. 1 and "Leonie" op. 2 survived obscurity.He also conducted from the
violin in the style of the "Vorgeiger" and of his family. In 1903, he elevated the Strauss family to a new age of development when theDeutsche Grammophon AG ofGermany recorded his conducting of the Johann Strauss Orchestra on eight single-sided records of works by his family. Principally, he was the first conductor in the Strauss family to actively conduct works to be recorded by prominent recording companies. His later works, such asDem Muthigen gehört die Welt ("The World Belongs to the Brave"), op. 25, and Krönungs-Walzer ("Coronation Waltz"), op. 40, (the latter celebrating the coronation of King Edward VII) were also considerably more popular than his earlier efforts.Johann Strauss III died in
Berlin on9 January ,1939 , before the outbreak ofWorld War II .References
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