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主題: Vienna 永遠的流行音樂 Strauss Waltz Johann Strauss Jr 1825-1899 The waltz king A lot of what we call classical music started out as popular music. Most of the non-religious Renaissance pieces performed now by scholarly early music groups are nothing more than extremely old oldies - pop songs and dance tunes that hit the charts before 1600. The waltz king And one of the most beloved of all 19th-century composers, a man whose music is now played by symphony orchestras around the world, was actually a dance-band leader. The waltz king Johann Strauss Jr. was the most commercially successful band leaders of his periods, Strauss prosperous home town of Vienna went waltz mad in the early 19th century. Spectacular dance palaces were everywhere. The privileged classes threw one opulent party after another, while the working classes congregated at tradesmens balls. The waltz king In the 1820s, Johann Strauss Sr. and his partner Josef Lanner were the first men to corner the Viennese waltz market. They wrote their own music and conducted their own small dance orchestras to great adulation and profit. The waltz king Despite his success - or perhaps because he feared the competition - Strauss insisted that his sons pursue non-musical careers. Two of them, Eduard and Josef, obeyed, but wrote waltzes and polkas on the side. The waltz king His eldest son, Johann Jr., secretly rehearsed 15 musicians and made his debut in 1844. For the occasion hed written four waltzes, two quadrilles and three polkas, which were immediately hailed as equal to his fathers work. Before long, the young Strauss would far surpass the efforts of his father. The waltz king The first original waltz Strauss played that night was called ``The Favor Seekers; the last was titled ``Thought Poems. Those titles became his careers dual theme. The waltz king All Strauss waltzes are, in effect, thought poems, with an expressiveness and elaborate detail that transcend dance music forms. One review