The Strauss Dynasty and Habsburg Vienna

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David Wyn Jones

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The music of the Strauss family – Johann and his three sons, Johann, Josef and Eduard – enjoys enormous popular appeal. Yet existing biographies have failed to do justice to the family's true significance in nineteenth and early twentieth-century musical history. David Wyn Jones addresses this deficiency, engagingly showing that – from Johann's first engagements in the mid-1820s to the death of Eduard in 1916 – the music making of the family was at the centre of Habsburg Viennese society as it moved between dance hall, concert hall and theatre. The Strauss industry at its height was, he demonstrates, greater than any one of the individuals, with serious personal and domestic consequences including affairs, illness, rivalry and fraud. This zesty biography, spanning over a hundred years of history, brings the dynasty brilliantly to life across a large canvas as it offers fresh and revealing insights into the cultural life of Vienna as a whole.

Author Biography:

David Wyn Jones is Emeritus Professor of Music at Cardiff University. He has written extensively on music and musical life in Vienna, including biographies of Haydn (2009) and Beethoven (1998). The relationship between music and society in three different epochs is explored in Music in Vienna, 1700, 1800, 1900 (2016).

Release date NZ

June 29th, 2023

Author

David Wyn Jones

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Illustrations

Worked examples or Exercises

Pages

300

Dimensions

179x251x21

ISBN-13

9781009276474

Product ID

36636172

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