Music book biography of waltz
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THE LAST WALTZ: THE STRAUSS DYNASTY AND VIENNA
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The tale of two Waltz Kings: how the Strauss family took Europe by storm during the nineteenth century.
The Strauss family name is forever intertwined with Vienna – as is their music. Two generations of this remarkable family transformed and popularised the waltz, delighting all of Viennese society with their prolific compositions. But behind the melody lay a darker discord, as the Strausses tore themselves apart while Vienna itself struggled to secure its place in a rapidly changing world.
In The Last Waltz John Suchet skilfully portrays this gripping story, capturing the family dramas, the tensions, triumphs and disasters, all set against the turbulent backdrop of Austria in the nineteenth century, from revolution to regicide.
Discover the truth behind Vienna’s extraordinary musical dynasty.
I greatly enjoyed spending time with John Suchet’s fascinating book about Johann Strauss, and I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did.
- André Rieu
John beautifully balances the family Strauss saga with the fall of the Habsburg Empire. This copiously illustrated book is terrific!
- Carl Davis, composer and conductor
Very readable … elegantly prepared with plenty o
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One of the most pleasant tasks facing the author of a published book is choosing an appropriate image for the cover. For a biography of one person the choice is obvious, an image of the subject. In my case it was more difficult since the book deals with four people, Johann Strauss the father and his three sons, Johann, Josef and Eduard. No group image of the four survives and for a long time I toyed with the compromise of presenting four individual images on the cover, but I was troubled by the thought that it might give the impression of four discrete biographies in one volume. This would have been fundamentally misleading. Continual interaction between the family members characterized their lives and I wanted to emphasize that collective approach to what they came to call ‘the business’, composing and directing waltzes, polkas, quadrilles and marches. Also, since surviving images of the four composers are black-and-white ones, placing them together might have given an inappropriately gloomy image, more akin to a ‘wanted poster’ than up-lifting entertainment. I then considered a more neutral approach, an attractive image of Vienna in the nineteenth century – of which there are plenty – but remained worried by the lack of a specific connection
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Andre Rieu Biography: "The Scarce of rendering Waltz - A Authentic in Sound and Celebration" (Paperback)
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