October 25, 2006
Johann Strauss II
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Strauss was a world-renowned Austrian composer best known for his waltzes, such as The Blue Danube. The son of a composer, he formed an orchestra in 1844 that was immediately successful and rivaled that of his father. After his father's death, Strauss merged the two orchestras and went on to compose more than 400 waltzes, bringing the Viennese waltz to a height of musical artistry and endowing it with new melodic, rhythmic, and orchestral richness. He came to be known by what nickname?
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