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The Strauss dynasty and Habsburg Vienna / David Wyn Jones.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wyn Jones, David, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--Austria--Vienna--19th century--History and criticism.
- Music.
- Strauss, Johann, 1804-1849.
- Strauss, Johann.
- Strauss, Johann, 1825-1899.
- Strauss, Eduard, 1835-1916.
- Strauss, Eduard.
- Strauss, Josef, 1827-1870.
- Strauss, Josef.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 274 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 1804-1832. Johann Strauss and the Making of a Tradition
- 1833-1849. Father and Son. Travel and Revolution
- 1850-1870. Three Brothers : Johann, Josef and Eduard
- Dance and March : Music and Culture
- 1871-1899. Two brothers : Johann and Eduard
- Staging Comedy : Operetta and Opera
- 1900-1916. One brother : Eduard
- A Disenchanted Brother and a Disinherited Son
- Memories, Monuments
- Eduard's Reminiscences
- The End of Two.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Jun 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781009276450 (ebook)
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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