The Johann Strauss Family, Their History and Music

Instructor
Bisno, David
Category
Music - Single Lecture
David Bisno returns to sweep us away with the beauty and tragedy, of this talented family and their three-quarter time music. Learn about their, feuds, jealousy, sex and betrayal living in a city that was desperate but not serious, in a country that sparkled with waltzing but was unraveling between vineyard and Danube. Through the personal and political chaos, the Strauss family composed hundreds of waltzes and polkas to which the Viennese – anxious to forget their troubles – danced and drank as they and their country hurtled towards the First World War, and oblivion.
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