onann rather ana Son A CENTURY OF LIGHT MUSIC . . ffacoL Tnntlsted
by Marguerite Wolff ress J COPYRIGHT, 1939 BY THE GREYSTONE PRESS,
INC. All Rights Reserved Manufactured in the U. S. A. THE WILLIAM
BYR0 PRESS, INC. APR 2 8 IOHANN STRAUSS THE YCM-NCKR 1896 onfenis
PAGE INTRODUCTION By Pitts Sanborn ix BOOK ONE Johann the Elder His
Life and Wor 1. THE BIRTH OF THE WALTZ 3 2. FROM EMPIRE TO
BIEDERMEIER 27 3. LANNER AND STRAUSS 55 4. CONQUEST OF THE WORLD 79
5. FATHER AND SON 113 6. EIGHTEEN HUNDRED FORTY-EIGHT 135 BOOK TWO
Johann the Younger and His Wor 7. THE GENIUS AND His BROTHERS 159
8. WALTZES AND DESTINIES 193 9. THE WORLD OF THE FLEDERMAUS 235 10
THE PATH TO THE ZIGEUNERBARON 277 ii THE LAST DAYS 321 12. AMERICAS
CHALLENGE, AND VICTORY OVER EUROPEAN DANCE FORMS 349 INDEX 373
iislrahons JOHANN STRAUSS THE YOUNGER, i THE CARMAGNOLE FETE DE LA
LIBERTE, AMSTERDAM 1795 ANNA STRAUSS-STREIM THE HOUSE IN THE
FLOSSGASSE JOHANN STRAUSS THE ELDER JOSEF LANNER KAISER FRANZ
FERDINAND RAIMUND THE SPERLJ 1830 VOLKSGARTEN, 1830 LANNER STRAUSS
MONUMENT, VIENNA MOTHER ANNA ANGELICA DIETTRICH JOHANN THE YOUNGER
JOHANN WITH JETTY TREFFZ ADELE DEUTSCH vii Frontispiece FACING PAGE
58 58 59 59 74 74 75 75 122 122 I2 3 123 306 306 307 37
ILLUSTRATIONS JOSEF STRAUSS 330 EDUARD STRAUSS 330 HECTOR BERLIOZ
331 STRAUSS AND BRAHMS 331 THE ZlGEUNERBARON 346 OSCAR STRAUS 346
JACQUES OFFENBACH 347 FRANZ LEHAR 247 PROGRAM OF ACADEMY OF Music,
NEW YORK 362 JOHN PHILIP SOUSA 363 vni G nlro clion by PITTS
SANBORN A whole family of famous musicians is by no means an
unusual phenomenon. The Strauss family of Vienna, whose name is al
most synonymous with the waltz, had earlier and later parallels.
Take the Couperins ofFrance. The oldest of them to achieve fame was
already prominent in 1650 when he became organist of the Church of
St. Gervais in Paris, a post held subsequently by mem ber after
member of that family. And the Couperins remained con spicuous in
the musical life of France till the death of the last survivor,
Celeste, in 1850. In our own country we have the noteworthy case of
the Dam rosch family, founded by Dr, Leopold Damrosch, the most
widely known of them being, of course, Walter Damrosch, famed both
as conductor and composer. And pre-eminent among the proto types
with conspicuous differences of the Viennese Strausses must be
named Johann Sebastian Bach and his four composer sons, and Leopold
Mozart and his prodigy children, Nannerl and Wolfgang. Other
musically fertile families have included the Gretrys, the
Mendelssohns, the Schumanns, and, for that matter, the Puccinis.
But no other musical line has captivated the imagina tion of the
whole world quite as the Strausses of Vienna have done, their
special destiny having been to set the wliole world waltzing. The
Strauss dynasty, for such it became through the reign of the Waltz
King, Johann the Younger, held long sway in Vienna, ix INTRODUCTION
the capital not only of the Habsburg empire, but of the earth
encompassing dominion of the new dance, and of the identifica tion
of the Strausses with the gayety, the color, the charm that
characterized the only Kaiserstadt during the nineteenth century
has been impressed upon the world by that most celebrated of all
waltzes, The Beautiful Blue Danube H. E. Jacob in this book
skilfully relates the aesthetic history of the waltz dynasty to the
social and even the political background of Austriaand, indeed, in
a measure to conditions in every coun try, from Russia to the
United States, in which a Strauss appeared as conductor inculcating
in person the authentic manner of play ing the fascinating dances
that already had given a unique quality to the court balls of the
ruling house of Austria. Berlin, St. Peters burg, Paris, London,
Boston and New York were favored in this tonal conquest of
three-quarter time. Mr. Jacobs book will impart some surprising
information to those for whom the Strauss in the familiar
bracketing Strauss Waltz is only a name...
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