The Strauss Dynasty and Habsburg Vienna

by David Wyn Jones

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009276476
• ISBN13: 9781009276474
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.7" x 9.7"