Playing Viennese waltzes on or around New Year’s Eve is a curious custom — the music was not written with that event in mind — but has become a reliable seller that most orchestras embrace. So it was ...

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To this day, Johann Strauss II is known the world over as the "King of Waltz." Even back in the 19th century, his dance music in three-quarter time made crowds go wild and won the hearts of women ...

A century ago quadrilles and cotillions went out of vogue and every café orchestra in Vienna played its music in three-four time because a nervous little man named Johann Strauss had started writing ...

Johann Strauss II—“The Waltz King”—was born on Oct. 25, 1825, in Vienna, Austria. It’s a city he is permanently associated with, now more than ever. In his youth, though, this hadn’t yet come to pass.

Every year on Jan. 1, music lovers in Vienna ring in the new year with a concert by the renowned Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Held in the elegant concert hall called the Musikverein, it’s an annual ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gustavo Dudamel conducts the 2017 Vienna Philharmonic New Year's concert at the Musikverein in Vienna. (Ronald Zak / Associated ...