What nationality were the composers Richard Strauss and Johan Sebastian Bach?
"Johann Sebastian Bach (painter) Johann Sebastian Bach (26 September 1748 – 11 September 1778) was a German painter. He was the son of composer Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and the grandson of composer Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach was born in Berlin. He studied under Adam Friedrich Oeser in Leipzig. In May 1773, he moved to Dresden, and in February 1776 he moved to Hamburg, where his father was Director of Music. In September 1776 he embarked on a study trip to Rome, where he became seriously ill soon after his arrival in February 1777, and died of this unknown ailment"
"Johann Christian Bach Johann Christian Bach (September 5, 1735 – January 1, 1782) was a German composer of the Classical era, the eighteenth child of Johann Sebastian Bach, and the youngest of his eleven sons. After a spell in Italy, Bach moved to London in 1762, where he became known as ""the London Bach"". He is also sometimes known as ""the English Bach"", and during his time spent living in the British capital, he came to be known as John Bach. He is noted for influencing the concerto style of Mozart. Johann Christian Bach was born to Johann Sebastian and"
"Johann Strauss I Johann Strauss I (; also Johann Baptist Strauss, Johann Strauss Sr., the Elder, the Father; March 14, 1804 – September 25, 1849) was an Austrian Romantic composer. He was famous for his waltzes, and he popularized them alongside Joseph Lanner, thereby setting the foundations for his sons to carry on his musical dynasty. He is perhaps best known for his composition of the Radetzky March (named after Joseph Radetzky von Radetz). Strauss was born in Leopoldstadt (now in Vienna). Strauss's parents, Franz Borgias Strauss (October 10, 1764 – April 5, 1816) and Barbara Dollmann (December 3, 1770"
"Johann Christoph Bach Johann Christoph Bach (baptised – 31 March 1703) was a German composer and organist of the Baroque period. He was born at Arnstadt, the son of Heinrich Bach, Johann Sebastian Bach's first cousin once removed and the first cousin of J.S. Bach's father, Johann Ambrosius Bach. He was also the uncle of Maria Barbara Bach, J. S. Bach's first wife and second cousin. Johann Christoph married Maria Elisabeth Wiedemann in 1667. They had seven children, including four sons who became musicians: Johann Nicolaus (10 October 1669 – 4 November 1753), Johann Christoph Jr. (29 August 1676 –"
"Franz Strauss Franz Joseph Strauss (26 February 1822 – 31 May 1905) was a German musician. He was a composer, a virtuoso horn player and accomplished performer on the guitar, clarinet and viola. He was principal horn player of the Bavarian Court Opera for more than 40 years, a teacher at the Royal School of Music, Munich, and a conductor. Strauss is perhaps best known as the father of the composer Richard Strauss, on whose early musical development he was a great influence, steering his son to the classical and away from modern styles. As a composer, Strauss senior is"
"Adolf Strauss (composer) Adolf Strauss (16 August 1902 – 28 September 1944) was a Czech pianist, violinist, accordion and harmonica player, composer and kapellmeister. Strauss was born to Jewish parents, Josef and Rosa Strauss, in Žatec, a historic town in Louny District, Ústí nad Labem Region, in the Czech Republic (at the time still part of the Austrian Empire). He was killed on 28 September 1944 in Auschwitz concentration camp, Poland, under the Nazi regime. He studied music at the Prague Conservatory, earning his living by playing music in Prague's cafes. Due to an anti-Semitic incident in Prague, he eventually"
"entitled ""Tom and Jerry in the Hollywood Bowl"" from the series ""Tom and Jerry"" makes use of Strauss's overture of ""Die Fledermaus"". Another 1953 animated short ""Johann Mouse"" from the series ""Tom and Jerry"" features a mouse mesmerised by the playing of several Strauss waltzes by Johann Strauss himself, and later, by Tom. The 1968 film """" features ""The Blue Danube"". Johann Strauss II Johann Strauss II (October 25, 1825 – June 3, 1899), also known as Johann Strauss Jr., the Younger, the Son (), Johann Baptist Strauss, son of Johann Strauss I, was an Austrian composer of light music,"
"in his Genealogy (1735) as ""the profound composer"", thus hinting at his reputation, not just within the family, but within society. Johann Christoph Bach Johann Christoph Bach (baptised – 31 March 1703) was a German composer and organist of the Baroque period. He was born at Arnstadt, the son of Heinrich Bach, Johann Sebastian Bach's first cousin once removed and the first cousin of J.S. Bach's father, Johann Ambrosius Bach. He was also the uncle of Maria Barbara Bach, J. S. Bach's first wife and second cousin. Johann Christoph married Maria Elisabeth Wiedemann in 1667. They had seven children, including"
"Johann Nicolaus Bach Johann Nicolaus Bach (or Johann Nikolaus Bach) ( – 4 November 1753) was a German composer of the Baroque period. Johann Nicolaus was the eldest son of Johann Christoph Bach and the second cousin of Johann Sebastian Bach. He was educated at the University of Jena, where he later became organist. He was probably born at Eisenach, where his father was employed as a musician, attended the Eisenach Latin school until 1689, and was a student of the Jena city organist J.M. Knüpfer, a son of Sebastian Knüpfer; after an Italian sojourn in 1696, he became organist"
"Johann Strauss II Johann Strauss II (October 25, 1825 – June 3, 1899), also known as Johann Strauss Jr., the Younger, the Son (), Johann Baptist Strauss, son of Johann Strauss I, was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas. He composed over 500 waltzes, polkas, quadrilles, and other types of dance music, as well as several operettas and a ballet. In his lifetime, he was known as ""The Waltz King"", and was largely responsible for the popularity of the waltz in Vienna during the 19th century. Strauss had two younger brothers, Josef and Eduard Strauss,"
"fact that Rieu's focus is on highly accessible, enjoyable repertoire is not an argument against his musical credentials."" André Rieu André Léon Marie Nicolas Rieu (born 1 October 1949) is a Dutch violinist and conductor best known for creating the waltz-playing Johann Strauss Orchestra. Together they have turned classical and waltz music into a worldwide concert touring act, as successful as some of the biggest global pop and rock music acts. He resides in his native Maastricht. The name Rieu is of French Huguenot origin. André was born to Andries Antonie Rieu and his wife as the third of six"
"Johann Strauss III Johann Strauss III (16 February 18669 January 1939; ; also known as Johann Maria Eduard Strauss) was an Austrian composer whose father was Eduard Strauss, whose uncles were Johann Strauss II and Josef Strauss, and whose grandfather was Johann Strauss I. He was unofficially entrusted with the task of upholding his family's tradition after the dissolution of the Strauss Orchestra by his father in 1901. His talents were not fully realised during his lifetime as musical tastes had changed in the Silver Age with more popular composers such as Franz Lehár and Oscar Straus dominating the Viennese"
"composed by people like Johann Strauss the Younger. Richard Strauss was a leading composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include ""Der Rosenkavalier"" and ""Salome""; his ""lieder"", especially his ""Four Last Songs""; and his tone poems. Strauss, along with Gustav Mahler, represents the late flowering of German Romanticism after Richard Wagner, in which pioneering subtleties of orchestration are combined with an advanced harmonic style. The first half of 20th century saw a split between German and Austrian music. In Vienna, Arnold Schoenberg and his pupils Alban Berg and Anton Webern moved"
"Eduard Strauss Eduard ""Edi"" Strauss (15 March 1835 – 28 December 1916) was an Austrian composer who, together with brothers Johann Strauss II and Josef Strauss made up the Strauss musical dynasty. He was the son of Johann Strauss I and Maria Anna Streim. The family dominated the Viennese light music world for decades, creating many waltzes and polkas for many Austrian nobility as well as dance-music enthusiasts around Europe. He was affectionately known in his family as 'Edi'. Eduard Strauss' style was individual and did not attempt to emulate the works of his other brothers or his contemporaries. But"
"Andrew. Strauss' partner, Lionel Friedman, died in 2003. A longtime resident of Los Angeles, Strauss died in that city on February 14, 2011, of Parkinson's disease, at the age of 90. John Strauss John Leonard Strauss (April 28, 1920 – February 14, 2011) was an American television and film composer and music editor. Strauss co-wrote the theme song for the NBC television series, ""Car 54, Where Are You?"", with Nat Hiken. He also won a Grammy Award for his work as the producer of the soundtrack for the 1984 film, ""Amadeus"". He was also frequently collaborated with director Woody Allen"
"gehört die Welt"" (""The World Belongs to the Brave""), Op. 25, ""Unter den Linden"" (""Under the Linden Trees""), Op. 30, and ""Krönungs-Walzer"" (""Coronation Waltz""), Op. 40 (the latter celebrating the coronation of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom), were also considerably more popular than his earlier efforts. Johann Strauss III was born in Vienna and died in Berlin at the age of 72. From, Op. 10 to 23 is undiscovered. Johann Strauss III Johann Strauss III (16 February 18669 January 1939; ; also known as Johann Maria Eduard Strauss) was an Austrian composer whose father was Eduard Strauss, whose"
"Johann Jacob Bach Johann Jacob Bach (or Johann Jakob) (baptised – 16 April 1722) was a German musician, composer and an older brother of Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach is thought to have been born in Eisenach. After his studies at the Latin school there, he became oboist in the municipal band. After the death of their father Johann Ambrosius Bach in 1695, Johann Jacob and Johann Sebastian moved in with their older brother Johann Christoph Bach, organist at Ohrdruf. In 1704, he entered the service in the military band of the army of King Charles XII of Sweden. It is"
"John Strauss John Leonard Strauss (April 28, 1920 – February 14, 2011) was an American television and film composer and music editor. Strauss co-wrote the theme song for the NBC television series, ""Car 54, Where Are You?"", with Nat Hiken. He also won a Grammy Award for his work as the producer of the soundtrack for the 1984 film, ""Amadeus"". He was also frequently collaborated with director Woody Allen in his films, including ""Take the Money and Run"" in 1969 and ""Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)"" in 1972. Strauss was born in"
"Utan svafvel och fosfor Utan svafvel och fosfor (TrV 159) is an a cappella work for male voice choir, written by Richard Strauss in 1889. It sets the words found on a Swedish matchbox. Strauss had arrived at Weimar as Kapellmeister on September 8, 1889, in the residency of the Grand Dukes of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. The Hofkapellmaster (chief music director) was Eduard Lassen (1830-1904), who welcomed the young Strauss and ""readily acknowledged his artistic superiority."" Strauss finished orchestrating his tone poem ""Death and Transfiguration"" soon after his arrival, and on November 11 he premiered his ""Don Juan"". He spent many of"
"Ricercar Johann Bernhard Bach Johann Bernhard Bach (23 May 167611 June 1749) was a German composer, and second cousin of J. S. Bach. Johann Bernhard Bach was born in Erfurt in 1676 (most probably in November), in the house named ""Zu den drei Rosen"" (The Three Roses), in Junkersand Street , and was baptized on the 25th November 1676 in Erfurt's Merchant's Church (""Kaufmannskirche""). He – like his younger brother Johann Christoph, born in 1685 – received his early musical tuition from his father Johann Aegidius Bach. After attending the Schola Mercatorum at Erfurt he entered Erfurt's major secondary school"
"three sonatas from Bach's Op. 5 into keyboard concertos, and in later life Mozart ""often acknowledged the artistic debt he owed"" to Johann Christian. The works of JC Bach are given 'W' numbers, from Ernest Warburton's Thematic catalog of his works (New York City: Garland Publishing, 1999). Bach's compositions include eleven operas, as well as chamber music, orchestral music and compositions for keyboard music. Notes Sources Information Music Johann Christian Bach Johann Christian Bach (September 5, 1735 – January 1, 1782) was a German composer of the Classical era, the eighteenth child of Johann Sebastian Bach, and the youngest of"
"instruments, including harpsichords. Johann Michael Bach Johann Michael Bach (baptised , Arnstadt, Schwarzburg-Sondershausen – , Gehren) was a German composer of the Baroque period. He was the brother of Johann Christoph Bach, as well as first cousin, once removed and father-in-law of Johann Sebastian Bach (he was the father of J.S. Bach's first wife Maria Barbara Bach). He is sometimes referred to as the ""Gehrener Bach"" to distinguish him from the ""Wuppertaler Bach"", Johann Michael Bach (1745–1820). Johann Michael was born at Arnstadt, the son of Heinrich Bach, who was the great uncle of Johann Sebastian Bach. In 1673, Johann"
"era was undoubtedly in the works of Johann Sebastian Bach and Georg Friedrich Händel in the first half of the 18th century. Bach established German styles through his skill in counterpoint, harmonic and motivic organisation, and adapted rhythms, forms, and textures from Italy and France. Bach wrote numerous works, including preludes, cantatas, fugues, concertos for harpsichord, violin and wind, orchestral suites, the Brandenburg Concertos, ""St Matthew Passion"", ""St John Passion"" and the ""Christmas Oratorio"". Händel was a cosmopolitan composer that wrote music for virtually every genre of his time. His most famous works include the orchestral suites Water Music, Music"
"there, and wrote some of his first compositions for the orchestra. Strauss retired from the opera orchestra in 1889, though he continued his conducting and taught for some years thereafter. He died in Munich at the age of 83. Franz Strauss Franz Joseph Strauss (26 February 1822 – 31 May 1905) was a German musician. He was a composer, a virtuoso horn player and accomplished performer on the guitar, clarinet and viola. He was principal horn player of the Bavarian Court Opera for more than 40 years, a teacher at the Royal School of Music, Munich, and a conductor. Strauss"
"throughout the wider continent of Europe during the period 1870 to 1914. For example, national feeling in Czechoslovakia, Russia, and England encouraged the fine art counterparts of folk art that achieved expression in the works of ""inter alia"" Smetana, Dvořák, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Holst, and Vaughan Williams. Within this heady prevailing mixture of aspiration, purpose, and achievement, the foreword to the First Series explains the Commission's philosophy. ""Die Werke hervorragender älterer deutscher Tonmeister der Kunst und Kunstwissenschaft von neuem zugänglich zu machen, ist längst als eine Aufgabe unserer Zeit erkannt worden. . . . "" Johann Christoph Bach (1642-1703) was born"
"the city of Leipzig. A song that he composed in the camp with Ludwig Hift, """" (I know for sure that I'll see you again) was recorded in 2007 by Anne Sofie von Otter (Bengt Forsberg piano, Daniel Hope violin, Bebe Risenfors accordion) on Deutsche Grammophon (477 6546). Adolf Strauss (composer) Adolf Strauss (16 August 1902 – 28 September 1944) was a Czech pianist, violinist, accordion and harmonica player, composer and kapellmeister. Strauss was born to Jewish parents, Josef and Rosa Strauss, in Žatec, a historic town in Louny District, Ústí nad Labem Region, in the Czech Republic (at the"
"Ständchen (Strauss) ""Ständchen"" (""Serenade"") is an art song composed by Richard Strauss in 1886, setting a poem of the same title by the German poet Adolf Friedrich von Schack. It is the second song in his collection ""Six songs for high voice and piano"", Op. 17, TrV 149, which were all settings of Schack poems. The song is written for voice and piano. Schack was a wealthy aristocrat who was a poet, linguist, diplomat and art collector. He was born in Mecklenburg but lived in Munich from 1855 onwards. His translations of Persian poems were among his outstanding contributions. Strauss"
"Josef Strauss Josef Strauss (20 August 1827 – 22 July 1870) was an Austrian composer. He was born in Mariahilf (now Vienna), the son of Johann Strauss I and Maria Anna Streim, and brother of Johann Strauss II and Eduard Strauss. His father wanted him to choose a career in the Austrian Habsburg military. He studied music with Franz Dolleschal and learned to play the violin with Franz Anton Ries. He received training as an engineer, and worked for the city of Vienna as an engineer and designer. He designed a horse-drawn revolving brush street-sweeping vehicle and published two textbooks"
"Johann Michael Bach Johann Michael Bach (baptised , Arnstadt, Schwarzburg-Sondershausen – , Gehren) was a German composer of the Baroque period. He was the brother of Johann Christoph Bach, as well as first cousin, once removed and father-in-law of Johann Sebastian Bach (he was the father of J.S. Bach's first wife Maria Barbara Bach). He is sometimes referred to as the ""Gehrener Bach"" to distinguish him from the ""Wuppertaler Bach"", Johann Michael Bach (1745–1820). Johann Michael was born at Arnstadt, the son of Heinrich Bach, who was the great uncle of Johann Sebastian Bach. In 1673, Johann Michael became the"
"Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (8 March 1714 – 14 December 1788), also formerly spelled Karl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, was a German Classical period musician and composer, the fifth child and second (surviving) son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach. His second name was given in honor of his godfather Georg Philipp Telemann, a friend of Johann Sebastian Bach. C. P. E. Bach was an influential composer working at a time of transition between his father's baroque style and the classical and romantic styles that followed it. His personal approach, an expressive and often turbulent"
"Johannes Bach Johann or Johannes Bach (26 November 1604, Erfurtburied 13 May 1673, Erfurt) was a German composer and musician of the Baroque. He was the father of the so-called ""Erfurt line"" of Bach family musicians. Johannes was the eldest son of Johannes Hans Bach and the brother of Christoph Bach and Heinrich Bach. All three were composers. He spent seven years studying under Johann Christoph Hoffmann, a ""stadtpfeifer"" in Suhl. From 1634 he served as organist at St. Johannis church in Schweinfurt, and was later organist at Suhl. In 1635 he became town musician and director of the Raths-Musikanten"
"Johann Bernhard Bach Johann Bernhard Bach (23 May 167611 June 1749) was a German composer, and second cousin of J. S. Bach. Johann Bernhard Bach was born in Erfurt in 1676 (most probably in November), in the house named ""Zu den drei Rosen"" (The Three Roses), in Junkersand Street , and was baptized on the 25th November 1676 in Erfurt's Merchant's Church (""Kaufmannskirche""). He – like his younger brother Johann Christoph, born in 1685 – received his early musical tuition from his father Johann Aegidius Bach. After attending the Schola Mercatorum at Erfurt he entered Erfurt's major secondary school at"
"radio chorus, with the Swedish lyrics, conducted by Robin Gritton. Utan svafvel och fosfor Utan svafvel och fosfor (TrV 159) is an a cappella work for male voice choir, written by Richard Strauss in 1889. It sets the words found on a Swedish matchbox. Strauss had arrived at Weimar as Kapellmeister on September 8, 1889, in the residency of the Grand Dukes of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. The Hofkapellmaster (chief music director) was Eduard Lassen (1830-1904), who welcomed the young Strauss and ""readily acknowledged his artistic superiority."" Strauss finished orchestrating his tone poem ""Death and Transfiguration"" soon after his arrival, and on November"