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12 Waltzes By Johann Strauss Jr. Not Named "The Blue Danube"
This article was originally published in 2019.
Though Johann Jr. wasn’t the only waltz-writing Strauss (see Johann I, Josef and no-relation-Richard if you still haven’t gotten your Strauss fix from this), there’s a reason that Johann Strauss II is called “The Waltz King,” and that’s because he just wrote so many waltzes — hundreds, in fact. His most well-known in the genre is An der schönen, blauen Donau (On the Beautiful, Blue Danube), but we dug a little deeper into The Waltz King’s back catalogue to find more of his treasures. Here’s what we found:
Accelerationen (Accelerations Waltzes)…
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