Perhaps the greatest tribute that Brahms paid to Strauss was his remark that he would have given anything to have written The Blue Danube waltz.

The younger Strauss would sometimes break up the one-two-three of the melody with a one-two pattern in the accompaniment along with other rhythms, maintaining the 3 / 4 time while causing the dancers to dance a two-step waltz.

Strauss Jr. eventually surpassed his father's fame, and became one of the most popular waltz composers of the era, extensively touring Austria – Hungary, Poland, and Germany with his orchestra.

Later, in the 1870s, Strauss and his orchestra toured the United States, where he took part in the Boston Festival at the invitation of bandmaster Patrick Gilmore and was the lead conductor in a ' Monster Concert ' of over 1000 performers, performing his " Blue Danube " waltz, amongst other pieces, to great acclaim.

Strauss was admired by other prominent composers: Richard Wagner once admitted that he liked the waltz " Wein, Weib und Gesang " Op.

Johannes Brahms was a personal friend of Strauss ; the latter dedicated his waltz " Seid umschlungen, Millionen!

Strauss also adapted various popular melodies of his day into his works so as to ensure a wider audience, as evidenced in the incorporation of the Oberon overture into his early waltz, " Wiener Carneval ", Op.

They were written in three-quarter time with a short introduction ; often with little or no reference to the later chain of five two-part waltz structure ; usually appended with a short coda and concluded in a stirring finish, although his son Johann Strauss II expanded the waltz structure and utilized more instruments than his father.

* Johann Strauss I ( 1804 – 1849 ), or Johann Strauss Sr., composer, popularizer of the waltz

* Phänomene, a waltz composed by Johann Strauss II

Lumbye was inspired by Viennese waltz composers like the Strauss family ( Johann Strauss I and his sons ), and became known as the " Strauss of the North.

The second is Johann Strauss II's waltz The Blue Danube, whose introduction is interrupted by applause of recognition and a New Year greeting from the musicians to the audience.

Also, English conductor Sir Roger Norrington pointed out in his interview with fellow conductor Charles Hazlewood that was broadcast on BBC on 25th July 2011 prior to his performance of Mahler's Ninth Symphony with the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, that Mahler quoted five times Johann Strauss Jr .' s waltz for the opening ball of Musikverein in Vienna, titled " Freut euch des Lebens " ( 1870 ), or " Enjoy Life ".

With Der Rosenkavalier of 1910, Strauss changed direction, looking towards Mozart and the world of the Viennese waltz as much as towards Wagner.

At the end of the show, the couple would perform a Johann Strauss waltz.

Johann Strauss II ( 1825 – 1899 ), the " waltz king ", contributed Die Fledermaus ( 1874 ) and The Gypsy Baron ( 1885 ).

314 ( German for On the Beautiful Blue Danube ), a waltz by the Austrian composer Johann Strauss II, composed in 1866.

Its initial performance was only a mild success however and Strauss is reputed to have said " The devil take the waltz, my only regret is for the coda — I wish that had been a success!

* Trifoilen waltz, (' Trifles ') ( with Johann II and Josef Strauss ) ( 1865 )

333, is a waltz by Johann Strauss II.

Strauss ' works at this age displays the Waltz King at the height of his creative powers, and it was no less evident in this waltz with its 137-bar introduction, combining tranquil melodies with superb orchestration.

The piece was among Strauss last great waltzes and it brims with youthful vigour yet with hints of pensiveness and poignant moments as was common among his last works.

Strauss ' Der Zigeunerbaron, a Hungarian-influenced work, remained his next best-remembered operetta after Die Fledermaus and brims with memorable melodies taken from the stage work.

Strauss ' waltz brims with joy and demonstrates a creative period where he and his brothers Josef and Eduard were also on hand to dominate the musical scene in Vienna as this piece was intended for the 1864 Fasching.

Put to the service of lieder of Schubert, Brahms, Strauss and Wolf in a dramatical and musical way, it made its effect with ease and precision.

Her film credits also include a featured role in Marked For Death opposite Steven Seagal, Pass The Ammo with Tim Curry, and the CBS feature 83 Hours Till Dawn with Peter Strauss and Robert Urich.

Written in 1913 in a style reminiscent of Strauss and Reger, with homage to the grandiosity of Bruckner.

In 1944 he made a now infamous list with " irreplaceable artists " called the Gottbegnadeten list with people such as Arno Breker, Richard Strauss and Johannes Heesters.

* 1873 – Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U. S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.

Reagan describes lunching with former Democratic National Committee chairman Robert Strauss, wherein Strauss said to her, " When you first came to town, Nancy, I didn't like you at all.

Leo Strauss argued that the strong influence of Xenophon, a student of Socrates more known as an historian, rhetorician and soldier, was a major source of Socratic ideas for Machiavelli, sometimes not in line with Aristotle.

Strauss argued that the unavoidable nature of such arms races, which have existed before modern times and led to the collapse of peaceful civilizations, provides us with both an explanation of what is most truly dangerous in Machiavelli's innovations, but also the way in which the aims of his apparently immoral innovation can be understood.

Strauss continued to produce a highly varied body of operatic works, often with libretti by the poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal, right up until Capriccio in 1942.

Composers such as Richard Strauss, Claude Debussy, Giacomo Puccini, Paul Hindemith and Hans Pfitzner pushed Wagnerian harmony further with a more extreme use of chromaticism and greater use of dissonance.

A number of continental European émigrés to Britain and the United States — including Hannah Arendt, Karl Popper, Friedrich Hayek, Leo Strauss, Isaiah Berlin, Eric Voegelin and Judith Shklar — encouraged continued study in political philosophy in the Anglo-American world, but in the 1950s and 1960s they and their students remained at odds with the analytic establishment.

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The metronome speed for a full bar varies between 60 and 70, with the waltzes of the first Strauss often played faster than those of his sons.

Political philosophers Leo Strauss and Hannah Arendt received their university education during the Weimar Republic and moved in Jewish intellectual circles in Berlin, and were associated with Norbert Elias, Leo Löwenthal, Karl Löwith, Julius Guttmann, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Franz Rosenzweig, Gershom Scholem, and Alexander Altmann.

Strauss and Arendt, along with Marcuse and Benjamin, were among the Jewish intellectuals who managed to flee the Nazi regime, eventually immigrating to the United States.

Carl Schmitt, a legal and political scholar, was also a vocal fascist supporter of both the Nazi regime and Spain's Franco ; however, he published works of political philosophy that remained studied by philosophers and political scholars with radically different views, such as Alain Badiou, Slavoj Žižek, and his contemporaries Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, and Leo Strauss.

* May 20 – Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U. S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.

* Richard Strauss — Die ägyptische Helena, opera with libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal ( 1929 )

After the back-to-back filming of Rear Window, Toko-Ri, Country Girl and Green Fire, Kelly flew to France, along with department store heir Bernard " Barney " Strauss, to begin work on her third and last film for Alfred Hitchcock, To Catch a Thief.

However, the peculiarly French custom of the réveillon ( a New Year's Eve supper party ) caused problems, which were solved by the decision to adapt the play as a libretto for Johann Strauss, with the réveillon replaced by a Viennese ball.