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DISCID=630e3808
DTITLE=Johann Strauss / Masters of Classical Music - Vol 4
TTITLE0=Die Fledermaus (Excerpts)
TTITLE1=Wine, Woman and Song
TTITLE2=Tritsch Tratsch Polka
TTITLE3=The Blue Danube
TTITLE4=The Gypsy Baron: Introduction
TTITLE5=Annen Polka
TTITLE6=Vienna Blood
TTITLE7=The Gypsy Baron: Einzugsmarsch
EXTD=(P)1988 Delta Music Inc.  LaserLight 15 804\n\nNo other composer g
EXTD=rew up in such\nunpleasant family circumstances as\nJohann Strauss
EXTD= (1825-1899).  His father\nJohann Strauss the Elder, a successful
EXTD=\nand popular, but violent-tempered,\nnervous and overworked direc
EXTD=tor of\nmusic with his own orchestra, had six\nillegitimate childr
EXTD=en as well as his three\nsons, and his mean behaviour gave rise\nt
EXTD=o a solitary wish in his eldest son, who\nwas closely attached to
EXTD= his sorely\nafflicted mother: to one day surpass his\nfather in t
EXTD=erms of musical success.  As a\nchild, Johann Strauss the Younger
EXTD=\nexperienced the rehearsals of his father's\norchestra in the spa
EXTD=cious family\napartment and even experimented\nhimself on a small 
EXTD=piano, much to his\nfather's annoyance.  He studied the violin\nan
EXTD=d composition secretly, without his\njealous father's knowledge, 
EXTD=however,\nbeing taught by Joseph Drechsler, the\nchoirmaster at St
EXTD=. Stephen's Cathedral.\nAfter failing at grammar school and\nvocat
EXTD=ional school, and after only one\nyear's apprenticeship, the eigh
EXTD=teen-year-\nold Strauss put together his first\norchestra from une
EXTD=mployed musicians in\na musicians' hostel and applied to the\nMagi
EXTD=strate of the City of Vienna for a\nspecial licence to perform in
EXTD= public in\norder to give financial support to his\nmother and bro
EXTD=thers.  With his first\nperformance on October 15th, 1844,\nStraus
EXTD=s the Younger threw down the\ngauntlet to his father as a violini
EXTD=st,\ncomposer and director of music before\nthe eyes of a sensatio
EXTD=n-seeking public,\nand ousted him from his throne as King\nof the 
EXTD=Viennese Waltz.  This great success,\nwhich took place in a resta
EXTD=urant popular\nfor excursions and balls, was followed by\na comple
EXTD=te triumphal march on the part\nof the attractive, dark-haired yo
EXTD=ung man\nwith a moustache, who soon became the\nmost radiant fixed
EXTD= star in a Viennese sky\nfull of violins.  After the death of his
EXTD= father\n(1849), he combined his orchestra with\nhis father's, wen
EXTD=t on long tours abroad\nand only became a little strange with age
EXTD=:\nHe suffered from claustrophobia, spent\nhis time waiting for th
EXTD=e next attack, ended\nhis bright life with a dully flickering cod
EXTD=a\nin the form of pneumonia, and was given\nhis final resting-plac
EXTD=e alongside Schubert\nand Brahms at the Central Cemetery in\nVienn
EXTD=a.\n                                                      U.K.
EXTT0=1.1 Introduction\n1.2 Bruderlein und Schwesterlein\n1.3 Mein Herr,
EXTT0= was dachten Sie von mir\n1.4 Im Feuerstrom der Reben\n1.5 Mein He
EXTT0=rr Marquis\n1.6 Trinke, Liebchen\n1.7 Finale\n\nRTL Symphony\nKurt Re
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EXTT3=Vienna Strauss Orchestra\nJoseph Francek
EXTT4=RTL Symphony\nKurt Redel
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EXTT7=Vienna Strauss Orchestra\nJoseph Francek
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