Later, little John learned counterpoint and harmony skills from Professor Joachim Hoffman who started a private music school. When studying harmony with conductor Joseph Dresch, his talent was greatly recognized. Similarly, he was highly praised by his other violin teacher, Anton Coleman, who was a ballet teacher at the Vienna Palace Opera House. Thanks to the high praise of these people, he succeeded in getting unwritten permission from the authorities to perform in public. Later, he quickly recruited enough people to expand his orchestra in the' Zurstadt Belgrad' pub (a fixed place for Vienna musicians to find jobs). However, due to his father's great influence and power, little John has almost no contract to perform in the theater. In the end, little John finally persuaded Dommayer Casino in Hietzing establishment in Vienna to give him a chance to make a debut. The local media reported the "Strauss family civil war" between father and son crazily. Old John himself was very angry because his son went against his wishes for his son. In a rage, he decided never to enter Dommeyer's casino again in his lifetime.
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Performing on the stage, although Hietzing establishment is a testimony to his brilliant success in many performances in his early years.
Little Strauss: The afterlife is awesome. As early as 6 years old, little Strauss played his own waltz on the piano at home.
Strauss was very uneasy about his son's musical talent. He banned all musical activities of his children. However, Anna is proud of her children's precocity in music. She quietly recorded the child's debut. Maybe from that day on, she began to imagine a plan to get back at her husband. She saved money from her meager family living expenses to hire teachers and give music lessons to her son, hoping that little John could challenge his father one day.
His father was not completely surprised that little Strauss entered the music industry. Many years ago, old Strauss came home occasionally and saw his son practicing the violin, so he beat him with a whip. From then on, old Strauss had doubts about his son and was deeply troubled. He asked his agent Hirsch to warn the main ballroom in Vienna that if someone accepted Strauss Jr.' s performance there, the father of waltz himself would disappear from that ballroom. Little Strauss was rejected by the major dance halls and had to go to an open-air concert in the garden of a cafe in the suburbs.
The nosy man told his father the news of little Strauss's rehearsal. In a rage, old Strauss announced that he would also hold a concert that night. But later, he learned that his concert tickets were not as popular as his son's tickets on the black market, so he canceled the plan to hold a concert. Old Strauss flew into a rage and finally fell ill.
Faithful Hirsch was very worried about the health of the father of waltz, so he came up with a dramatic plan.
He organized some people to make trouble at the concert of little Strauss.
It's time for the performance. People left the city early and flocked to cafes in the suburbs. A large group of people who didn't buy tickets gathered outside the venue, eager to squeeze in, so that the local government had to send mounted police to surround the cafe. In the arcade behind the garden, sits Anna Strauss, who seems to be praying for her son.
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Like his father's first concert in Paris, little Strauss's first program of the day was an opera overture by French composer Ober, which seemed to follow a family tradition. Little John was not depressed by the sparse applause of the audience. He knew that people came here to compare him with his father as a composer.
Next, he played a waltz-"Mother's Heart", which was an ode to his mother by little Strauss. The wonderful music made the audience ecstatic, drowned the applause at the venue and drowned the boos of Hirsch and his party. People climbed into chairs and waved hats, shawls and handkerchiefs. Applause and cheers lasted for a long time. Another waltz, Poem of Reason, was repeatedly played for more than a dozen times at the repeated request of infatuated audience, which was really unprecedented.
To the confusion of the helpers, even Hirsch clapped and cheered happily. It is true that Hirsch is a friend of old Strauss and has economic interests in it, but he is more loyal to the art of music, and he cannot but express his heartfelt welcome to any real artist.
Finally, in the joy of success, little Strauss made a radiant gesture, asking everyone to be quiet, and the band played a soft movement again. When the soft music echoed in the night sky, the audience looked at each other and could hardly believe their ears. Isn't this the most famous waltz by old Strauss, Charming Songs on the Rhine? In the expression of this piece of music
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In the part of love, little Strauss added such tenderness ... As the music unfolded, the audience gradually understood the profound meaning of this episode. Playing his father's works is not only a tribute to his parents, but also a prayer for his father's forgiveness. This made the audience burst into tears, even men.
In the turbulent years,1March 848, a revolution broke out in Vienna. Like the whole city, the Strauss family is divided into two factions. The old Strauss sided with the royalists, while the young Strauss sided with the insurgents. Ironically, however, neither of them has any firm political beliefs. Father became a royalist only because he had carried out orders; And his son's position is only out of sympathy for some of his friends. These young people just want to get rid of metternich, the prime minister who monopolizes power, and let the Habsburg dynasty come back to implement constitutionalism.
In that turbulent day, both father and son hung up the title of composer and conductor of military orchestra. In order to boost the royalists' morale, Lao Strauss wrote many brisk military marches, the most famous of which was the Radsky March. However, little Strauss's works have been given revolutionary titles, such as March of Freedom, March of Students, Song of the barricade and so on.
The Vienna Uprising finally failed. But dramatically, little Strauss was welcomed by people; Old Strauss, on the other hand, was devastated, and many people expressed indignation at his support for the royalists. In despair, old Strauss left Vienna with his band to look for the worship of the masses in the past. However, this hope has also become a bubble. In Prague, Munich,
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Heidelberg was opposed by people everywhere, and even received letters threatening and scolding him.
When he returned to Vienna, the political atmosphere had greatly eased. People no longer bear a grudge against old Strauss. His concerts are still popular with people. But old Strauss often seems upset and at a loss. In the next few months, he has been depressed and isolated, and his tenacity, enthusiasm and vitality, as well as his charming inspiration and anger, seem to disappear at once.
His attitude towards his son has also changed. Although he still has no contact with his son and his legal family, the resentment has disappeared. He even secretly felt proud of his son's musical achievements and longed to shake hands with him, but his stubborn self-esteem prevented him from doing so.
1On September 25th, 849, old Strauss was killed by scarlet fever. When the son heard the news, he found that his father's naked body had fallen to the floor from an empty cot. All the drawers in the cupboard have been ransacked, and Emily has swept away everything she can take away-even the pajamas worn by the deceased and the bedding on the bed.
Two days later, the coffin of old Strauss was carried to the solemn St. Stephen's Cathedral. Hundreds of people from all over Vienna came to pay their respects, and hundreds of bells in bell towers rang everywhere, and their cries echoed in the air. On the last leg of the funeral, members of the Strauss Orchestra unloaded his coffin from a hearse pulled by four dark horses, carried it on their shoulders, and sent it to the cemetery of Doblin Church in Carenborg. At that time, as a teenager determined to become a musician, he escaped from the book binding workshop and lay on this grassy hillside.
The Blue Danube1862 On August 27th, little Strauss married the singer Katie, who was 10 years old. After marriage, little Strauss lived an isolated life, with only a few close friends visiting occasionally. His way of entertaining guests is to play a quiet game of billiards together. His wife's wealth enabled him to completely free himself from daily performances and devote himself to composing music.
Among all the waltzes in the world, The Blue Danube is the most representative work. The inspiration for the young Strauss to compose this world-famous song comes from a poem describing love, including the phrase "Danube, beautiful blue Danube".
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River ". The fluent syllables of this poem strongly infected him. At that time, little Strauss was composing a song for the Vienna Youth Choir. He took "The Blue Danube" as the title of male chorus, and put it into the prelude of music, so that people can think of this gurgling river at the beginning of music. Strangely, this immortal masterpiece, which will become the symbol of Vienna music in the future, was considered as one of the few failed works when Strauss Jr. first met the audience. Hearing the news that the performance failed, little Strauss didn't care at all. At that time, he just mumbled, "well, let it go to hell." If little Strauss had not been invited to attend the international exposition held in Paris shortly thereafter, The Blue Danube would probably have been lost in his numerous musical manuscripts and forgotten.
In Paris, the newly released "le figaro" is going to advertise for little Strauss, and an editor suggested that a new song that Parisians have never heard will definitely add a lot of color to his concert. At this time, little Strauss remembered the Blue Danube, so he telegraphed to Vienna to ask for music scores and adapted them into orchestral music.
Thanks to the editor of le figaro, the premiere of The Blue Danube in Paris caused a great sensation in this World Expo. In the spectacular hall of the World Expo, little Strauss dedicated his masterpiece to thousands of audiences. Can it be successful this time?
With the development of light overture music, the passionate melody of the Blue Danube is like this beautiful river, ups and downs, flowing and escaping, and finally gradually returning to a poetic peace ... The music is over, but the audience is still intoxicated with the music atmosphere-after a silence, the cheers of the room suddenly broke out ... The anecdote of the New World is not in the anecdote of Little Strauss.
At that time, The Blue Danube had made Johann Strauss II's name a household name in the United States. The organizers of the Boston Peace Festival invited him to conduct the performance of his works in Massachusetts.
However, little Strauss was worried about crossing the ocean. In the end, perhaps a prize of $654.38 million enabled him to overcome his fear of water.
The organizers of the Boston Peace Festival are overzealous people. Little Strauss came to the rehearsal field for the first time. As soon as he set foot there, he saw a real music army-nearly 2,000 musicians and a giant choir of 20,000 people. The band is also equipped with a "chime" composed of large and small anvil, fire alarm bell and uneven track hanging on a wooden frame, and a percussion instrument group composed of "Drum King" with a diameter of 18 feet. In front of this music army, little Strauss stood on a high platform like a watchtower, and dozens of assistant conductors watched him through binoculars, and then conveyed his every move to his actors. In the face of a strong beat, the whole band is like a cannon, and Strauss, who has always emphasized the accuracy of syllables, can only look up to the sky and sigh.
His first impulse was to cancel the performance, but he was warned that Americans don't allow others to spoil their fun, and they often take revenge by lynching. Little Strauss wrote back to Vienna and said, "If I refuse to command, I will pay the price of my life." Therefore, he had to treat the whole performance as a farce.
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In front of an audience of more than 654.38 million, Strauss Jr. performed such a noisy performance for more than a dozen times, but Americans greatly appreciated it. During his short stay in America, little Strauss became a sensational hero.
A woman is proud of asking to cherish his hair. Little Strauss's footman enthusiastically gave them envelopes full of perfume-all of which contained one or two black curls cut from little Strauss's Newfoundland dog.
The twists and turns of life As time goes by, the feelings of little Strauss have also changed. The harmonious relationship between him and Kitty is fading.
1in the autumn of 876, a young man called Katie and asked her for money.
Little Strauss didn't know that Katie and Count Tedesco had two daughters and other children. He kicked the young man out, and Kitty didn't say anything at the time, but later, she asked her son to blackmail her. One day in April of the following year, little Strauss went out late and found Katie killed at home.
The sudden death of his wife caused a great mental blow to young Strauss. He felt an indescribable fear and ran to Italy. He didn't even attend Katie's funeral, and his brother Edward took care of it. It was not until a few months later that he had the courage to return to Vienna. This once passionate and charming violinist no longer plays the piano or bows.
However, little Strauss cannot do without love, which is the spiritual support that enables him to overcome fear and death.
Soon after, he got married again-the same girl from Koren, Angelica, 26.
Little Strauss and his beautiful young wife once became the objects of attention at social gatherings, and little Strauss was also beaming. However, Angelica can't have children, and she can't do any meaningful work. She often feels bored and her life is boring. She is more and more jealous of John's talent. Little Strauss was absorbed in her work, but Angelica thought it was a deliberate snub. Unwilling to be lonely, she began to look for new love.
Little Strauss said nothing about Angelica's strange behavior. No matter how much he suffered for it, he didn't get back at anyone. As far as people know, he neither reprimanded her nor quarreled with her. Later, Angelica just quietly left home.
Little Strauss was sad that Angelica had left. He must find a partner. As it happens, an acquaintance of his passed away, leaving a charming widow, aged 2 1. Adele, the daughter of a banker, has a good upbringing and little Strauss likes her very much. Adele died of her husband and felt lonely with her young daughter. She gratefully accepted the care and love of little Strauss. 1883 On August 5th, little Strauss and Adele got married in Coburg.
Little Strauss is now 58 years old, but his love for Adele has restored his youthful vitality. He writes a few affectionate letters to Adele almost every day. Before going to the theater to conduct the performance, he would leave this note: "Dear Adele! I want to change the speed of music from solemn adagio to agile allegro, so that I can come back to you and kiss you soon. Your John. "
Adele saved little Strauss from depression and sadness, and she let little Strauss spend his old age safely.
In the last few years of his life, little Strauss wrote music every day, and he was glad that he was still so energetic-it was really hard to get at his age.
On May 1899, ascensiontide, the traditional Austrian virgin, specially arranged a performance of Bat, which is the representative work of little Strauss in the field of opera. The 74-year-old little Strauss personally conducted the overture of the opera. Despite sweating, he devoted himself to music with the vigor of young people. After the performance, he walked home from the opera house instead of taking a carriage. He wants to relax the fatigue of this pleasant performance and enjoy the pleasant breath of spring.
In Vienna in May, the scents of lilacs and acacia are everywhere, and the buckeyes on both sides of the street are full of white flowers. Little Strauss walked in under the greenwood tree, and the music of "Bat" still seemed to ring in his ears ... but this was the last time he walked in the street.
The next day, he had a fever, which persisted. The doctor told Adele that little Strauss had lobar pneumonia. In the first few days, he put on a thick robe and shivered, still lying on his desk composing music for his first ballet Cinderella. He persisted in spite of his high fever and cough. Finally, he was bedridden. On June 1 day, little Strauss was unconscious and began to talk nonsense. "Adele told the last scene ... suddenly, he sat up from the bed, panting painfully and humming softly. This is an old song, but I have never heard him sing it before. From his pale lips came a soft song: "Little friend, my little friend, now we have to part." On the morning of June 3, he took my hand and kissed me again and again without saying a word. At four o'clock in the afternoon, he lay in my arms and died peacefully. '
There was a concert in Vienna Park that afternoon. At the end of the song, a man came up and whispered a few words to conductor Creme Sa. The conductor was silent for a while, and then gave a brief command to the first violinist. Since then, he has spread the news all over the band. Musicians change the score on the music stand, and stringed instrument players mute the instrument.
The audience whispered, waiting for him to announce the next program, but the conductor said nothing. In the whispers of the audience, the band played the immortal "Blue Danube". The speed was so slow that the volume was never higher than the sigh ... The audience understood and then dispersed silently. In this way, Vienna learned the bad news of Johann Strauss II's death.