The Strauss Dynasty and Habsburg Vienna (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781009276474)

The music of the Strauss family - Johann and his three sons, Johann, Josef and Eduard - enjoys enormous popular appeal. Yet existing biographies have failed to do justice to the family's true significance in nineteenth and early twentieth-century musical history. David Wyn Jones addresses this deficiency, engagingly showing that - from Johann's first engagements in the mid-1820s to the death of Eduard in 1916 - the music making of the family was at the centre of Habsburg Viennese society as it moved between dance hall, concert hall and theatre. The Strauss industry at its height was, he demonstrates, greater than any one of the individuals, with serious personal and domestic consequences including affairs, illness, rivalry and fraud. This zesty biography, spanning over a hundred years of history, brings the dynasty brilliantly to life across a large canvas as it offers fresh and revealing insights into the cultural life of Vienna as a whole.

Author: David Wyn Jones
ISBN-10: 1009276476
ISBN-13: 9781009276474
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/29/2023
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.69h x 6.69w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2024