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Johann Strauss III (16 February 1866 – 9 January 1939) was a composer and conductor. He was the grandson of Johann Strauss.
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Its public reaction [to his operetta] bordered on utter dislike, and music critics called
for the distraught composer to reassess himself and to appear under a pseudonym, in order not to tarnish the name of his famous relatives. -- Wikipedia
n 1903, he elevated the Strauss family to a new age of development when the Deutsche Grammophon AG of Germany recorded his conducting of the Johann Strauss Orchestra on eight single-sided records of works by his family. -- Wikipedia
Although, perhaps, it seems absurd.
There was a Johann Strauss the Third.
He tried his luck upon the stage,
(The family name was all the rage),
But critics castigated him,
Suggesting that a pseudonym,
(If he should ever write some more)
Should be imprinted on the score.
(It is a fact that good genetics
Don't protect us from aesthetics.)
He took the hint, he turned a page,
And entered the recording age.
I fondly hope he was rewarded
For family waltzes he recorded.
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