Previous posts for February 16th are here: Alec Wilder (2020), Sonny Bono (2021), and Johann Strauss III (2022)
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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.
Life Learning
In response to his only stage work, the operetta Katze und Maus 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. – adapted from Wikipedia
When the third Johann Struass
Wrote his Katze und Maus
It was such a disaster
That the mournful young master
Turned a new page
And rejected the stage.
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