Thursday, February 16, 2023

February 16 - Johann Strauss III (The Musical Birthday Series, 4th Annual Cycle)

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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