The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-25

their fathers opposition. despite train
ing along another groove, found himself,
at his majority. not only a musician. but
a skilledsperformer leader and composer.
This came about from laws as inevitable
as gravitation, 'ansinnate love of mn sic,
which was fostered by the mother with
determination as great as her husbands. =,
All the more extraordinary was this sup
preston OF bis sons, because the elder
Strauss had himself gone though the very
same harsh experience. Born in Vienna In
1904, the sou OF an innkeeper, he heard so
much merry music on the violin that he
grew TO love melody But his father would
have none of it; he put him as an apron
tice to a Pe2sbfnaer,, terrible drudgery to
this mustc-mad boy, who ran away. But a
great vioinist brought him back and inter-
coded for him; and such leaps in music
did he take that he played viola n or
chestra at l6; and in 1926, when %. he
had his own. orchestra of sixteen. pro-
ducing his first work, Tauberl Waitzen;"
soon he had an orchestra of 200. In 1893
he reached the summit of his fame, N
Vienna; and his mastery was displayed in
his tours from metropolis to metropolis
of Europe.
Work of the Waltz King,
The waltz King" as he was acknowl-
edged to be, in his life of only 45 years,
produced 251 works, of which 1872 were
waltzes. "A gallops, 10 polkas, 81 quadriles.
cotillions Is marches and potpourris.
He elevated dance music.
Johann, his son, naturally loved music.
The first composition of the youth was his
"Erste Gedanke" He was only in his
sixth year when one day, seated at the
old-fas hioned piano, he fumbed about on
the keys till he discovered the melody that
he sought for his first waltz. The two
boys. Johann and Josef, became clever pi-
anists; but their father, though moved
to tears by their performances, was OBJ
durate against their adopting the musical
profession. Perhaps he had reasons which
have not been diVulged.
Wrote "a waltz at IL.
Johann is said to have been dismissed
from the technical school for singing in
lecture time. His mother secured MIN
music teacher, Drechsler. AT II, he wrote
a waltz. At 10, he conducted at DOM
mayors Casino, playing his own and his
fathers music, especially the "Lorelei."
His father was forcibly brought to the
Gardens, and an apparent reconciliation
with his son took place.
Hanslick, the musical critic of Vienna,
said of the younger Strauss: "The young
mans animal spirits so long repressed,
now began 70 foam over Favored by his
talent, intoxicated by his rapid successes,
petted by thefwomen, he passed his youth
in wild excitement, always productive, al
ways fresh and enterprising, always dar-
ing to the point of recklessness. In APP
pearance, he resembled his father, but
was handsomer, more refined and 'lore
modern in dress and air. His waltzes
combine the unmistakabie Strauss family
physiognomy with unique and original
qualities of their own"
Music On Cats.
He had a habit of writing whenevar-t the
inspiration came, by day or by night, and
he jotted down his compositions on cuffs
or collars. Some of his most popular
dancing music was thus composed.
ION one OCCASION" says ATonson, who
saw him in Paris, when he was playing,
his foot slipped and he fell, breaking mis-
violin. He Immediately took another, ard
went on with the waltz, losing only eight
bars of music" He received the Cross
of the Legion of Honor.f
In 1919, at his fathers death, he united
the two orchestras; some of his extraor-
binary triumphs We're in the Petropaulov-
ski Park, at st. Petersburg. In June, 1872,
by engagement of Gilmore, he conducted
the orchestra of 1000 musicians at our
great Peace Jubilee"
In 1871, at the instance of Offenbach, he
turned to opera music. He. had given up
to Eduard, ten years his junior the con-
ductorship of bands i'm which he had been
assisted by Josef, his Junior by two years,
until the latter's death in 1870.
Johann the younger, the Second Waltz
King" created 400 waltzes, polkas and
auadrilles; Josef produced 2SS works,
waltzes, polkas and other popular dance
music; Eduard's compositions are about
200 in number, waltzes and other dance
music The Strauss waltz music. there
fore. that of the father and his three
gifted sons, consists of more than thou
sand pieces Of cheerful dance music of an
elevated quality, which has added much.
as DR. Johnson might say, ITO the gayety
of nations -