Johann Strauss II (German: "Johann Strauss (son)"; in English also Johann S… Read Full Bio ↴Johann Strauss II (German: "Johann Strauss (son)"; in English also Johann Strauss the Younger, Johann Strauss Jr., Johann Sebastian Strauss) (October 25, 1825 – June 3, 1899) was an Austrian composer known especially for his waltzes, such as The Blue Danube. The (in German) often used "Strauß" form is wrong, since he always wrote his name with "ss" and never with "ß".
Son of the composer Johann Strauss I, and brother to the composers Josef Strauss and Eduard Strauss, Johann II was the most famous of the family. According to the The Blue Danube Songfacts, his father did not wish him to become a composer, but rather a banker. Nevertheless, Strauss Junior studied the violin secretly as a child and when his father discovered his son secretly practicing the instrument one day, he gave him a severe whipping, saying that he was going to beat the music out of the boy. Fortunately, this did not discourage the budding musician.
He was known in his lifetime as "the waltz king," and the popularity of the waltz in Vienna through the 19th century is due in large part to him. He became the "waltz king" by his revolutionary elevation of the waltz from lowly peasant dance to sparkling entertainment for the royal Hapsburg court. Not only did he revolutionize the waltz, but his work enjoyed greater fame than his predecessors such as his father and Josef Lanner. Some of his polkas and marches are also well known, as is his operetta Die Fledermaus.
More recently, there is a concert broadcast on television and radio to many countries worldwide "The New Year Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra". This concert is a celebration of the music of the Strauss family, and has also become a traditional way to see in the New Year. This concert is played live each year in the morning of January 1 in Vienna, Austria. Due to the worldwide popularity of the event, which is always a packed venue, tickets are drawn by lottery if you want to attend the concert.
Each year at this concert a different conductor is chosen and some pick a general theme of that days concert. Among such themes of recent years were the launching of the European currency the Euro, and the expansion of the European Union.
Son of the composer Johann Strauss I, and brother to the composers Josef Strauss and Eduard Strauss, Johann II was the most famous of the family. According to the The Blue Danube Songfacts, his father did not wish him to become a composer, but rather a banker. Nevertheless, Strauss Junior studied the violin secretly as a child and when his father discovered his son secretly practicing the instrument one day, he gave him a severe whipping, saying that he was going to beat the music out of the boy. Fortunately, this did not discourage the budding musician.
He was known in his lifetime as "the waltz king," and the popularity of the waltz in Vienna through the 19th century is due in large part to him. He became the "waltz king" by his revolutionary elevation of the waltz from lowly peasant dance to sparkling entertainment for the royal Hapsburg court. Not only did he revolutionize the waltz, but his work enjoyed greater fame than his predecessors such as his father and Josef Lanner. Some of his polkas and marches are also well known, as is his operetta Die Fledermaus.
More recently, there is a concert broadcast on television and radio to many countries worldwide "The New Year Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra". This concert is a celebration of the music of the Strauss family, and has also become a traditional way to see in the New Year. This concert is played live each year in the morning of January 1 in Vienna, Austria. Due to the worldwide popularity of the event, which is always a packed venue, tickets are drawn by lottery if you want to attend the concert.
Each year at this concert a different conductor is chosen and some pick a general theme of that days concert. Among such themes of recent years were the launching of the European currency the Euro, and the expansion of the European Union.
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- 1:00 MGM's lion has roared and intro song has played with intro Hollywood Bowl
- 0:45 produced by Fred Quimby
- 0:40 Tom conducted intro song till end
- 0:15 Audience clapping and then Tom start the performance
0:00 Tom starts his conducting
0:25 Jerry is coming out from hole
0:34 Jerry is acting like tom
0:43 Tom hits Jerry with baton but failed
1:15, 1:20, 1:27, 1:30 Jerry appears from tom's arm
1:35 Tom hits Jerry like cue ball and Jerry has bounced of from composer table to harp magnificently
1:39 Jerry has stay above harp already
2:30 Jerry is angry
2:45 Tom and Jerry dance together
3:20 Jerry spins Tom and then Tom has double bassed by cat band
3:40 Tom smashs Jerry and throw Jerry into sousaphone
3:57 Jerry has honked inside tuba
4:18 Tom hits Jerry like cue ball again
4:51 Tom uses Jerry's baton as toothspick
4:56 Jerry breaks Tom's baton but Tom has new one and put out his tongue
5:19 Jerry adds wheel to Tom's stage
5:32 Jerry pushes Tom's stage
5:46 Tom is crashed!
6:42 Jerry replaces Tom's position
6:51 Jerry's coat has torn by Tom
6:55 Jerry was hit by cat band with cymbal
7:14 Jerry's revenge is started. He put out band of cat slowly
7:44 Tom uses multiplaying skill
8:10 Ending song
8:15 Jerry get clapped by audience
8:20 Tom falls to understage
8:23 The End title has appeared
8:28 An M.G.M. Cartoon Tom & Jerry made in hollywood USA has appeared
8:33 Black Screen
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@emilekanazi5737
Don't you mean hello tom and jerry lovers
@johnshannon2314
I love both... the sound is better here then the cartoon lol
@weenieboi9824
Pretty kek my dude
@ingemayodon5128
Où est Wagner??
@klauskaufmann5745
Ja.Selbstverständig.
@yannickdrmda5295
There is no wrong way to be introduced to this music. The fact that a pop culture monument like Tom & Jerry gave childhood memories to so many people with this music is beautiful !
@KhanjoOfEthiopia
honestly, introducing new generations to classics in a way that isn't just a boring fetishization of the past is god's work
@DavidRice111
@@KhanjoOfEthiopia Take care flinging GOD's name about casually.
@thebenwilbert
I too was introduced to this song from Tom and Jerry, but also from Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games on the DS. I once believed that Nintendo and SEGA got a license to use this soundtrack from Cartoon Network. Turns out neither company actually owns it :/