Josef Strauss

the long version

A translation of the only biography ever published of Josef Strauss, second of the Strauss brothers, who played a major role in the development of the waltz as a musical form. It is written by an internationally acknowledged expert on the Strauss family, and gives the story of the personal and professional triumphs and tragedies of the composer, also describing the whole Strauss family and the elegant way of life in nineteenth-century Vienna.