Contents: Tales from the Vienna Woods * Beautiful Blue Danube * Thousand and One Nights * Wine, Women and Song * Roses from the South * Sweetheart Waltz * Voice of Spring * Artist's Life * You and You from Die Fledermaus * Vienna Life * Kiss Waltz * Emperor Waltz.

A fascinating and insightful biography of one of the greatest composers of all time, Johann Strauss. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Zoë Alexis Lang explores constructions of twentieth-century Austrian identity through an examination of commentary on Johann Strauss, Jr's waltzes.