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Oscar Nathan Straus (6 March 1870 – 11 January 1954) was a Viennese
Vienna

Vienna is the Capital of Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million...
 composer of operetta
Operetta

Operetta is a genre of light opera, light in terms both of music and subject matter. It is also closely related, in English-language works, to forms of musical theatre....
s and film scores and songs. He also wrote about 500 cabaret songs, chamber music, and orchestral and choral works. His original name was actually Strauss, but for professional purposes he deliberately omitted the final 's', since he wished not to be associated with the musical Strauss family
Johann Strauss I

Johann Strauss I , born in Vienna, was an Austrian Romantic music composer famous for his waltzes, and for popularizing them alongside Josef Lanner, thereby setting the foundations for his sons to carry on his musical dynasty....
 of Vienna. However, he did follow the advice of Johann Strauss II
Johann Strauss II

Johann Strauss II was an Austrian composer famous for having written over 500 waltzes, polkas, March , and galops. He was the son of the composer Johann Strauss I, and brother of composers Josef Strauss and Eduard Strauss....
 in 1898 about abandoning the prospective lure of writing waltz
Waltz

The waltz is a ballroom dance and folk dance dance in Time signature, performed primarily in closed position....
es for the more lucrative business of writing for the theatre.

He studied music in Berlin
Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
 under Max Bruch
Max Bruch

Max Christian Friedrich Bruch also known as Max Karl August Bruch, was a German Romantic music composer and Conducting who wrote over 200 works, including three violin concertos, one of which is a staple of the violin repertoire....
, and became an orchestral conductor, working at the Überbrettl cabaret
Cabaret

Cabaret is a form of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theatre, distinguished mainly by the performance venue — a restaurant or nightclub with a stage for performances and the audience sitting at tables watching the performance being introduced by a master of ceremonies, or MC....
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Oscar Nathan Straus (6 March 1870 – 11 January 1954) was a Viennese
Vienna

Vienna is the Capital of Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million...
 composer of operetta
Operetta

Operetta is a genre of light opera, light in terms both of music and subject matter. It is also closely related, in English-language works, to forms of musical theatre....
s and film scores and songs. He also wrote about 500 cabaret songs, chamber music, and orchestral and choral works. His original name was actually Strauss, but for professional purposes he deliberately omitted the final 's', since he wished not to be associated with the musical Strauss family
Johann Strauss I

Johann Strauss I , born in Vienna, was an Austrian Romantic music composer famous for his waltzes, and for popularizing them alongside Josef Lanner, thereby setting the foundations for his sons to carry on his musical dynasty....
 of Vienna. However, he did follow the advice of Johann Strauss II
Johann Strauss II

Johann Strauss II was an Austrian composer famous for having written over 500 waltzes, polkas, March , and galops. He was the son of the composer Johann Strauss I, and brother of composers Josef Strauss and Eduard Strauss....
 in 1898 about abandoning the prospective lure of writing waltz
Waltz

The waltz is a ballroom dance and folk dance dance in Time signature, performed primarily in closed position....
es for the more lucrative business of writing for the theatre.

He studied music in Berlin
Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
 under Max Bruch
Max Bruch

Max Christian Friedrich Bruch also known as Max Karl August Bruch, was a German Romantic music composer and Conducting who wrote over 200 works, including three violin concertos, one of which is a staple of the violin repertoire....
, and became an orchestral conductor, working at the Überbrettl cabaret
Cabaret

Cabaret is a form of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theatre, distinguished mainly by the performance venue — a restaurant or nightclub with a stage for performances and the audience sitting at tables watching the performance being introduced by a master of ceremonies, or MC....
. He went back to Vienna and began writing operettas, becoming a serious rival to Franz Lehár
Franz Lehár

Franz Leh?r , known in Hungarian as Leh?r Ferenc, was an Austrian composer of Hungarian people descent, mainly known for his operettas....
. When Lehár's popular The Merry Widow
The Merry Widow

The Merry Widow is an operetta by the Austria-Hungary composer Franz Leh?r. The Librettos, Viktor L?on and Leo Stein , based the story — concerning a rich widow, Hanna Glawari, and her attempt to find a husband ? on an 1861 comedy play, L'attach? d'ambassade by Henri Meilhac....
 premiered in 1905, Straus was said to have remarked "Das kann ich auch!" (I can also do that!). In 1939, following the Nazi
Nazism

Nazism, officially National Socialism , refers to the ideology and practices of the National Socialist German Workers? Party under Adolf Hitler, and the policies adopted by the dictatorial government of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945....
 Anschluss
Anschluss

The ' , also known as the ', was the 1938 unification of Austria into Gro?deutschland by Nazi Germany.Austria was merged into Nazi Germany on 12 March 1938....
, he fled to Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
 and then to Hollywood. After the war, he returned to Europe, and settled at Bad Ischl
Bad Ischl

Bad Ischl is a spa town in Austria. It lies in the southern part of Upper Austria, at the Traun River in the centre of the Salzkammergut region....
, where he died.

Straus' best-known works are Ein Walzertraum
Ein Walzertraum

Ein Walzertraum is an operetta by Oscar Straus with a German language libretto by Leopold Jacobson and Felix D?rmann, based on the novella Nur der Prinzgemahl by Hans M?ller-Einingen from his 1905 book Buch der Abenteuer ....
 (A Waltz Dream), and The Chocolate Soldier
The Chocolate Soldier

The Chocolate Soldier is an operetta composed in 1908 by Oscar Straus based on George Bernard Shaw's 1894 play, Arms and the Man. The German language libretto was by Rudolf Bernauer and Leopold Jacobson....
 (Der tapfere Soldat). The waltz arrangement from the former is probably his most enduring orchestral work.

Works


Operettas

  • Die lustigen Nibelungen (The Merry Nibelungs) – 1904
  • Zur indischen Witwe – 1905
  • Hugdietrichs Brautfahrt (Hugdietrich's Honeymoon) – 1906
  • Ein Walzertraum
    Ein Walzertraum

    Ein Walzertraum is an operetta by Oscar Straus with a German language libretto by Leopold Jacobson and Felix D?rmann, based on the novella Nur der Prinzgemahl by Hans M?ller-Einingen from his 1905 book Buch der Abenteuer ....
     (A Waltz Dream) – 1907
  • Der tapfere Soldat (The Gallant Soldier, The Chocolate Soldier
    The Chocolate Soldier

    The Chocolate Soldier is an operetta composed in 1908 by Oscar Straus based on George Bernard Shaw's 1894 play, Arms and the Man. The German language libretto was by Rudolf Bernauer and Leopold Jacobson....
    ) – 1908
  • Didi – 1908
  • Das Tal der Liebe – 1909
  • Mein junger Herr (My Son John) – 1910
  • Der tapfere Cassian (The Brave Cassian) – 1912
  • The Dancing Viennese – 1912
  • Love and Laughter – 1913
  • Rund um die Liebe – 1914
  • Liebeszauber – 1916
  • Der letzte Walzer – 1920
  • Die Musik kommt – 1928
  • Eine Frau, die weiß, was sie will – 1932
  • Drei Walzer – 1935
  • Ihr erster Walzer (revised version, Die Musik kommt) – 1950
  • Bozena – 1952


Ballets

  • Colombine – 1904
  • Die Prinzessin von Tragant – 1912


Film Scores

  • Jenny Lind
    Jenny Lind

    Johanna Maria Lind , better known as Jenny Lind, was a Sweden opera singer, often known as the "Swedish Nightingale". One of the best regarded singers of the 19th century, she is known for her performances in soprano roles in Sweden and the rest of Europe, and for an extraordinarily popular concert tour of America beginning in 1...
     – 1930
  • Danube Love Song – 1931 (never released due to backlash against musicals)
  • The Smiling Lieutenant
    The Smiling Lieutenant

    The Smiling Lieutenant is a 1931 in film Paramount Pictures film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Made in the Pre-Code era, it was written by Samson Raphaelson and Ernest Vajda, from the operetta Ein Walzertraum by Oscar Straus , which in turn was based on the novel Nur der Prinzgemahl by Hans M?ller-Einigen....
     – 1932
  • The Southerner – 1932
  • One Hour With You
    One Hour with You

    One Hour with You is a 1932 in film film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was written by Samson Raphaelson and his assistant Sam Bellas from the Lothar Schmidt play Only a Dream, and was directed by George Cukor and Ernst Lubitsch....
     – 1932
  • Die Herren von Maxim – 1933
  • Frühlingsstimmen – 1934
  • Land Without Music – 1935
  • Make a Wish – 1935
  • La ronde
    La Ronde

    La Ronde may refer to:*La Ronde , an amusement park in Montreal, Quebec, Canada*La Ronde, Charente-Maritime, a commune in the Charente-Maritime d?partement, in France...
     – 1950


See also

  • List of Austrian Jews
    List of Austrian Jews

    Austria first became a center of Jewish learning during the 13th century. However, increasing anti-semitism led to the expulsion of the Jews in 1669. Following formal readmission in 1848, a sizable Jewish community developed once again, contributing strongly to Austrian culture....
  • List of Jews


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