Johann Strauss II (1825–1899) is known as the 'Waltz King'. He was the greatest of all Viennese dance music composers. Life and Music The young Strauss had started composing and directing his own ...

In the musical scores of the time the composer created his own very characteristic language and individual form of musical beauty as a result of which he was called a 'contemporary classic' even ...

George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) was a German-British baroque composer, famous for his operas ... Serse (Xerxes), and other works often based on classical stories. In the 1730s and 1740s Handel ...