Oscar strauss biography

Viennese composer (1870-1954)

Oscar Nathan Straus (6 March 1870 – 11 January 1954) was a Viennese composer of operettas, film scores, and songs.

He also wrote about 500 cabaret songs, chamber music, and orchestral and choral works.

Oscar strauss biography wikipedia

His original name was actually Strauss,^{[1][failed verification]} but for professional purposes he deliberately omitted the final 's'.^{[citation needed]} He wished not to be associated with the musical Strauss family of Vienna.

However, he did follow the advice of Johann Strauss II in 1898 about abandoning the prospective lure of writing waltzes for the more lucrative business of writing for the theatre.^{[citation needed]}

The son of a Jewish^[2] family, he studied music in Berlin under Max Bruch, and became an orchestral conductor, working at the Überbrettlcabaret.

He went back to Vienna and began writing operettas, becoming a serious rival to Franz Lehár. When Lehár's popu