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Makers of Dance Music
January 11, 1917 issue

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Composer Johann Strauss's themes are real melodies, and the amazing fertility of his creative fancy is evidenced by the fact that each of his four hundred waltzes contains several leading melodies, owing to the unwise structure of the waltz form, on the needless melodic wastefulness of which the eminent Austrian critic, Eduard Hansliek, used to comment. Besides his waltzes and other dances for the concert hall, Strauss composed more than a dozen operettas, which are also streaked with veins of fascinating melody. As a matter of course, the charming dance melodies in the operettas of Strauss were promptly transferred to the ballrooms.

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STRAUSS, Johann, 1804-1849; MUSICIANS; WALTZES; DANCE music; OPERETTA; MUSIC
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