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Eduard Strauss

1835 - 1916

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Eduard "Edi" Strauss (15 March 1835 – 28 December 1916) was an Austrian composer who, together with his brothers Johann Strauss II and Josef Strauss made up the Strauss musical dynasty. He was the son of Johann Strauss I and Maria Anna Streim. The family dominated the Viennese light music world for decades, creating many waltzes and polkas for many Austrian nobility as well as dance-music enthusiasts around Europe. He was affectionately known in his family as 'Edi'. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Eduard Strauss is the 162nd most popular composer (up from 188th in 2019), the 159th most popular biography from Austria (up from 184th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Austrian Composer.

Eduard Strauss is most famous for being a composer of waltzes.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Eduard Strauss ranks 162 out of 1,451. Before him are Ottorino Respighi, George Enescu, César Cui, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Enrique Granados, and Iannis Xenakis. After him are Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, Kurt Weill, Adrian Willaert, William Byrd, Karol Szymanowski, and Hugo Wolf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Eduard Strauss ranks 16. Before him are Giosuè Carducci, Andrew Carnegie, Demetrius Vikelas, Samuel Butler, Henryk Wieniawski, and César Cui. After him are Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Fukuzawa Yukichi, William Stanley Jevons, Nikolai Rubinstein, Alexander Agassiz, and Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern. Among people deceased in 1916, Eduard Strauss ranks 28. Before him are Hiram Maxim, Ivan Franko, Helmuth von Moltke the Younger, Charles de Foucauld, Karl Schwarzschild, and Enrique Granados. After him are Émile Verhaeren, Max Reger, Vilhelm Hammershøi, Elisabeth of Wied, Percival Lowell, and Nedeljko Čabrinović.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Eduard Strauss ranks 159 out of 1,424. Before him are Maria Leopoldina of Austria (1797), Frederick the Fair (1289), Franz Stangl (1908), Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (1718), Albert VII, Archduke of Austria (1559), and Nikola IV Zrinski (1508). After him are Émile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865), Hermann Broch (1886), Leopold III, Duke of Austria (1351), Ingeborg Bachmann (1926), Rudolf I of Bohemia (1281), and Fritz Kreisler (1875).

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Among COMPOSERS In Austria

Among composers born in Austria, Eduard Strauss ranks 14. Before him are Anton Webern (1883), Alban Berg (1885), Carl Czerny (1791), Alma Mahler (1879), Josef Strauss (1827), and Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart (1791). After him are Émile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865), Michael Haydn (1737), Anna Maria Mozart (1720), Johann Joseph Fux (1660), Johann Georg Albrechtsberger (1736), and Ludwig Minkus (1826).

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