Save the Date

The exceptional composer wrote a total of 15 compositions for the world’s oldest “officially” mentioned ball, almost all of which were premiered by the master himself as conductor – at that time still in the Sofien Saal in Vienna – decades after the Congress of Vienna.

About the Strauss family and the Ball  of Legal Professionals

The Strauss family worked like a company for light music in Vienna in the 19th century. All four composing members of this family Johann Strauss I (1804 – 1849), Johann Strauss II (1825 – 1899), Josef Strauss (1827 – 1870) and Eduard Strauss I (1835 – 1916) dedicated dance compositions to the ‘gentlemen students of law at the University of Vienna’.

Johann Strauss I composed seven waltzes between 1842 and 1848, Josef Strauss composed six waltzes between 1862 and 1870 and Eduard Strauss I composed eleven waltzes and two polkas between 1866 and 1887 for this purpose.

Our jubilarian Johann Strauss II composed eleven waltzes and four polkas for lawyers’ balls between 1852 and 1871, including the Ball of Legal Professonals-Tänze Walzer op. 177, which will of course be played at the next Ball of Legal Professonals on 1 March of theanniversary year 2025!

All very Strauss!

Good entertainment,

Prof. Dr. Eduard Strauss

(Vice President of the Lawyers’ Association, great-grandnephew of Johann Strauss II and chairman of the “Vienna Institute for Strauss Research (WISF)”)

c. “Johann Strauss (Son) Complete Works in Reproduction of the Original Prints; Edited by Ernst Hilmar

I. Dance Music, Volume 3: Piano Versions of Opus 101 – 200 (Landscape Format Editions); published by Hans Schneider, Tutzing 1991”

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