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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. 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 Überbrettl cabaret. He went back to Vienna and began writing operettas, becoming a serious rival to Franz Lehár. When Lehár's popular The Merry Widow premiered in 1905, Straus was said to have remarked "Das kann ich auch!" (I can also do that!). In 1939, following the Nazi Anschluss, he fled to Paris, where he received the honour of a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur, and then to Hollywood. After the war, he returned to Europe, and settled at Bad Ischl, where he died. His grave is in the Bad Ischl Friedhof.

Straus' best-known works are Ein Walzertraum (A Waltz Dream), and The Chocolate Soldier (Der tapfere Soldat). The waltz arrangement from the former is probably his most enduring orchestral work. Among his most famous works is the theme from the 1950 film La Ronde.

Works

Operettas

• Die lustigen Nibelungen (The Merry Nibelungs) – 1904
• Zur indischen Witwe – 1905
• Hugdietrichs Brautfahrt (Hugdietrich's Honeymoon) – 1906
• Ein Walzertraum (A Waltz Dream) – 1907
• Der tapfere Soldat (The Gallant Soldier, The Chocolate Soldier) – 1908
• Didi – 1908
• Das Tal der Liebe – 1909
• Mein junger Herr (My Son John) – 1910
• Die kleine Freundin (My Little Friend) – 1911
• Der tapfere Cassian (The Brave Cassian) – 1912
• The Dancing Viennese – 1912
• Love and Laughter – 1913
• Rund um die Liebe – 1914
• Liebeszauber – 1916
• Eine Ballnacht – 1918
• Der letzte Walzer (The Last Waltz) – 1920
• Die Perlen der Cleopatra – 1923
• Die Teresina – 1925
• Die Königin – 1926
• Marietta – [1927 in French, 1928 in German]
• Die Musik kommt – 1928
• Eine Frau, die weiß, was sie will – 1932
• Drei Walzer (Three Waltzes) – 1935
• Ihr erster Walzer (revised version, Die Musik kommt) – 1950
• Bozena – 1952

Ballets

• Colombine – 1904
• Die Prinzessin von Tragant – 1912

Film scores

• A Lady's Morals – 1930
• Danube Love Song – 1931 (never released due to backlash against musicals)
• The Smiling Lieutenant – 1931
• The Southerner – 1932
• One Hour with You – 1932
• The Gentleman from Maxim's – 1933
• Frühlingsstimmen – 1934
• Land Without Music – 1935
• Make a Wish – 1935
• Sarajevo – 1940
• La Ronde – 1950

References

Further reading

• Grun, Bernard: Prince of Vienna: the Life, Times and Melodies of Oscar Straus (London, 1955).
• Gänzl, Kurt. The Encyclopedia of Musical Theatre (3 volumes). New York: Schirmer Books, 2001.
• Traubner, Richard. Operetta: A Theatrical History. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1983.

External links

• List of Straus's stage works, with information and links
• List of stage works, operone.de
• Oscar Straus at IMDb
• Free scores by Oscar Straus at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)

На других языках

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[de] Oscar Straus (Komponist)

Oscar Straus, eigentlich Oscar Nathan Strauss (* 6. März 1870 in Wien; † 11. Januar 1954 in Bad Ischl), war ein österreichischer Operettenkomponist. Er gehört neben Franz Lehár, Leo Fall und Emmerich Kálmán zu den bedeutendsten Komponisten der sogenannten Silbernen Operettenära.

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- [en] Oscar Straus (composer)

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[es] Oscar Straus

Oscar Strauss, que se convirtió en Oscar Straus para no ser confundido con los músicos de la familia Strauss, con la que no tenía ninguna relación, como tampoco con el compositor alemán Richard Strauss, fue un compositor austriaco nacido en Viena el 6 de marzo de 1870 y fallecido en Bad Ischl el 11 de enero de 1954.

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[ru] Штраус, Оскар

О́скар Штра́ус (нем. Oscar Straus, 6 марта 1870, Вена — 11 января 1954, Бад-Ишль) — австрийский композитор, получивший известность благодаря своим опереттам (венской школы), музыке к кинофильмам и многочисленным песням. Почти однофамилец, но не родственник Иоганна Штрауса (последняя буква в немецком написании фамилии у них различается).

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