Eduard Strauss I – Two Tours of America with the Strauss Orchestra
Norbert Rubey
During a concert tour of Germany Eduard Strauss got to know the American concert agent David
Blakely. After lengthy negotiations a contract was signed at the end of February 1890: concerts and
matinees were to be given in more than 70 towns and cities in the north-east of the USA and Canada
with the Strauss Orchestra (42 musicians and three assistants) between May and December 1890. In
particular, regular events were to be held on the newly opened Madison Square Garden in New York. (English full text)
German full text on ORF Topos: https://topos.orf.at/straussmania-eduard-strauss-usa100
Eduard Strauss II –
Another Viennese Kapellmeister in America and even in Japan
Eduard Strauss
Eduard Strauss I. (1835 – 1916) disbanded the Strauss Chapel, founded by his father in 1827, on the following day, February 13, 1901, after giving his last concert in New York on February 12, 1901. Eduard Strauss I was 65 years old at the time and retired to his apartment at Reichsratsstraße 9 (1010 Vienna). Some 65 years later, in the fall of 1966, his grandson, the conductor Eduard Strauss II (1910 – 1969), embarked on an extensive tour of the USA and Canada with the specially founded Vienna Johann Strauss Orchestra. (German full text)
