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Oscar Straus (6 March 1870 - 11 January 1954) was a Viennese composer of operettas. An anecdote states that his original name was actually Strauss, but for professional purposes he deliberately omitted the final 's', since he wished not to be associated with the illustrious 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.

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 and then to Hollywood. After the war, he returned to Europe, and settled at Bad Ischl, where he died.

Straus's 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.

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
Das Buch der Abenteuer - 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
Der tapfere Cassian (The Brave Cassian) - 1912
The Dancing Viennese - 1912
Love and Laughter - 1913
Rund um die Liebe - 1914
Liebeszauber - 1916
Der Favorit - 1916
Der letzte Walzer - 1920
Die Musik kommt - 1928
Eine Frau, die Weiß, was sie will - 1932
Drei Walzer - 1935
Ihr erster Walzer (revised version, Die Musik kommt) - 1950
Bozena - 1952

Ballets

Colombine - 1904
Die Prinzessin von Tragant - 1912

Film Scores

Jenny Lind - 1930
The Smiling Lieutenant - 1932
The Southerner - 1932
One hour with You - 1932
Die Herren von Maxim - 1933
Frühlingsstimmen - 1934
Land Without Music - 1935
Make a Wish - 1935
La ronde - 1950

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Musicians - Oscar Straus

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