Today, 126 years ago, on June 3, 1899 (April 25, 1899 in the lunar calendar), Austrian musician Johann Strauss Jr. died. Johann Strauss, a famous Austrian composer, conductor, violinist and pianist. He loved music since childhood, and began to compose waltz at the age of 7. He wrote more than 400 pieces of music in his life, including waltz, march and other musical genres, among which the Blue Danube, Vienna Forest Narration and The Sound of Spring are the most famous. These works are beautiful and full of life, reflecting the people's thoughts and feelings of loving life and optimism, and are deeply loved by the people. Therefore, he is called "the king of waltz". Johann Strauss shares his father's namesake, and both are world-renowned for writing waltz music. For the sake of distinction, people add the words "old" and "small" in front of their names respectively. Johann Strauss Sr. is known as the "father of waltz". Johann Strauss, born on 25 October 1825 in Vienna. Old Johann Strauss wanted his son to become a banker instead of a musician in the future. Nevertheless, he learned the violin secretly from an early age. Ironically, his violin teacher was none other than Franz Amon, principal violin of his father's orchestra. However, his father found that little John had "wasted" his time on music one day. According to Johann Strauss Jr. himself, the next scene was quite terrible, and his father had no interest in his musical ideals. However, old John didn't mean to make the family at odds. He just thought that life as a musician was too harsh, and he didn't want his son to live like him in the future. Finally, when Little John was 17 years old, Old John ran away from home with his mistress Emily Trambusch. In this way, Little John can concentrate on the music career he loves. After Johann Strauss Sr., Johann Jr. learned counterpoint and harmonic techniques from Professor Joachim Hoffmann, who ran a private music school. While studying harmony with conductor Joseph Dreschler, his talent was greatly recognized. Similarly, he was highly praised by his other violin teacher, Anton Coleman, a ballet tutor at the Vienna Court Theatre. Thanks to the high praise of these people, he successfully obtained unwritten permission from authorities to perform in public. Then he quickly recruited enough people to expand his orchestra. However, due to his father's great influence and power, almost no theater offered John Jr. a contract to perform. Eventually, Little Johann finally convinced Vienna's Casino Domayer to give him a debut. The local media frantically reported the "Strauss family civil war" between father and son. Old John himself was extremely annoyed at his son's disobedience to his wishes for his son, and in a fit of rage he decided never to perform on stage at the Domayère Casino in his lifetime, although it was a testimony to the brilliant success of his many early performances. John used his connections to prevent various entertainment venues from hiring his son's band to perform, but the clever John began to gradually cultivate an audience different from his father. He turned his attention to young people and nationalists, and composed early musical works such as The Young Men of Vienna, The Serbian March, and The Plucked Polka. At the World Expo in Vienna, Austria in 1873, Johann Strauss Jr. played the world-popular Waltz of the Blue Danube. There is an interesting story about the creation of The Blue Danube. Once Johann Strauss came home and changed into a dirty shirt. His wife found that the shirt had staff written all over the sleeves. Knowing that this was recorded by her husband's sudden inspiration, she put the shirt aside. When she came back a few minutes later, she was about to give it to her husband, only to find that the shirt was missing. It turns out that at the moment she left, the washerwoman took it away along with other dirty laundry. She didn't know the washerwoman's residence, so she searched everywhere in the car. After running for a long time, she didn't find her whereabouts. In her desperate moment, fortunately, an old woman in the hotel led her to the laundry woman's cabin. She dashed in and saw the washerwoman throwing the shirt into a bucket full of soapy water. She hastily grabbed the washerwoman's arm, grabbed the dirty clothes, and saved the precious music score from her sleeve, which was Johann Strauss's immortal masterpiece "The Blue Danube" waltz. Strauss's creative activities can be roughly divided into three periods. The first period was before 1863. During this period, he basically followed the pattern of Viennese waltz, but he has increased the expressive force of music in his works. In 1848, he visited Romania and gave concerts, during which he overthrew the Austrian consul at the instigation of the local residents. During the revolution in Vienna, he was the captain of the National Military Band, conducting the Marseillaise and his own revolutionary march and revolutionary waltz. His reputation grew after the revolution. An accomplished first tour abroad began in 1851. Since 1853, Strauss served as the music conductor of the court ball. The second period was from 1864 to 1870. At this time, his creation has matured, and he has created a large number of famous waltzes that are still widely circulated today, such as "The Blue Danube" and "The Story of the Vienna Forest". From 1863 to 1870, he served as leader of the court ball band of the Austro-Hungarian Imperial Family and the Royal House. In 1870, Strauss, who was at the peak of honor as a composer of waltz and dance music (he had written about 340 waltz and other dance music at that time) turned to the creation of stage music. He wrote seventeen operettas, an opera, and a ballet, most of which failed because of their poor operatic libretts, or quickly vanished as half-failures. The third period was from 1871 to 1899. Although Strauss wrote the famous Southern Rose Waltz, Spring Sound Waltz, Emperor Waltz, etc., he was mainly engaged in operetta creation. In the nearly 30 years since 1871, he wrote 16 operettas one after another. In 1872, Strauss's trip to America was a sensation. In 1894, when Strauss celebrated the 50th anniversary of his artistic activities, he received congratulations from all over the world and certificates awarding him the title of honorary member, all of which showed that this was a truly triumphant grand event. On June 3, 1899, Johann Strauss Jr. died in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, at the age of 73. The people of Vienna held a grand funeral for 100,000 people.