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Oscar Straus

Born: 6th March 1870, Vienna, Austria

Died: 11th January 1954, Bad Ischl, Austria

Nationality: Austrian

Oscar Nathan Straus was a Viennese composer of operettas and film scores and songs. He also wrote about 500 cabaret songs, chamber music, and orchestral and choral works. 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 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.

The son of a Jewish family, he studied music in Berlin under Max Bruch, and became an orchestral conductor, working at the Überbrettl cabaret.

Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Straus_(composer)

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