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Johann Strauss was 【小题1】 Austrian composer of light music，particularly dance music and operettas (轻歌剧). He was born in Vienna in 1825. Although his father didn't want him 【小题2】 (become) a musician, Strauss studied the violin 【小题3】 (secret) when he was a child. When his father discovered his son was practicing on a violin one day, he gave him a beating, 【小题4】 (say) that he was going to beat the music out of the boy. But that didn't prevent the boy from becoming one of the greatest 【小题5】 (composer) of all time. He wrote his first waltz at six. At the age of 19, he decided to devote himself to 【小题6】 (write) music. He formed his own orchestra and made a successful tour to Europe and soon became famous. The emperor of Austria was so 【小题7】 (please) with his music that he appointed him the conductor at the court balls of Vienna. It was for these occasions that he wrote some of his most popular waltzes, among 【小题8】 was the wellknown favorite TheBlueDanube. In all，the talented Johann Strauss wrote more than 500 masterpieces. In his lifetime, he was known 【小题9】 the Waltz King, and was largely responsible for the【小题10】 (popular) of the waltz in Vienna during the 19th century.
