Austrian composer Johann Strauss II's "The Blue Danube" has, for many people, been synonymous with space travel since it was ...

To celebrate the 200th birthday of Johann Strauss II, the Vienna Tourist Board, in collaboration with Jung von Matt DONAU, ...

Strauss' “Blue Danube” waltz has finally made it into space, nearly a half-century after missing a ride on NASA's Voyagers.

To mark Johann Strauss II’s 200th birthday, Vienna is sending his iconic waltz The Blue Danube into space - decades after it ...

Vienna to beams Strauss's Blue Danube waltz into space to mark his 200th birthday ...

And from there, the waltz will be "transmitted in the form of electromagnetic waves", the Austrian astronomer said. "The Blue Danube" evokes the elegance of 19th‑century Vienna, which lives on ...

Typical of space’ – Like no other waltz by Strauss junior, “The Blue Danube” evokes the elegance of 19th-century imperial Vienna, which lives on in the city’s roaring ball season.

Why do so many young Austrians learn how to waltz and long to be debutantes at the Vienna Opera Ball? DW steps into the world of the Viennese waltz.The waltz was based on the Ländler, a folk ...