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Oscar Straus

1870 - 1954

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Oscar Nathan Straus (6 March 1870 – 11 January 1954) was a Viennese composer of operettas, 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'. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oscar Straus has received more than 8,020 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Oscar Straus is the 413th most popular composer (down from 399th in 2019), the 383rd most popular biography from Austria (down from 352nd in 2019) and the 30th most popular Austrian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Oscar Straus ranks 413 out of 1,216Before him are André Jolivet, Johann van Beethoven, Maria Szymanowska, Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Joaquín Turina, and Giovanni Pacini. After him are Koichi Sugiyama, Emilio de' Cavalieri, Hugo Riemann, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Remo Giazotto, and Albert Lortzing.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Oscar Straus ranks 46Before him are Archduchess Margarete Sophie of Austria, E. M. Antoniadi, Lord Alfred Douglas, Archduchess Louise of Austria, Alexander Berkman, and Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austria. After him are Gustav Landauer, Leopold Godowsky, Marianne Weber, Michael Rostovtzeff, Princess Henriette of Belgium, and Vladimir Purishkevich. Among people deceased in 1954, Oscar Straus ranks 41Before him are Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Viktor Abakumov, Sadriddin Ayni, Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels, Ivan Ilyin, and Princess Margaret of Prussia. After him are Marianne Weber, Marius Jacob, Lionel Barrymore, Edwin Howard Armstrong, Wilhelm Schmidt, and Robert H. Jackson.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Oscar Straus ranks 383 out of 1,237Before him are Karl-Maria Kertbeny (1824), Agnes of Austria (1281), Maria Schicklgruber (1795), Viktor Schauberger (1885), Eduard Roschmann (1908), and Peter Fendi (1796). After him are Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1757), Willi Boskovsky (1909), Zoltán Tildy (1889), Archduke Charles Joseph of Austria (1649), Johann Nepomuk Karl, Prince of Liechtenstein (1724), and Jean Améry (1912).

Among COMPOSERS In Austria

Among composers born in Austria, Oscar Straus ranks 30Before him are Ludwig Ritter von Köchel (1800), Max Steiner (1888), Joseph Lanner (1801), Clemens Krauss (1893), Nikolaus I, Prince Esterházy (1714), and Johann Joseph Fux (1660). After him are Robert Stolz (1880), Georg Christoph Wagenseil (1715), Karl Michael Ziehrer (1843), Joseph Hellmesberger Jr. (1855), Ernst Krenek (1900), and Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (1620).