"Without the father there would be no son, not only biologically, but musically," says Professor Eduard Strauss, Johann II's great-grandnephew, who is showing me round the recently opened House of ...

Strauss shared his expertise with his cousins Chris Cramer and Matt Rattner, who co-founded the brewing company. "Karl was my great-grandmother's sister's son," Cramer explained. "My great ...

Johann Strauss Senior is known as 'the father of the waltz', though it was his son, 21 years his junior, who earned the title 'the Waltz King'. Strauss's mother died when he was seven and his father ...

Joseph Baermann Strauss was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, just ten years after the Civil War. Raised in an artistic family, Joseph loved poetry and hoped to pursue a career in the arts like his mother ...

As it happens, the Sunday of the World Cup final (July 14) was Strauss' son's 11th birthday. He took both him and his other son to Lord's, hanging out in the Sky Studio were Strauss was a pundit.

After his father abandoned the family for another woman, Strauss's mother Anna became a driving force behind the career of her eldest son, who kept "churning out music" to make a living.