"Chambermaid Bazungas and Ghost Smalltalk": Strauss & Strauss

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🗓️ 16 March 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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SO MANY STRAUSSES (STRAUSSI?), SO LITTLE TIME. Yessss in this Strauss-centric episode we discuss the life and times of Johann Strauss II and Richard Strauss - unrelated by blood, but both rather famous for composing some classical bangers. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Hello! Hello, I'm Kelly Harlock and I'm Sasha Kelly. And you're listening to that classical
0:18.8	podcast. Yes you are and what are we going to talk about today? So cheery, I love it.
0:23.3	Today, we're going to talk about two people called Strauss,
0:26.8	who had nothing to do with each other.
0:28.2	They weren't related at all.
0:30.1	All will be revealed soon enough.
0:32.2	So which Strauss are you talking about?
0:34.0	I'm going to talk about a chap called Johann Strauss,
0:37.0	but we actually refer to him as Johann Strauss the younger
0:40.0	because he was a member of a very famous waltzing family one might say.
0:44.8	I know nothing about him so I think that's the perfect time to ask you to start your 60 second
0:52.3	bio.
0:52.9	Are you ready?
0:53.6	I'm ready.
0:54.1	Are you steady?
0:55.1	Yes I am.
0:56.1	Go.
0:57.1	Johann Strauss the younger was born in October 1825 in Vienna, Austria.
0:59.7	He was named after his dad, Johann Strauss, who was a massively famous composer at the time but who refused to let
1:03.3	baby Strauss become a composer himself. So Strauss the younger had to study music in secret and began his career as a bank clock. Then when he was
1:08.9	17 his dad abandoned his entire family to elope with his mistress. So everyone was like, thank God for that.
1:13.2	And baby Strauss and all his brothers started voraciously studying music with the support of their
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