Johann Strauss Year – "the Goddess of Reason" in Hildesheim: when the Taxpayers' Money Dance Waltzes

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That's how fast the 200th year of Johann's birth is coming to an end. In Vienna there was the "Gypsy baron" as a migration story and the "bat" as a ringing pie with Nazis. But the most beautiful thing came to an end. Not on the blue Danube, but in – Hildesheim.

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For the bicentenary of his birth here, with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, a florileg of the scores of "Schani", worthy successor of his father between revolutions of 1848 and the setting up of the symphonic waltz.