Johann Strauss II - The Blue Danube Waltz
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- "The Blue Danube" is the common English title of "An der schönen, blauen Donau", Op. 314 (German for "By the Beautiful Blue Danube"), a waltz by the Austrian composer Johann Strauss II, composed in 1866.
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I remember first hearing this as a young child.now,age 70,I still love it.
70?
You Are A Legend My Good Sir !
FLOYD LAMPINEN yup, the real music has no age :)
+Ace132 I once saw a guy comment on a Beethoven's Ninth Symphony who said he was nearing 80.
+Ace132 My grandfathers are on facebook :/
The very beginning of this song tells you how beautiful the rest will be.
Astro Jesus Best comment ever
Came for the music stayed for the mustache
😂👍 boi
came ON the mustache.
It is indeed a most fabulous mustache.
Fun fact a mustache is made out of human hair just like a beard or mustache
No shit. What did you think it was made of
*insert reference to literally every space scene ever here*
Or explosions
Pirates of the Caribbean
maxcandostuff son of a mask
Or jellyfishing
Simpsons
I played this on the piano at my abuelo's request and can see a twinkle in his eye.. miss my grandpa..
good for you you have a beautiful heart playing that beautiful music for your grandpa.
My pleasure.. I'm happy you've enjoyed my channel...
Woah twelve years ago.....HOW BLOODY OLD IS UA-cam AND THE ENTERNET
@@Starvaze older than you I presume
Have always loved this waltz. Am a great rock music fan but can still appreciate the classics as well.
Listening to this while orbiting earth.
lol
LOLOLOL
XD
Hello Octopus 🐙
Real peace you can get.
maybe the most magnificent song of all time
I absolutely agree. There is something about this song that really makes it feel like it it humanity's absolute peak in terms of elegance.
paberry007 couldn't have said it better
+realcygnus (pssst, it's not a song) but I agree
Oh my god, I found it. I finally found it after 15 years. My soul is shedding tears of joy right now....
It took me only a year though.
We often asked our music teacher in 3rd grade (1952) to play this for us. One of our very faves!
There's nothing better than classical music.
I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS SONG FOR FOREVER
YES I HAVE BEEN DOING THE SAME THING
The next time Disney makes a _Fantasia_ movie, this needs to be in it. NO EXCUSES.
EVA_Unit_4A and it needs to be SPACE THEMED!
@@masonsykes2240 SPAAAAAAACE WHAAAAAAAALES
Fuck disney
@@lucaslaino7292 Yeay Disney will just put a stain on a great piece like this.
@@browneyeofsauron1244 Considering modern Disney, it’ll most likely be that way, unfortunately. All of the prowess and grandeur that Disney retained was lost in the 2010s in favor of greedy capitalist actions. At this point, there’s no turning back, and we’re probably gonna get a half-assed live remake of Fantasia- and it’ll ruin what the original Fantasia was all about: *animation.*
Does anyone else always imagine a gorgeous, expansive ballroom, in a palace, very ornate, filled with beautiful couples, beautifully dressed for a formal, royal ball, elegantly dancing, swirling around the ballroom dancefloor, diamonds & other jewels glittering, men in handsome white-tails, women with magnificent, shining, thick hair, in elaborate, attractive styles, gowns of the finest materials, and flattering designs...
whenever you hear The Blue Danube?
I always do!!! ♥️
I LOVE CLASSICAL MUSIC.....THANK YOU VERY MUCH....I AM CHILEAN FRIEND IN SOUTH AFRICA......ALL THE BEST MATE!!!
After Space Odyssey I can't think anything else, but planets and spaceships while listening to this
+A CATAL well me too, but after watching the movie it reminds me of space traveling now
+A CATAL you too :-)
very very true
Tea Revazishvili so me too
Tea Revazishvili Blue Danube was also used in the movie True Lies in the initial dance scene
"Just what do you think you're doing, Dave? "
Open the pod bay doors Hal!
im afraid i cannot do that dave
pottman101 lol
pssst - Danyel - no ad libbing...
You're thinking of *"Also Sprach Zarathustra"* by RICHARD Strauss.
A completely different song and completely different composer.
i imagine a fair young lady in front of me with a dazzling gown whos ready to take a strut in the middle of a grand hall, when i listen to this song
Ishtar Bond I think the same thing when I hear it
stop please
*cogh* titanic *cough*
Oh god the fucking cringe
Instant feelgood, you can never be angry when this song is on.
Why yes! Very true. And by the way im the first like on your comment.
Tom & Jerry was the first time I heard this. Now when I hear it all I can think of is ice dancers. I think that's kind of nice :)
Hands down one of the best part of my childhood. That show also sparked my interest in classics.
Yeah, that's the one. I think there was another episode that had this piece in though, but I don't recall..
bigboredthing
The episode where Tom and Jerry did a piano duet?
bigboredthing One of the best episodes other than El Magnifico. Tom and Jerry was my childhood I loved the older ones made way back when. If I see it on I always go to it. Now that I think of it, it was such a violent show holy fuck
bigboredthing the three musketeers for me. The disney version with mickey
No matter how chaotic the part of whatever videogame you're playing, it is always better with this track.
perfect song to lament for assignments due tomorrow~
Strauss and homework.🤔
Dont know why but when I hear this song, all I can think of is over 100 people in a room with green clothes being instructed that a next game is about to begin
yeah
I was born in 1950, I grew up listing to these Songs.
It would be so lovely to go to a dance like in the olden days and dance to a beautiful waltz. This song seems to have become the one for space travel
They played this song on the episode of The Simpsons where Homer goes to space.
@@bassmaster867 He's talking about 2001: A Space Oddysey you uncivilized barbarian.
I'm proud I live by Danube river. Such powerfull and beautifull river.
Looking for classical songs brought me here...I was not disappointed :3
I think every part is best part
1812 overture
I hardly ever get teary eyed by anything, but if I do, it's because this song is playing. One of my biggest favorites for as long as I can remember. Most likely since I was a baby.
May God bless youtube for adding the 2X speed for the amusement of all beings on Earth and beyond.
Funny, true classical music story: Mrs. Strauss asked Brahms to autograph her fan. He did--writing a few bars of the Blue Danube on it with the inscription: "Unfortunately, not by Johannes Brahms" No one could ever accuse Brahms of not having a sense of humor--or admiring the gifts of other fellow composers.
I FIRST HEARD IT - in 1963, as a young boy spinning his parents vinyl, laying on my back on the carpeted floor, eyes closed, floating.... BEFORE any of the associations with other cultural icons such as "Mr. Bean at the Dentist", or "2001..." - just the pure Strauss and my own unadulterated young mind.
I would recommend such an experience for children today, when they are 4 or 5 years old... It was as beneficial for my mental development as the acid trips in my teens were. [have they declared a "War on Classical Music" yet?]
....but then I would recommend keeping children away from the TV until age 5, so I am a dinosaur I suppose. But Beethoven, Strauss, Tchaichovsky and of course BACH would surely inspire more neural connections than 12 minutes of advertisements per half hour of violent puppetry.
I didn't have to be worried about staying away from the T.V until the age of five because at five is when I could finally start hearing. By the time I was five I could start remembering events so I remember the first time I could hear myself say a word...turned out that that word was "backpack" from Dora. I'm glad I can hear now because since the time I could hear I listened to classical music, it was among my favorites.
I was born in 1999 but luckily I had an childhood that remained unscathed by today's technology. I can't imagine having had a childhood with a phone in front of my face at all times. That's why I don't have one now either.
Your early hearing problems might have given you an appreciation for sound that most of us take for granted. I agree about the cell phone craze - it is not only about the bizarre life but the cancer too
You seem like an interesting fellow to talk to. And yes, haven't we declared it yet?.
Cheers
I'll definitely try this when I have kids. I'm not letting them see a phone screen for more than 30 minutes total until they're over 7 or something late like that
My grandmother won the title "queen of the ball" dancing on this waltz in 1930.
Lucky one :)
You have the best grandmother
It's funny how half of the classic songs we heard are German. Even Silent night and the lullaby we love so much was originally from Germany. I love these songs so much.
Un
if half are german, that is mostly true, the other half is russian.
this song is austrian
+Gertraud Strempfl Ledl
This. The only thing german about this song is the the original title it was given.
Tschaikovsky, Shostakovich, Rachmanninov, Mussorgsky, Stravinsky and roughly a billion more incredible composers from the old Motherland would wish to object to that.
One of my ancestors was supposedly hunting buddies with Strauss... I don't know if that's true at all but I like to believe it!
+Yoni Schwartz which eastern European country?,
The most beautiful waltz ever composed beautiful memories
This was one of the first classical pieces I really listened to in its entirety. I was 13, and 10 minutes was considered to be way too long for just one "song". But I just couldn't stop. I guess I have Johann Strauss Jr to blame for enjoying almost every waltz by every composer. This waltz was also one of the best parts of Kubrick's 2001, but not only by itself, naturally also because of how it was used in the film. Great pieces of art work well together, even if one is film and the other music.
My mom used to sing this to me when I was like 5 whenever I went to the swimming pool with her, and one time, but she always forgot the name of the song. Thank god I finally found this ❤️
I want to dance whenever I listen to this, I feel so happy listening to it
CSI will always be my first memory of this piece. Darn head rolling down the hill.
it's impossible not to picture Bob Clampett's "A Corny Concerto" when listening to this haha. One of my first introductions to this piece of music, ever since I was a little girl, I fell in love with this piece thanks to that one particular Warner Bros. cartoon. Such a classic!
One of the best channels I came up by chance.
I am really enjoying the pleasure of some of the brilliant medleys.
Thanks for all your magnificent posting.
This waltz is so familiar to a lot of people because it has been used so many times in so many different shows/movies. On top of all the cartoon references already in the comments section, this song made its way into several old time Looney Tunes cartoons. It was also in the movie "True Lies" (in the last scene but before the tango).
It's all fun and games until the 4th game begins.
PLAYING this in my youth orchestra
The 2nd game is about to start.
@TheWickedNorth : Your playlist is fantastic. You saved me so much searching. I've been a hardcore Internet user since it was available to the general public and this is the first UA-cam channel I've subscribed to. Thanks so much for putting the time in to organize this!
I have been searching for this song for years. Thank you very much generous man.
Beautiful music.
Classical Music,inspires me, relaxes me and clears my mind
1:39 - 2:16 is my favourite part
Beautiful.........
5:22 best part
🤌
Finally i've found it!!!
Sa wakas,nahanap ko rin.woooooh.from philippines with love.
this has been from a lot of tv shows and movies like bratz, mr. bean, little einsteins, spongebob, space buddies, etc
And Rango....etc 😊👍🏼
+Karidee (Zhang x Clifford) Most important of all buddy
2001: Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick
+Karidee (Zhang x Clifford) And Tom and Jerry :)
+Karidee (Zhang x Clifford) Please never mention Little Einsteins ever again. It is an awful show that ruins beautiful music.
Joshua Jurgensmeier lol
he just wrote how he feels toward the danube river, and i can't say unless OMG, how wonderful was your eyes, how pure was your soul and how creative was that mind :)
An amazing piece of music! l Always stirs happy memories for me, like ice skating with my wonderful wife!
Silence. Rise. Power. Fall. Silence.
Props to the cameraman who recorded this all the way back in 1866
word! so many people have no idea how difficult it was taking photographs of people back in the day!
how the fuck did a camera man record audio
This really is the waltz of all waltzes.
I do always remember of SpongeBob when I do listen to this waltz!
Same!
The best part when this plays in SpongeBob is when the world explodes and Squidward is chasing SpongeBob through space
I like when this song plays in the episode which Plankton goes to the space after he tries to destroy the Bikini Bottom with the grude bubble XD
Sabrina Ribeiro Bacelar Yes, I like the part where the music plays when Squidward makes Spongebob do the dance until he got it right. It happened that Squidward was sleep depriving Spongebob so he can win the dance contest.
***** Yes.
Wow! If you ever have a chance of hearing the Ulster Orchestra playing this, then go! Such a gorgeous piece! :)
Such calm music
I'm sorry Dave, but I'm afraid I can't do that.
Nice, Bob Dylan
Dave: Open the pod bay doors, HAL.
🙂 I love that music, it’s so beautiful, and I heard it ever since when I was a little.
"The 4th game is about to begin. Please follow the staff's instruction and swiftly make your way towards the game hall"
*The Three Musketeers: Mickey, Donald, and Goofy* brought me here xD
sweet wings of love
That tune, way comparable to "Can You Feel the Love Tonight."
ladyus lol
ever since I was a kid I always loved listening to classical music, and I also like listening to some oldy music you know stuff from the 60's 70' s 80's & 90's. I also like music composed from movies (John Williams, Danny Elfman, Randy Edleman, etc) but I can't stand rap. The other day in work the guys who work in receiving had a radio on and were listening to rap, finnally I couldn't take it I turned it off. And before you ask none of them were around when I turned it off.
I adore this ever since I could remember. I heard this magnificent piece of music in an MGM cartoon of 1939 called The Blue Danube and fell in love with it ever since. I used to whistle the entire thing for real of course my mouth would hurt after that or I would dance around in the room or pretend to be a violinist and play as the music played. Eh Childhood what can I say. Thanks for the upload!
The 👍 Quality 💃 🎶,Thanks👋🙂
The first time you hear this you can't stay still. I don;t know how all those people in that music hall back in 1867 managed to remain calm and civilised when they first heard this. A wall of sound, a melody that feels so natural that you feel as if you knew it before you heard it.
Such hopeful, adventurous music! It puts me in a good mood.
the transition at 8:20 made me speechless.
Thanks!
Quack quack QUACK QUACK!!!
No Looney Tunes
Yes, I Guess It's May Be From Tom And Jerry Hhh ^_^
And here I was thinking this was an Aflac reference.
I appreciate your commentary.
*turns and glares at you while you swim away*
unfortunatly, few are those people that may bring us such audible art nowadays!
1:40 I imagine a scene of a soccer game in slowmo where the ball just keeps hitting the bar, bouncing off, hits the bar again, until it finally goals. Comedic, and a bit dramatic because you imagined it in slow motion
Favorite music for all the time😍
1:40 is what we're all here for
1:39 best place to start
very beautiful!!!! thank you!!!! it`s a relaxing melody!!! i love it!!!!
Fantastic Waltz, many thanks...I adore this artistic music one of a kind...Zuzanna
BEST WALTZ EVER!!!!!
amazing, GREAT Johann Strauss
se me caen las lágrimas escuchando esta mágica melodía :D
You really need to be Elite to appreciate this one. ;)
Right on Commander!
Yeah, the C64 version for me.
March 19, 2021. I found this song name for the first time although I have listened it so many times ❤️
I sing metal,and this song is my principal source of inspiration!
Forever riding my bicycle up hills to this song, so damn inspirational
I play this in the background to Space Engineers. It fits the game beautifully.
I usually play Chicken Invaders to this. It's too beautiful to even comprehend.
2:45- 3:48 reminds me of the film "Goodbye Lenin". Thanks for posting this- I don't think I've ever heard this piece all the way through!
It's so weird to me how 90% of these comments are calling this piece a song.
From Webster's,
Song: a short piece of music with words that are sung
I get the feeling that 90% of humans forget about this definition
+Cube-alig From Oxford: "
Song : ...
(1.2) A musical composition suggestive of a song.
Example sentence:
He composed some 700 songs, which makes him one of the most prolific song composers since Schubert."
Plus all the great linguists of history have understood language is alive, the point of it is to communicate, not to enforce like a law. "Song" has developed as a catch all term for any separated length of music, under which come the further detailing words, such as ballad, sonnet, bolero, waltz, heavy metal instrumental, whatever.
Cube-alig
Graham Siggins who gives a shit?
this
Sway side to side. Side to side. Side to side. Side to side. Down up up. Down up up. Down up up. Down up up. Twist and turn. Twist and turn. Twist and turn. Twist and turn.
Strauss does look rather awesome doesn't he.
1:40 to 2:17 is the best i cant stop repeating thanks for uploading
I don't know why i love it so much though
Perfect. Music
yeah, can't deny that I discovered this tune as a child watching 2001... as I get older I can appreciate for it's own value - but when I hear it I still can't help thinking of orbiting spaceships and that ... : )
I think the last two minutes are the best.
This is the rare music that can stayed fine tune at all times in such long playing timing, no other music can stayed fine tune in such long time, either nice in short period, or come with least fine tune in long period!
What a beautiful piece
If I say it's brilliant, it'll be nothing but an insult to it. It cannot be praised in words.