Johann Strauss, sr.

Johann Strauss, sr.—also called Johann Strauss I in the literature—was an excellent violinist who started playing professionally under Michael Pamer, the most important connection between the earlier waltz and Laendler traditions and urban practices after about 1820. Strauss then played under Josef Lanner, but soon formed his own band (in 1825) and enjoyed immediate success. The pieces below come from the last two years of his life; he died in 1849.

Strauss, sr. Damen Souvenir Polka, op236, second strain. An indirect—actually very nearly direct—resolution, thus either category 2.1 or 2.4 depending on how you hear it.

Strauss, sr., Die Sorgenbrecher Walzer, op230n2. Here Strauss puts such emphasis on E6, as the ninth, that it is not hard to imagine we hear a D6 over the subsequent tonic.

The remaining examples are also direct resolutions to the tonic (my category 2.3).

Strauss, sr., Wiener Kreuze Polka, op220

Strauss, sr., op236, first strain

Strauss, sr., Exeter Polka, op249 2trio

Strauss, sr., Die Adepten Walzer, op216n5