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“STRAUSS SECRETS” – By Des Kelly      Everyone knows the NAME. Johann Strauss, the “Waltz-King”, as I would like to call him. A composer of some of the very best light-classical music, especially his Waltzes, known and loved around our Planet. However, there were certain “items” about all of these great men of music, of yesteryear that were not generally known by their adoring public. I hope that this will make some interesting reading for all my eLanka readers, everywhere.         On the 5th of April, 1874, a very very long time ago, the most sparkling & inspired of all operettas, Die Fledermaus was said to have been written by Johann Strauss in only forty two days (yes folks, this is but a brief period in which to write an operetta. I suppose a complete Opera would take the best of six months, if not longer), and ...