Free Johann Strauss II sheet music
7 Johann Strauss II scores on Artform's shelf, ordered easiest to read first. Every score here is public domain, free to read, print and keep.
Open the sheet music libraryJohann Strauss II (1825-1899)
The Waltz King, and the second Johann Strauss: his father, who wrote the Radetzky March, forbade him a career in music and intended him for a bank. He learned the violin in secret with his mother's help, formed a rival orchestra to his father's, and ended up eclipsing him entirely. The Blue Danube was a flop at its choral premiere and became, in its orchestral form, the second national anthem of Austria. Brahms, asked to sign a fan's autograph, wrote out its opening bars and underneath them, unfortunately not by me.
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The easiest Johann Strauss II on the shelf, in order. Nothing here is graded and nobody is ranked: the shelf simply puts the pieces that ask less of your hands before the ones that ask more.
How the reader works
Each score opens as engraved notation you can read from the stand, and it plays: hear the piece first, then slow it down and loop the bar that is not working. There is nothing to install and no account to make. When you want paper, print it.
Every file is MusicXML, so MuseScore, Sibelius, Finale and Dorico open them too.
Where to go next
If you are learning Johann Strauss II rather than only reading, the scale pages cover fingering in every key, the chord pages spell out every chord, and the symbol dictionary explains any mark on the page you do not recognise.