Austrian dance music composer (1801–1843)
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Josef Franz Karl Lanner (12 April 1801 – 14 April 1843) was an Austrian dance music composer.[1] He was best remembered as one of the earliest Viennese composers to reform the waltz from a simple peasant dance to something that even the highest society could enjoy, either as an accompaniment to the dance, or for the music's own sake. He was just as famous as his friend and musical rival Johann Strauss I, who was better known outside of Austria in their day because of his concert tours abroad, in
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