Straus, Oscar 03/06/1870 - 01/11/1954

Wikipedia:
Oscar Straus, actually Oscar Nathan Strauss (* March 6, 1870 in Vienna; † January 11, 1954 in Bad Ischl), was an Austrian operetta composer. Along with Franz Lehár, Leo Fall and Emmerich Kálmán, he is one of the most important composers of the so-called ''Silver Operetta Era''.
Oscar Strauss, son of the Jewish banker Leopold Strauss, later changed his last name to Straus to avoid confusion with the Strauss waltz dynasty. At the turn of the century he wrote several successful operettas, most famously ''Ein Walzertraum'' from 1907 and later composed for Broadway and Hollywood. But he also set poems to music, such as for ''Überbrettl: Lustiger Ehemann'' as well as ''Das Lied des verlassenen Lehmann''. Both texts were by Otto Julius Bierbaum and became huge successes.
He studied under Max Bruch and had his first minor successes as Kapellmeister in Brüx and Teplitz-Schönau. In Berlin, he participated in the first German musical cabaret, the ''Überbrettl'', where the young Arnold Schönberg also worked for some time after him. After the Anschluss of Austria, he had to emigrate to Paris in 1939 and then later to New York and Hollywood. Only after the Second World War did he return to Europe.
From his first marriage to the violinist and concertmaster Nelly Irmen came Katharina (1898), Louis (1895) and Leo Straus (1897-1944), who worked as a dramaturge and librettist. In 1908 Straus entered into a second marriage with the singer Clara Singer (1886-1967); from this marriage came two sons, the componist Erwin Straus (1910-1966) and the writer and director Walter Straus (1913-1945).
Straus' grave is located in the Bad Ischl cemetery.

Note: Translated from the German version of Wikipedia into English.