Munsey's Magazine, October 1895

# Artists and Their Work / The Waltz King

Munsey's October 1895 issue features two major sections. "Artists and Their Work" covers contemporary painters: French muralist Puvis de Chavannes, whose late-career works revolutionized architectural decoration; Charles Joshua Chaplin's The Golden Age; and three celebrated German painters—Julius Schrader, Andreas Achenbach, and Adolf Menzel—all nearing eighty. The section notes Cornelius Vanderbilt's acquisition of Gainsborough's Lady Mulgrave and Royal Academy elections. A brief mention records John Banvard's Mississippi panorama—nearly two miles long—as the largest painting ever executed.

"The Waltz King" profiles Johann Strauss the Younger, detailing his rise from childhood musical training opposed by his father (the elder Strauss), through his 1844 debut conducting his own compositions to wild acclaim, to international success. The article recounts his 1872 appearance at Boston's Peace Jubilee conducting a thousand musicians, and his New York concerts.