[Virginia Strauss]

Title: Professor of Music
Office: Jenson-Noble 162
Phone: 1.563.387.1266
E-mail: strausvi@luther.edu
Degree: D.M.A., University of Texas
Interests: Violin, advanced ear training

Dr. Virginia Strauss has taught violin and chamber music at Luther College (Decorah, Iowa, USA) since 1975. Her teachers have included David Schneider, Paul Zukofsky, and Leonard Posner, former Concert Master of the MBC Radio Symphony Orchestra under Toscanini. Ms. Strauss in an active recitalist and a founding member of the Oneota Chamber Players, an ensemble which is heard on public radio and television, as well as in live performances throughout the United States. She also performs as Concertmaster of the La Crosse (Wis.) Symphony Orchestra. Professor Strauss is coeditor with her husband, Dr. John F. Strauss, of over a dozen works by Johann Baptist Vanhal, Georg Friedrich Fuchs, and Johann Nepomuk Hummel for publishers Doblinger and H. Anderle (Vienna, Austria), and of the complete chamber music of Walter Rabl for A-R Editions (USA).

Articles [co-authored with John Strauss]
"Study Abroad: An Educational Experience," (Agora, Fall 1988).
“Walter Rabl” in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (Vol.20, 2001).

Music Editions [co-edited with John Strauss]

Johann Baptist Vanhal: Concerto in C Major for Violine, Cembalo und Streichorchester cadenzas by V. Strauss (Diletto Musicale 1107, Doblinger Verlag, Vienna, 1992).

The Complete Instrumental Chamber Music of Walter Rabl, (A-R Editions, Madison, WI, 1996) Vol. 24 of Recent Researches in the Music of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries.

Johann Baptist Vanhal: Sonata in Bb Major, Op. 30 No. 1 for violin and piano (Diletto Musicale 1181, Doblinger Verlag, Vienna, 1996).

Johann Baptist Vanhal: Sonata in Eb Major, Op. 30 No. 2 for violin and piano (Diletto Musicale 1182, Doblinger Verlag, Vienna, 1996).

Johann Baptist Vanhal: Sonata in G Major, Op. 30 No 3 for violin and piano (Diletto Musicale 1183, Doblinger Verlag, Vienna, 1966).

Georg Friedrich Fuchs: Trio Concertante in G-Moll, Op. 64, No. 3 for clarinet, violin and cello (Diletto Musicale 1224, Doblinger Verlag, Vienna, 1997).

Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Concerto for Piano, Violin and Orchestra in G Major, Op. 17 (H.A. 3, Verlag Anderle, Vienna, 1998).

Johann Baptist Vanhal: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in C Major, Weinmann IIA C9 (H.A. 5, Verlag Anderle, Vienna 1998).

Johann Baptist Vanhal: Three Sonatas for Piano (Eb Major, G Minor, G Major)(Diletto Musicale 1225, Doblinger Verlag, Vienna, 1998).

Johann Baptist Vanhal: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in C Major, Weinmann IIb C 2 (H.A. 8, Verlag Anderle, Vienna 1999).

Johann Baptist Vanhal: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in A Major, Opus 45, Weinmann IIa/A1 (H.A. 9, Verlag Anderle, Vienna 2000).

Johann Baptist Vanhal: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in D Major, Opus 14, Weinmann IIa/D1 (H.A. 21, Verlag Anderle, Vienna 2001).

Johann Baptist Vanhal: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in C Major, Weinmann IIa/C4 (H.A. 22, Verlag Anderle, Vienna 2001).

Johann Baptist Vanhal: Quartett in Eb-Dur, Op. 40, No. 1 for violin, viola, cello and piano (Diletto Musicale 1307, Doblinger Verlag, Vienna, 2002).

Johann Baptist Vanhal: Quartett in G-Dur, Op. 40, No. 2 for violin, viola, cello and piano (Diletto Musicale 1308, Doblinger Verlag, Vienna, 2003).

Johann Baptist Vanhal: Quartett in B-Dur, Op. 40, No. 3 for violin, viola, cello and piano (Diletto Musicale 1350, Doblinger Verlag, Vienna, 2005).

Ignaz Joseph Pleyel: Symphonie Concertante fürVioline, Klavier und Orchester in F-Dur, B. 115 (International Pleyel Gesellschaft, Rupperstal, Austria, 2012).

Computer-Engraved Editions [co-edited with John Strauss]

Ignaz Josef Pleyel: Trio in B-Dur, B. 440 (1791) for violin, cello and piano Doblinger Verlag (Diletto Musicale 1405), Vienna, 2007

Ignaz Josef Pleyel: Trio in C-Dur, B. 441 (1791) for violin, cello and piano Doblinger Verlag (Diletto Musicale 1406), Vienna, 2007

Ignaz Josef Pleyel: Trio in f-moll, B. 442 (1791) for violin, cello and piano Doblinger Verlag (Diletto Musicale 1407), Vienna, 2007

Ignaz Joseph Pleyel: Trio in A-Dur, B. 448 (1794) for violin, cello and piano Doblinger Verlag (Diletto Musicale 1441), Vienna, 2011

Ignaz Joseph Pleyel: Trio in G-Dur, B. 446 (1794) for violin, cello and piano Doblinger Verlag (Diletto Musicale 1439), Vienna 2012

Ignaz Joseph Pleyel: Trio in B-Dur, B. 447 (1794) for violin, cello and piano Doblinger Verlag (Diletto Musicale 1440), Vienna 2012

Accepted for Publication

Johann Baptist Vanhal: Sonata agrèable in G-Dur, Op. 43, No. 1 for piano and violin 
Doblinger Verlag, Vienna 2013

Johann Baptist Vanhal: Sonata agrèable in B-Dur, Op. 43, No. 2 for piano and violin
Doblinger Verlag, Vienna 2013

Johann Baptist Vanhal: Sonata agrèable in D-moll, Op. 43, No. 3 for piano and violin
Doblinger Verlag, Vienna 2013

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