蜜芽传媒

150 years ago one of the world鈥檚 most famous pieces of music The Blue Danube waltz was performed for the first time at a concert in Vienna. Originally Johann Strauss the Younger鈥檚 piece was performed as a choral work, but it鈥檚 the orchestral version that has become so popular. For Austrians it鈥檚 now the country's unofficial national anthem, with some politicians also using it for their own ends, as Bethany Bell explains.

First broadcast on From Our Own Correspondent, 16 February 2017.