Tags: Classical Music Composition.
Paroxysmen (Paroxysms) opus 189 is a waltz composed by Johann Strauss II. It was dedicated to the Gentlemen Students of Medicine at Vienna University on the occasion of a ball held in the Sofienbad-Saal in January 1857. A critic of the newspaper Fremden-Blatt commented on the waltz: The day before yesterday the Medical Students’ Ball opened the season in the Sofienbad-Saal which made the ball especially interesting when one saw for the first time the new and sumptuously decorated locale.