Johann Strauss was born in Vienna in 1825.Although his father did not want him to become a 1.musician(music)£¬Strauss Junior studied the violin 2.secretly(secret) as a child.When his father discovered his son practising on a violin one day£¬he gave him a beating£¬3.saying(say) that he was going to beat the music out of the boy.But that didn’t prevent the boy from becoming one of the 4.greatest(great) composers of all time.