( b Vienna, 12 April 1801; d Oberdöbling, 14 April 1843). Austrian composer and violinist. From a quintet in which he played the violin and the elder Johann Strauss the viola (1820), he built a full orchestra that performed popular dance music in taverns in Vienna and in the Prater; it split, forming the rival Lanner and Strauss dance bands which laid the foundations of the classical Viennese waltz. Lanner's gift for a coaxing, Schubertian lyricism was matched by his sense of Romantic harmonic colour, notably in his dances Die Pesther op.93, Die Werber op.103, Die Romantiker op.167 and Die Schönbrunner op.200.
