With his own orchestra numerous concert tours and organized the Ronacher concerts in Vienna from 1896 to 1904. In 1908, after Johann Strauss 'father, Johann Strauss' son, and Eduard Strauss, he was appointed court ball music director until 1918 as the fourth and last musician. He composed a total of 19 operettas and around 600 (!) Marches, waltzes, and dances. Ziehrer's military music was so exemplary that military bands were set up based on his model in England, Spain, and America. In addition to "Weana Mad'ln", "This is the magic of the gear" and the "Schönfeld March", his waltz Hereinspaziert is one of his most famous works.

During the long carnival of 1862, the masked balls of the entrepreneur Hassa in the Dianasaal were a sensation. In addition to a "masked ball with ice-skating dance", a "masking in snowstorms" took place shortly afterward, for which Josef Strauss wrote an "ice-skating polka". In his diary, one finds the entry of a Winterlust-Polka and it can be assumed that it is the same piece.

Emmerich Kálmán supplied the Danube metropolis as the most important competitor of Franz Lehár with the sparkling music of his homeland and created three immortal hits with the "Csárdásfürstin" (1915), "Countess Mariza" (1924), and the "Circus Princess " (1926). When evening comes / Greet me my Vienna from Countess Mariza has always been one of the absolute hits and is at the top of the list of all the great tenors.

With the operetta "Die Zirkusprinzessin", premiered on March 26, 1926 in the Theater an der Wien, Kálmán celebrateda third world success. The operetta has a rather unusual musical wealth for the operetta genre. The range is spanned from colorful, dazzling circus music to the Viennese waltz, the csardas, and the modern foxtrot. 344 performances are given in Vienna; the English version of the operetta premiered in 1927 at the Winter Garden Theater in New York City.

Before Hitler came to power, Richard was Tauber, the illegitimate son of an actor and an operetta soubrette, an absolutely unattainable superstar. As an outstanding singer, he conquered the biggest opera stages and later won the audience's hearts with his "Richard Tauber Songs", which he wrote especially for himself. A myriad of recordings reinforced this popularity. Tauber is also less well known as a conductor and composer of his religious chants in German, Hebrew, and Aramaic.

In May 1874 Johann Strauss son undertook an art tour through Italy, 21 concerts in different cities between Milan, Naples, and Trieste were planned. On May 9, 1874, at the Teatro Regio in Turin, he played the waltz he had composed for this tour for the first time in public: "Bella Italia". For Austria, the composer changed the name to Where the lemons bloom. He borrowed this title from Goethe "Do you know the land where the lemons bloom". And under this title, the waltz was published and became a particularly charming waltz by Johann Strauss.

Regardless of people's economic worries, the Sperl celebrated a New Year's Eve party soiree. Directly at the turn of the year and the traditional "God receive", Johann Strauss father took hold to the baton and conducted his New Year's Polka, which had just appeared in print, to whose music the company cheered the New Year 1847 cheerfully. Nobody suspected that it was the last year of peace and order ...

In the fall of 1887, Eduard Strauss performed his Gallop  Mit Extrapost for the first time. The "beautiful EDI", as the youngest of the Strauss brothers was called, has been at the head of the chapel in turns with Josef since 1862.
Much had changed in the imperial city: the care of Viennese composers like Lanner and Strauss-Vater had long since slipped away and left to the military bandmasters.
There were hardly any civil orchestras left in the dance halls and in the gardens of the establishments. The Strauss-Kapelle also had to make guest appearances abroad over the summer in order to survive. In the middle of October 1887, Eduard returned with the musicians from southern Germany and presented his new "extra mail" at the first concert on October 23rd at the Musikverein as a souvenir of his trip.

The overture to the operetta "Der Zigeunerbaron" by Johann Strauss Sohnconfidently summarizes all the main melodies of the entire operetta. The composer makes sure that the later hits of the work only emerge briefly, such as the advertising song. A critic from the time describes the beginning of the overture: "With the first four bars, the chord of the Hungarian world sounds, the minor realm of syncopations, fermatas, free cadences begins, the cymbal-like, rhapsodic begins, which is an ideal contrast to the later evoked Vienneseism occurs. " The concert premiere of the entire work took place on November 8th by Eduard Strauss in the Wiener Musikverein. Since then, the overture has been part of world musical literature.

For the concerts in Paris, the Johann Strauss son thought to be held in Paris in the summer of 1867, the composer lacked an effective new "Reisser" to complement his master waltzes "On the Beautiful Blue Danube" and "Artist's Life".
He delivered it at the end of the Carnival in 1867. The Schnellpolka Leichtes Blut immediately wowed audiences, first in Vienna, then in Paris, and finally all over the world.

Your is my whole heart is probably the most famous song of the operetta "Das Land des Smiles "  by Franz Lehár, which premiered in 1929. It was dedicated to the tenor Richard Tauber, who premiered it but also sang it again and again as an encore, making it very popular. After Tauber's emigration to London in 1938, the song became a world hit in the English-speaking world, both with the German text and the English translation (" You are my heart's delight" ). It was known as "THE DEAF SONG".

His brilliant Polka Mazur Praise of Women was conducted by Johann Strauss Sohn for the first time on February 17, 1867, in Vienna's Volksgarten. This piece was probably already intended for the concerts that Strauss planned to give in Paris and London in the summer of 1867. In both cities, as in Vienna, the elegiac and yet lively Polka Mazur had the expected success. She still has it today.

Ritter Pásmán is the only opera by Johann Strauss Son. The libretto is based on the Hungarian story Pázmán lovagby János Arany and is set in Hungary during the Renaissance. The first performance of the three-act comic opera took place on January 1, 1892, at the Vienna Court Opera, but it is no longer performed today. Some numbers from it, such as a waltz, a polka, as well as ballet music and a quadrille, and the famous Csárdás, Strauss published separately under Opus 441.

Johann Strauss Sohn wrote the Danube Waltz1866 after the Austrian defeat at Königgrätz, as a kind of medicine for the troubled folk-soul of the Austrians. This waltz was soon to become her “wordless peace Marseillaise”. Originally the broken D major triad at the beginning was not "wordless", but a choral waltz, composed for the Vienna Men's Choir on behalf of its conductor Johann Herbeck. Even today, the Vienna Boys' Choir and other choirs occasionally sing a later text of the Danube Waltz with the beginning "Danube so blue", but the original text, which was premiered in February 1867, began with the following curious verses:
Viennese are happy! Oh, why? No so just look around! I ask why? A glimmer of light! We don't see anything yet. Egg! Mardi Gras is here! Ah so, well! 
So this, the most famous of all waltzes, was also about the carnival and its dancing pleasure, of which the uncrowned King Johann Strauss was already the son at that time. Incidentally, he conducted the Blue Danube Waltz after its premiere in Vienna in the summer of 1867 on the occasion of the Paris World Exhibition and - with an English text (it is not known exactly) - a little later in London. Both performances were so successful that the waltz became an instant hit. The first world hit in music history. To this day, the waltz on the beautiful blue Danube is considered a Viennese hymn three-four times and a musical landmark of Austria.
Mechthild Bartolomey