the blue danube waltz and reshape the popular image of vienna. this museum chronicles his work and that of the entire strauss dynasty banister music research and how much riker now is a co-founder he spent years studying the history of the strauss family which produced so many great musicians that. the breakthrough came with johann strauss the elder around eighteen thirty he went on concert tours of england in france and caused a huge sensation with his waltzes. heel hunched all so then his son also called johann perfected the form of the waltz yet they still pull the heels if his brother you also have played a decisive part and together they expanded on the waltz form of the. many original documents some displayed in separate rooms johann strauss the younger was born in eight hundred twenty five he composed nearly five hundred workers. not far from the museum is the vienna stage opera the size of the annual opera bowl it traditionally opens with a viennese waltz. is on the feel good times through the ne is walter's dance especially often at vien