Eduard Strauss

The family dominated the Viennese light music world for decades, creating many waltzes and polkas for many Austrian nobility as well as dance-music enthusiasts around Europe.

Eduard Strauss' style was individual and did not attempt to emulate the works of his other brothers or his contemporaries.

But he was primarily remembered and recognized as a dance music conductor rather than as a major composer in the Strauss family [ja], and his popularity was overshadowed by that of his elder brothers.

Among the more popular polkas that he penned for the Strauss Orchestra, which he continued to conduct until its disbandment on 13 February 1901, were "Bahn Frei!

[citation needed] Strauss's musical career was pervaded with rivalry, not only from his brothers, but also from the military bandmaster and dance music composer Karl Michael Ziehrer, who even formed a rival orchestra called "Formerly Eduard Strauss Orchestra", and began giving concerts in Vienna under this new title.