Editing Johann Strauss II (section)

== Death and legacy ==
[[File:Strauss Monument.JPG|thumb|right|Statue of the Waltz King in [[Stadtpark, Vienna]]]]

Strauss often suffered from a variety of lifelong health problems, including [[hypochondria]], several [[phobias]], and [[bronchial]] [[catarrh]]. In late May of 1899, he developed a respiratory illness which developed into [[pleuropneumonia]], and on 3 June 1899 he died in Vienna, at the age of 73. He was buried in the [[Zentralfriedhof]]. At the time of his death, he was still composing his ballet ''Aschenbrödel''.{{sfn|Jacob|1940|p=341}}

As a result of the efforts by [[Clemens Krauss]], who performed a special all-Strauss programme in 1929 with the [[Vienna Philharmonic]], Strauss's music is now regularly performed at the annual [[Vienna New Year's Concert]]. Distinguished Strauss interpreters include [[Willi Boskovsky]],<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/24/obituaries/willi-boskovsky-81-waltz-violinist-dies.html "Willi Boskovsky, 81, Waltz Violinist, Dies"], ''The New York Times'', 24 April 1991.</ref> who carried on the ''{{Lang|de|Vorgeiger}}'' tradition of conducting with violin in hand, as was the Strauss family custom, as well as [[Herbert von Karajan]], [[Carlos Kleiber]], [[Lorin Maazel]], [[Zubin Mehta]] and [[Riccardo Muti]]. In addition, the [[Wiener Johann Strauss Orchester]], which was formed in 1966, pays tribute to the touring orchestras which once made the Strauss family so famous.<ref>[http://members.magnet.at/strauss/strauss.htm Vienna Johann Strauß Orchestra] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/19990203020658/http://members.magnet.at/strauss/strauss.htm |date= 3 February 1999 }}</ref> In 1987 Dutch violinist and conductor [[André Rieu]] also created a [[Johann Strauss Orchestra]].

Eduard Strauss surprisingly wound up the Strauss Orchestra on 13 February 1901 after concerts in 840 cities around the globe, and pawned the instruments. The orchestra's last violins were destroyed in the firestorm of the Second World War.{{sfn|Weitlaner|2019|page=118}}

Most of the Strauss works that are performed today may once have existed in a slightly different form, as Eduard Strauss destroyed much of the original Strauss orchestral archives in a furnace factory in Vienna's [[Mariahilf]] district in 1907.{{sfn|Jacob|1940|p=363}} Eduard, then the only surviving brother of the three, took this drastic precaution after agreeing to a pact between himself and brother Josef that whoever outlived the other was to destroy their works. The measure was intended to prevent the Strauss family's works from being claimed by another composer. This may also have been fueled by Strauss's rivalry with another of Vienna's popular waltz and march composers, [[Carl Michael Ziehrer]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Johann Strauss and Vienna|first=Camille|last=Crittenden|publisher=Cambridge University Press|page=89}}</ref>

Two museums in Vienna are dedicated to Johann Strauss II. His [[Vienna Museum#Johann Strauss residence|residence in the Praterstrasse]], where he lived in the 1860s, is now part of the [[Vienna Museum]]. The [[Strauss Museum]] is about the whole family, with a focus on Johann Strauss II.