Eduard Strauss, son of Johann Strauss I, brother of Johann Strauss II and Josef Strauss, and the last leader of the Strauss Orchestra was a pompous, dictatorial person, who loved wearing his medals.He is best remembered as the person who, to fulfill a promise he had made to his brothers, burned the entire Strauss orchestra library, and the original manuscripts of the entire Strauss Family in 1906.
All the dance arrangements of the Strauss Orchestra were destroyed in the boiler room of his friend's chair factory. It took seven hours, we are told, amid frantic protestations from the many onlookers:
Nontheless, he wrote the following 295 published compositions.