<P> Josef Strauss married Caroline Pruckmayer at the church of St. Johann Nepomuk in Vienna on 8 June 1857, and had one daughter, Karolina Anna, who was born on March 27, 1858 . </P> <P> Josef Strauss wrote 283 opus numbers . He wrote many waltzes, including: Sphären - Klänge (Music of the Spheres), Delirien (Deliriums), Transaktionen (Transactions), Mein Lebenslauf ist Lieb' und Lust (My Character is Love and Joy), and Dorfschwalben aus Österreich (Village Swallows from Austria), polkas, most famously the Pizzicato Polka (It) with his brother Johann, quadrilles, and other dance music . The waltz The Mysterious Powers of Magnetism (Dynamiden) with the use of minor keys showed a quality that distinguished his waltzes from those of his more popular elder brother . The polka - mazurka shows influence by Strauss, where he wrote many examples like Die Emancipierte and Die Libelle . </P> <P> Josef Strauss was sickly most of his life . He suffered fainting spells and intense headaches . During a tour in 1870, he fell unconscious from the conductor's podium in Warsaw, while conducting his' Musical Potpourri', and hit his head . His wife brought him back home to Vienna, to the Hirschenhaus, where he died on 22 July 1870 . A final diagnosis only reported a decomposition of blood . There were rumors that he was beaten by drunken Russian soldiers after he allegedly refused to perform music for them one night . His cause of death was not determined, as his widow forbade an autopsy . Originally buried in the St. Marx Cemetery, Strauss was later exhumed and reburied in the Vienna Central Cemetery, alongside his mother Anna . </P> <P> His dance pieces might have surpassed those of his older brother, had he survived, as Johann was by then concentrating on writing music for operettas and other stage works . </P>

Josef strauss my life is love and pleasure