Monument to Johann Strauss was inaugurated July 12, 2003 on the territory of the Pavlovsk Park. The history of the park is inextricably linked with the name of the "King of Waltz". In the mid-19th century. here by Alexander Shtakenshnejdera music pavilion was built, it was also called "Kurhaus" or common room. Also, when the pavilion was a restaurant and a garden with fountains and a large concert hall, which was designed around a hundred people. It was here and performed Johann Strauss.

Strauss monument was donated by the Republic of Austria in honor of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg .  The idea belongs to Strauss Memorial image Svetlana kudzu, actress musical comedy, its lead singer, the best "Bat" theater, the best Adele .  In 1999 .  Vienna during the filming of the actress about the composer drew attention to the bronze statue of Strauss .  The actress decided that this monument should decorate and Pavlovsk .  She sought the help of the Union of Concert Performers .  The fact that the monument has appeared on the ground in St. Petersburg, attended by many people .  Among them, the authors of this idea, and diplomats, and a professor of Vienna University of Arts, sculptor Shvanberg Gero, who oversaw the creation of a copy of the statue of the composer .  Brings to life the project workers SU-305, the company "Court" Tsarskoye Selo Energy Company, gardening company "Pushkin", the department of housing and communal services, construction and ecology .

The monument was unveiled in the festival "The Great Waltz". Donated the sculpture is a copy of the monument to Strauss, established in 1907 in Vienna. Its author was a friend of Johann Strauss sculptor Edmund Helmer. The sculpture depicts a musician with a violin in his moment of creative impulse. This monument is not just a tribute to the great composer, but also a reminder of the golden pore soaring waltz and many balls.

The first Russian tour Strauss refer to 1856 for 10 years Johann Strauss conducted Pavlovsk summer concerts. Under his leadership the orchestra achieved a high level of perfection. Renowned music critic and composer A. Serov wrote that he had never heard so masterfully executed waltzes as running Johann Strauss.

Austrian guests during their tour Pavlov did a lot for the promotion of Russian music. He gladly includes works MI Glinka and A. Serov in their programs. Under the leadership of Strauss took one of the first performances of works by Tchaikovsky in public: in 1865 Strauss Orchestra under the baton of young composer played "Dancing hay girls."

Austrian composer, in turn, experienced the profound influence of Russian musical culture. To hold in Russia's he later recalled with special affection and Pavlovian experience was for him a source from which he drew his creative inspiration embodied in the wonderful music. There he met and fell in love with twenty Smirnitsky Olga, who tried his hand at composition and poetry, but it was not destined to be together. Cancelled due to caste prejudices marriage in the fate of the brilliant virtuoso left a deep impression, thus enriching the treasury of world music graceful waltz "Farewell to St. Petersburg." This novel Strauss also devoted a polka "Olga" and the waltz-joke "Road Trip".

Because of his Russian tour musician managed to gain a stable and strong financial position, which has helped the musician to overcome the humiliating dependence on the powerful.

At the monument to the genius of waltzes in Pavlovsk honor his musical legacy. Every year, young musicians are involved in the Strauss Festival, bringing to life the image of "dancing the conductor."