In 1862, five years after a failed romance with a Russian girl Olga Smirnitskiy that ensued during the summer concerts Strauss in St. Petersburg, he finally married the singer Jetty Halupetskoy (stage name Trefts). A year later, they moved to an apartment on Pratershtrasse 54, who has lived in 7 years. The wife was seven years older than Johann Strauss. She had already had seven children. Despite this, their marriage was quite happy.

At the beginning of the 1870s heyday of creativity Strauss. During this time he wrote the famous waltz "Tales from the Vienna Woods" and "On the Beautiful Blue Danube." During this period Strauss court handed duties to his brother and began operetta, written just 15 pieces.

During a tour of the UK and the US, Strauss set a world record while operating an orchestra of more than a thousand people.

After the death of his first wife, Strauss was married twice: 4 years he was married to the singer Angelina Dietrich, and in 1882 became his wife Adele Deutsch. Despite three marriages, their children were not the composer. The last years of his life Johann Strauss hardly out of the house, making an exception only in honor of the 25th anniversary of the operetta "Die Fledermaus". During this exciting trip he caught a bad cold. Straus died of pneumonia at the age of 73 years.

Adele, the widow of the composer dedicated to the creation of Johann Strauss Museum, collecting all the interesting letters and notes. The museum, which is housed in a former apartment on Pratershtrasse collected musical instruments the composer, paintings and furniture, scores of waltzes, as well as personal belongings of Strauss. In addition, there are exhibited things of his father and his brothers Strauss. The interiors of the museum recreates the atmosphere of the time, where he once lived and worked Johann Strauss, who gave the world 496 great works.