Even despite the fact that Johann Strauss Jr. was lionized by his celebrated contemporaries Johannes Brahms and Richard Wagner, people in subsequent generations have come to regard his waltzes as droll but unsophisticated music better suited to plebian tastes.
約翰史特勞斯二世的作品雖被同時代的布拉姆斯及華格納所推崇，但後世不少愛樂人卻將這些舞曲視為難登大雅之堂的輕音樂，只適合普羅大眾欣賞。