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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 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.