Just like his illustrious Austrian colleague Johann Strauss II., Émile Waldteufel also came from a family of successful musicians and, just like Strauss, his musical production was devoted to composing dance music (mainly waltzes and polkas); this earned him the nickname "Strauss of Paris". The Estudiantina waltz is a musical arrangement, made in 1883, by Emile Waldteufel based on a melody previously composed in 1881 by Paul Lacome. Waldteufel first composed a version for two pianos of this piec...