约翰施特劳斯管弦乐团由AndréRieu于1987年创立。在1988年1月1日举行首次音乐会时，管弦乐队由12位音乐家组成。到2008年，乐团已扩大到43名成员，并定期与嘉宾音乐家和歌手如Carla Maffioletti，Mirusia Louwerse，Carmen Monarcha和Platin Tenors合作演出。管弦乐团以表现出非凡的轻浮，与观众开玩笑，表演各种滑稽动作的经典作品而闻名。

乐团现在在非常大的舞台上演奏了50到60位音乐家。在乐团首次巡回欧洲时，人们对华尔兹音乐产生了新的兴趣。复兴始于荷兰，他们从肖斯塔科维奇的综艺管弦乐团录制了第二支华尔兹。因此，Rieu被称为现代“华尔兹之王”，这个称号最初授予Johann Strauss II。

Rieu和他的管弦乐队在整个欧洲，北美，日本和澳大利亚演出。他们获得了包括两项世界音乐奖在内的多项奖项，其录音在许多国家都获得了金奖和白金奖，其中包括荷兰8倍的白金奖。

Rieu在他自己的马斯特里赫特工作室录制DVD和CD曲目，包括各种古典音乐以及流行和民间音乐以及来自着名配乐和音乐剧的音乐。他热闹的管弦乐演讲与有效的营销相结合，吸引了全世界观众欣赏这一古典音乐的风格。

他的一些管弦乐队的表演已在英国和美国的PBS电视网播出，如2003年在都柏林播放的Andre Rieu Live，在爱尔兰都柏林拍摄，2005年在托斯卡纳拍摄的AndréRieuLive在广场拍摄Della Repubblica在托斯卡纳的科尔托纳村庄。

The Johann Strauss Orchestra was founded by André Rieu in 1987. At the time of its first concert on January 1, 1988, the orchestra consisted of 12 musicians. By 2008 the orchestra had expanded to 43 members and has performed regularly with guest musicians and singers such as Carla Maffioletti, Mirusia Louwerse, Carmen Monarcha and the Platin Tenors. The orchestra is well known for performing classical works with a distinctly unorthodox frivolity, joking with the audience and performing all sorts of antics.

The Orchestra now performs with between 50 and 60 musicians on very large stages. At the time the Orchestra first toured Europe, there emerged a renewed interest in waltz music. The revival began in the Netherlands and was ignited by their recording of the Second Waltz from Shostakovich's Suite for Variety Orchestra. As a result, Rieu became known as the modern "Waltz King", a title originally bestowed upon Johann Strauss II.

Rieu and his orchestra have performed throughout Europe, in North America, Japan, and Australia. Winning a number of awards including two World Music Awards, their recordings have gone gold and platinum in many countries, including 8-times Platinum in the Netherlands.

Rieu records both DVD and CD repertoire at his own studios in Maastricht in a wide range of classical music as well as popular and folk music plus music from well-known soundtracks and musical theatre. His lively orchestral presentations, in tandem with effective marketing, have attracted worldwide audiences to this subgenre of classical music.

Some of his orchestra's performances have been broadcast in the United Kingdom and the United States on the PBS television network such as the 2003 airing of Andre Rieu Live in Dublin, filmed in Dublin, Ireland, and 2005's André Rieu Live in Tuscany filmed in the Piazza Della Repubblica in the village of Cortona in Tuscany.