Bayer was also friends with the Viennese waltz composer Johann Strauss II and it was Bayer who completed the unfinished Strauss Cinderella ballet, Aschenbroedel in 1900, Strauss having died in 1899 leaving a completed draft of the work lacking its orchestration.
Bayer had a close relationship with the famous Viennese waltz composer Johann Strauss II. Bayer was responsible for completing the unfinished Strauss Cinderella ballet, Aschenbroedel, in 1900, after Strauss's death in 1899 left his work without orchestration.