‘On Tuesday evening the Medical Students’ Ball was held in the elegant and newly decorated rooms of the Sofiensaal establishment,’ the Vienna daily Neues Fremden-Blatt reported two days later, on Thursday 24 January 1867, and went on, ‘Joseph Strauss played an enchanting waltz, which was greeted with much applause and has already been published by Spina.’ ‘To the gentlemen students of medicine at the University of Vienna’ is the dedication which can be found on the title page of the piano edition of the new waltz. The term ‘delirium’ (‘Delirien’ is the plural form in German) is used to refer to a form psychosis with disorders of consciousness and orientation, sometimes with delusions. Such an acute psychic disorder can have organic causes, or be the result of drugs being consumed or withdrawn. Josef Strauss begins his new composition with an introduction which is completely atypical of previous Viennese waltzes: it is melancholy music which is struggling for freedom, which takes its direction from Richard Wagner’s art of instrumentation. The music is driven along for twenty-seven bars in 12/8 time, an ‘allegro maestoso’ with a nervous tremolo and frequent modulations as well as a series of diminished seventh chords, and in it there is a pathological component to be heard which certainly does justice to the title. In the spring and summer of 1867 the Viennese music publisher Carl Anton Spina quickly brought out an edition for piano solo and then one for piano duet, followed by an arrangement for violin and piano and, of course, the orchestral parts. Josef Strauss’s waltz Delirien is one of his best and most popular compositions, not least because of its introduction, a stroke of genius that places the work far above the reason why it was composed, that is to provide dance music for the medical students’ ball.
Friday, 03. July 201520.00 o' clock Potsdam ⁄ Neuer Lustgarten
Alles Walzer A Viennese waltz night in Potsdam Lustgarten
Johannes Wildner conductor Anita Goetz soprano Holger Wemhoff moderator vienna waltz project ballet company
Program Johann Strauss II : Ouverture to «Die Fledermaus» Johann Strauss II : Bandits Galop / Polka schnell op. 378 Johann Strauss II : «Mein Herr Marquis», Lachcouplet der Adele aus der Operette "Die Fledermaus" Josef Strauss : Delirien / Waltz op. 212 Johann Strauss II : Cuckoo Polka / Polka française op. 336 Johann Strauss II : Tick Tock / Quick polka op. 365 Johann Strauss II : Spiel´ ich die Unschuld vom Lande, Couplet der Adele aus der Operette «Die Fledermaus» Johann Strauss II : Emperor Waltz op. 437 Break Johann Strauss II : Overture to the operetta "The Gypsy Baron" Johann Strauss II : Arie der Annina «Was mir der Zufall gab» aus der Operette «Eine Nacht in Venedig» Johann Strauss II : Vienna Blood / Waltz op. 354 Josef Strauss : Fire-Proof! / Polka française op. 269 Franz Lehár : «Meine Lippen, sie küssen so heiß», Song from Operetta «Giuditta» Johann Strauss II : We’re Not That Worried / Quick polka (Galop) op. 413 Johann Strauss II : The Blue Danube / Waltz op. 314 Encore Franz Lehár : Vilja-song from the operetta "The Merry Widow" Josef Strauss : Without a Care! / Quick polka op. 271 Johann Strauss I : Radetzky March op. 228
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