Pleasure trips by train to places close to — or even some distance from — Vienna, or perhaps by steamship to faraway destinations such as Constantinople, Cairo or even further into the Orient, became extremely popular in the second half of the nineteenth century. And so in the winter of 1863–4 Johann Strauss II composed the quick polka with the title Vergnügungszug, even including in the instrumentation a ‘conductor’s horn’, which was used to sound the signal for a train to depart. The various railway companies, at that time competing with one another, regularly offered their passengers so-called ‘excursion trains’ to attractive destinations.
Johann Strauss II. : Pleasure Train / Polka schnell op. 281 © by WJSO-Archive
Saturday, 12. March 200519.30 o' clock Vienna ⁄ Musikverein ⁄ The Große Musikvereinssaal
Concert at the Musikverein Vienna
Martin Sieghart conductor
Program Ludwig van Beethoven : Twelfe Contredances for Orchestra Franz Schubert : "Kupelwieser-Walzer" für Klavier, D Anh. I, 14; instrumentiert von Gottfried von Einem Johann Strauss I : Cachucha-Galopp op. 97 Josef Strauss : From Afar / Polka mazurka op. 270 Josef Strauss : Music of the Spheres / Waltz op. 235 Josef Strauss : Forward! / Quick Polka op. 127 Break Johann Strauss II : Overture to the operetta "The Gypsy Baron" Johann Strauss II : Greetings from Austria / Polka mazurka op. 359 Johann Strauss II : Eljen A Magyar! « Long Live the Magyar!» / Quick polka op. 332 Johann Strauss II : Roses from the South / Waltz op. 388 Johann & Josef Strauss : Pizzicato Polka Johann Strauss II : Excursion Train / Quick polka op. 281 Johann Strauss II : Emperor Waltz op. 437 Encore Johann Strauss I : Radetzky March op. 228
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