The formal opening of the Suez Canal -- linking Port Said, on the Mediterranean Sea, and the Egyptian port of Suez, on the Red Sea -- was celebrated on 16 November 1869 by an inaugural ceremony at Port Said. On the following day sixty-eight vessels of various nationalities began the passage, arriving at Suez four days later. The opening of this artificial waterway created considerable interest around the world, and in Vienna gave rise to Anton Bittner's burlesque, Nach Ägypten (Into Egypt), presented at the Theater an der Wien on 26 December that year. It was here as a processional march for Egyptian warriors before the final scene, that the Viennese public first became acquainted with the sinuous themes of Johann Strauss's Ägyptischer Marsch. The composer, ever mindful of current affairs, had in fact written the piece for his 1869 summer concert season in Pavlovsk -- shared that year with his brother Josef -- and had conducted its première at the Vauxhall Pavilion there on 6 July (= 24 June, Russian calendar) at a benefit concert for the two brothers.
Johann Strauss II. : Egyptian March op. 335 © by WJSO-Archive
Sunday, 18. December 200519.00 o' clock Moskau ⁄ Haus der Musik
Concert in Moscow 2nd Russia tour
Ola Rudner conductor
Program Johann Strauss II : Ouverture to «Die Fledermaus» Johann Strauss II : Anna Polka op. 117 Josef Strauss : Storm Polka op. 75 Johann Strauss II : Where the Lemon Trees Blossom / Waltz op. 364 Josef Strauss : Ardent Love / Polka mazurka op. 129 Johann Strauss I : Cachucha-Galopp op. 97 Johann Strauss II : Emperor Waltz op. 437 Break Johann Strauss II : Overture to the Operetta «Indigo and the Forty Thieves» Johann & Josef Strauss : Pizzicato Polka Johann, Josef & Eduard Strauss II. : Sharpshooters Quadrille Josef Strauss : Mysterious Powers of Attraction (Dynamiden) / Waltz op. 173 Johann Strauss II : Egyptian March op. 335 Eduard Strauss I : Clear the Track! / Quick polka op. 45 Johann Strauss II : The Blue Danube / Waltz op. 314 Encore Eduard Strauss I : By Express Post / Quick polka op. 259 Josef Strauss : Eingesendet / Polka schnell op. 240 Johann Strauss II : Furioso Polka op. 260 Johann Strauss I : Radetzky March op. 228
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