Writing to his brother, Eduard, on Saturday 2 April 1892, Johann Strauss remarked: "I have sketched a new pizzicato-polka for your concerts in Hamburg. It is this time made slightly more interesting, in accordance with current taste (without really being suited to a concert performance with regard to the musical content). It allows an affected manner of performance - the main thing in a pizzicato number. For where there is no 'singing-tone', a success can only lie, I must admit, in a coquettish performance - since neither piano nor forte offer sufficient variety in such an unusual piece ....." The polka was later inserted as the Act 3 entr'acte in Johann's operette Fürstin Ninetta (1893), where it seems to have been used for the children's ballet sequence. Text: Peter Kemp, 1978 The Johann Strauss Society of Great Britain
Johann Strauss II. : New Pizzicato Polka, from the Operetta «Fürstin Ninetta» op. 449 © by WJSO-Archive
Friday, 22. December 200620.00 o' clock Madrid ⁄ Teatro Real
Concert in Madrid
Ola Rudner conductor
Program Franz von Suppè : Ouverture to «Mozart, an artist's life» Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Five Contredances Joseph Lanner : Die Mozartisten / Walzer op. 196 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Six german dances Johann Strauss II : Artists Quadrille op. 71 Johann Strauss I : Cachucha-Galopp op. 97 Break Johann Strauss II : Overture to the operetta "The Gypsy Baron" Johann Strauss II : Cuckoo Polka / Polka française op. 336 Johann Strauss II : Let’ s Away! op. 383 Josef Strauss : Music of the Spheres / Waltz op. 235 Johann Strauss II : New Pizzicato Polka, from the Operetta «Fürstin Ninetta» op. 449 Johann Strauss II : Light of Heart / Quick polka op. 319 Johann Strauss II : The Blue Danube / Waltz op. 314 Encore Josef Strauss : Jockey / Quick polka op. 278 Johann Strauss II : Thunder and Lightning / Quick polka op. 324 Johann Strauss I : Moan gallop op. 9 Johann Strauss I : Radetzky March op. 228
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