Spring concert in the Golden Hall

Johann Strauss II
Csárdás from the opera «Knight Pásmán»
op. 441 (1892)

In his review of The Gypsy Baron the music critic and writer Max Kalbeck caught people’s attention with the following remark, ‘After the interesting indications which Johann Strauss II has given us in this his latest work, we cherish more intensely than ever the happy hope that we will soon be able to greet the graceful muse of this composer of genius in the place where we have long wished to meet her: in the opera house.’
Comments like these certainly fell on fruitful ground with Strauss, as his own artistic intentions were themselves heading in the same direction. However, it was a path that would lead the composer to failure. While his Simplicius, with its leanings towards Wagner and a patriotically old German atmosphere, was a strange hybrid of opera and operetta and no more than a modest success, the work which Strauss composed for the Court Opera House, Knight Pasman, op. 441, first performed there on New Year’s Day 1892 and specifically described as a ‘comic opera’, was a resounding flop.

Although the audience at the eagerly awaited premiere gave the work a reasonably friendly reception, the reviews which appeared over the following days unsparingly laid bare its weaknesses. While there was overall agreement that the opera was a failure, the critics did concede with the same unanimity that the ballet music at the beginning of the third act was an absolute masterpiece, and that it was its czardas that was particularly captivating. There are very few such dances among Johann Strauss’s works; one thinks of the Pest Czardas written in 1846 for the Hungarian city of (Buda)pest and Rosalinde’s aria from the second act of Die Fledermaus.

It is astonishing how well Strauss was able to empathize with what were for him exotic musical idioms. This is especially the case with the Hungarian style, or more exactly what people thought of as such before Bartók and Kodály — and the czardas from Knight Pasman is a brilliant example.

Synopsis: Dr. Thomas Aigner

Translation: Dr. Leigh H. Bailey

Johann Strauss II. : Opera «Ritter Pázmán»
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Sunday, 15. May 201611.00 o' clock
Vienna ⁄ Musikverein ⁄ The Große Musikvereinssaal

Spring concert in the Golden Hall
«Eduard-Strauss-Schwerpunkt» anlässlich des 100. Todestages

Johannes Wildner conductor

Program
Heinz Sandauer : Festive Fanfare of the Vienna Johann Strauss Orchestra
Johann Strauss II : Overture to the operetta "The Gypsy Baron"
Eduard Strauss I : Brakes off / Quick polka op. 238
Josef Strauss : Heart’s Sorrow / Orchestral Fantasy *
Eduard Strauss I : Jubilee Waltz / Waltz op. 296
Josef Strauss : Ardent Love / Polka mazurka op. 129
Johann Strauss II : Vienna Blood / Waltz op. 354
Johann Strauss II : Thunder and Lightning / Quick polka op. 324
Break Josef Strauss : Allegro fantastique / Orchestral Fantasy*
Josef Strauss : Mysterious Powers of Attraction (Dynamiden) / Waltz op. 173
Johann Strauss II : Csárdás from the opera «Knight Pásmán» op. 441
Johann Strauss II : The Sighs of the Liguorian Monks / Playful polka op. 57
Johann & Josef Strauss : Pizzicato Polka
Eduard Strauss I : Who’ll Join the Dance? / Quick polka op. 251
Johann Strauss II : The Blue Danube / Waltz op. 314
Encore Johann Strauss II : Niko-Polka (Quick polka) op. 228
Josef Strauss : Eingesendet / Polka schnell op. 240
Johann Strauss I : Radetzky March op. 228

Hinweis:
* Bei den mit dem Stern gekennzeichneten Werken handelt es sich um eine österreichische Erstaufführung.
Wir danken der Wienbibliothek im Rathaus für die Zurverfügungstellung des Notenmaterials und die wertvolle wissenschaftliche Kooperation!

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