The polka mazurka Brennende Liebe (Ardent Love), op. 129, was composed by Josef Strauss in Pavlovsk in 1862. However, there it was performed as Amorette, or Küsse mich (Kiss me), with the opus number 122, although there is no connection to the polka française Amourette, op. 147, which he composed later. Josef gave the first performance of the work as one of several new pieces at his first benefit concert in Pavlovsk on 1 [13 NS] September 1862. The polka mazurka must have been well received as it was, rather unusually, also performed on the two following days. In the month to the final concert of the season it appeared on the programme no fewer than ten times. After his return to Vienna, Josef presented the piece to the public there on 9 November at the Sperl establishment, for the first time under the title Brennende Liebe — ‘ardent love’. It is now no longer possible to determine who was responsible for the renaming and why it was done. The new title is taken from one of the everyday German names for plants of the genus Lychnis, variously known in English as, for example ‘ragged robin’ or ‘cuckooflower’. The plant, shown on the title page of the first edition for piano, has bright red flowers. The romantic associations of the German name were explored in a poem by Julius Mosen which appeared in 1836: ’In my little garden there smile many flowers bright and red, But of them all it’s burning love which troubles heart and head.’
Wednesday, 01. May 201311.00 o' clock Wels / Stadthalle
Concert in Wels
Alfred Eschwé conductor
Program Johann Strauss II : Overture to the operetta «Carnival in Rome» Josef Strauss : Mille fleurs / Polka française op. 4 Josef Strauss : "Gedenke mein" / Polka schnell op. 38 Johann Strauss II : With Us at Home / Waltz op. 361 Josef Strauss : Ardent Love / Polka mazurka op. 129 Josef Strauss : For ever / Quick polka op. 193 Josef Strauss : Watercolours / Waltz op. 258 Break Franz von Suppè : Overture to «Banditenstreiche» Johann Strauss II : Voices of Spring / Waltz op. 410 Johann Strauss II : Bandits Galop / Polka schnell op. 378 Josef Strauss : Peasants Polka / Polka Mazurka op. 10 Johann Strauss II : Melodien-Quadrille op. 112 Johann Strauss II : New Pizzicato Polka, from the Operetta «Fürstin Ninetta» op. 449 Johann Strauss II : Hunting / Quick polka op. 373 Johann Strauss II : The Blue Danube / Waltz op. 314 Encore Johann Strauss I : Radetzky March op. 228
Anmerkung: Benefizkonzert der Lions Clubs Wels-Pollheim und Wels-Land-Traunau
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