Immediately after the close of the official 1869 Vienna Carnival calendar, Johann and Josef Strauss began preparations for their joint Russian summer season of concerts in Pavlovsk from 9 May (= 27 April, Russian calendar) until 10 October (= 28 September). But a number of concert engagements had to be fulfilled before their departure, including a journey by the Strauss orchestra under the direction of all three brothers, Johann, Josef and Eduard, to the Hungarian town of Pest on the banks of the Danube. To coincide with the opening of Pest's imposing new Redoutensaal building, the brothers had organised two concerts there on 16 and 17 March. It was at the first of these that Johann conducted his quick polka Éljen a Magyar!, composed especially for the occasion and dedicated "to the Hungarian Nation". From his early days as a composer Johann was as much at home with the music of Hungary as he was with that of his native Vienna, and this exciting work, further enhanced at its première by the participation of the Budapest Men's Choral Association, was triumphantly applauded and had to be repeated several times. The Coda of the work features a fleeting quotation from the Rákóczi March, which Berlioz had earlier utilised in his Damnation of Faust (1846), but which owes its origins to the patriotic Magyar Rákóczi song.
Johann Strauss II. Hail to Hungary! «Eljen A Magyar» / Polka schnell op. 332 © by WJSO-Archive
Sunday, 01. January 201718.20 o' clock Television ⁄ ORF III
TV transmission Anniversary concert | 1966 - 2016 | 50 years Vienna Johann Strauss Orchestra
Alfred Eschwé conductor Karina Fibich director Barbara Rett presentation
Program Johann Strauss II : Overture to the operetta «Waldmeister» (Woodruff) Johann Strauss II : The Bayadere / Quick polka op. 351 Josef Strauss : Village Swallows from Austria / Waltz op. 164 Josef Strauss : The Dancing Muse / Polka mazurka op. 266 Josef Strauss : Transactions / Waltz op. 184 Johann Strauss II : Tales from the Vienna Woods / Waltz op. 325 Paul Hertel : Happy Birthday Johann Strauss! Johann Strauss II : Perpetual Motion / Musical joke op. 257 Johann Strauss II : Martha Quadrille op. 46 Johann Strauss II : Click-Clack Galop / Quick polka op. 466 Johann Strauss II : Emperor Waltz op. 437 Johann Strauss II : Eljen A Magyar! « Long Live the Magyar!» / Quick polka op. 332 Johann Strauss I : Radetzky March op. 228
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