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
Friday, 03. September 199919.00 o' clock Gstaad ⁄ Festivalzelt
Concert in Gstaad
Franz Bauer-Theussl conductor Eva Lind soprano
Program Johann Strauss II : Overture to the operetta «Waldmeister» (Woodruff) Johann Strauss II : «Draußen in Sievering blüht schon der Flieder», Walzerlied aus der Operette «Die Tänzerin Fanny Elssler» Johann Strauss II : Tempestuous in Love and Dance op. 393 Johann Strauss II : Fata Morgana / Polka mazurka op. 330 Johann Strauss II : Egyptian March op. 335 Johann Strauss II : Voices of Spring / Waltz op. 410 Johann Strauss II : Furioso Polka op. 260 Break Johann Strauss II : Overture to «A Night in Venice» Johann Strauss II : Czárdás from "Die Fledermaus" Johann Strauss II : Tick Tock / Quick polka op. 365 Johann Strauss II : Russian March Fantasy op. 353 Johann Strauss II : At the Double! / Quick polka op. 348 Johann Strauss II : Spiel´ ich die Unschuld vom Lande, Couplet der Adele aus der Operette «Die Fledermaus» Johann Strauss II : «Mein Herr Marquis», Lachcouplet der Adele aus der Operette "Die Fledermaus" Johann Strauss II : The Blue Danube / Waltz op. 314 Encore Johann Strauss II : Thunder and Lightning / Quick polka op. 324 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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