The Viennese custom of naming waltzes after ball festivals and ball festivals after waltzes goes back to Lanner, Strauss I and their contemporaries. Strauss II elevated this practice to an art, for Lehár it became a welcome source of popularity and income. When Princess Pauline Metternich planned a "gold and silver" redoubt after a "white" and a "red-white" for carnival in 1902, she revived the old custom. She commissioned the young conductor of the "26er", Franz Lehár, to do it. On Thursday, January 27, 1902, the redoubt took place. According to tradition, the waltz was always played first as a concert piece, with an introduction and a coda. When the conducting composer had accepted the applause and the Archduke had completed the lap of honor with the Princess, the general dance began. It was different with the “Gold and Silver” redoubt. «Hardly the first theme sounded when the people started chattering, laughing and dancing. There was a few hand claps at the end - they asked for a repeat - and that was all». Nobody could have guessed that the defeat of the evening would become a worldwide success. Least of all the composer himself. But he created the symbolic and musical transition from the golden to the silver age of the operetta.
Sunday, 18. September 202211.00 o' clock Grafenegg / Auditorium
Strauss matinee in Grafenegg
Alfred Eschwé conductor
Program Franz Lehár : Overture to « Viennese Woman» Josef Strauss : Viennese Life / Polka française op. 218 Josef Strauss : Allerlei / Polka schnell op. 219 Johann Strauss II : Viennese Bonbons / Waltz op. 307 Josef Strauss : Arm in Arm / Polka mazurka op. 215 Johann Strauss II : Tempestuous in Love and Dance op. 393 Johann Strauss II : Vienna Blood / Waltz op. 354 Break Carl Michael Ziehrer : Walk In / Waltz op. 518 Carl Michael Ziehrer : Release! / Quick polka op. 386 Johann Strauss II : Cuckoo Polka / Polka française op. 336 Johann Strauss II : Artists Quadrille op. 201 Johann Strauss I : Moan gallop op. 9 Franz Lehár : Zwanzinetta based on motifs from the operetta «Eva» Franz Lehár : Gold and Silver / Waltz op. 79 Encore Johann Strauss II : Hunting / Quick polka op. 373 Johann Strauss I : Radetzky March op. 228
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