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.
Wednesday, 26. October 202211.00 o' clock Vienna ⁄ Musikverein ⁄ The Große Musikvereinssaal
National Day Concert
Johannes Wildner conductor
Program Johann Strauss II : Overture to the operetta «Waldmeister» (Woodruff) Joseph Lanner : Steyerische Tänze op. 165 Josef Strauss : The Dancing Muse / Polka mazurka op. 266 Josef Strauss : On Holiday Travels! / Quick polka op. 133 Josef Strauss : Allegro fantastique / Orchestral Fantasy* Josef Strauss : Watercolours / Waltz op. 258 Break Franz von Suppè : Fatinitza March Franz von Suppè : Ouverture zu «Ein Morgen, ein Mittag, ein Abend in Wien» Franz Lehár : Gold and Silver / Waltz op. 79 Franz Lehár : Zwanzinetta based on motifs from the operetta «Eva» Johann Strauss II : Cuckoo Polka / Polka française op. 336 Eduard Strauss I : By Express Post / Quick polka op. 259 Johann Strauss II : The Blue Danube / Waltz op. 314
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