Under the eighty-two-year-old Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Austrian army, Count Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, the Habsburg troops had won a decisive victory over the Italian forces at Custozza in August 1848. Johann Strauss senior commemorated this significant event with his Radetzky-Marsch, which was first heard in the Vienna Wasserglacis on 31 August 1848, at a "Victory celebration to honour the courageous army in Italy, and for the benefit of the wounded soldiers". Composed in honour of Count Radetzy, the march is dedicated to the victorious Austrian army. Text: Peter Kemp, 1978 Johann Strauss Society of Great Britain.
Johann Strauss I : Radetzky-March op. 228 © by «Kulturverein Wiener Blut»
Saturday, 08. March 200319.30 o' clock Vienna ⁄ Musikverein ⁄ The Große Musikvereinssaal
Concert at the Musikverein Vienna
Martin Sieghart conductor Walther Schulz solo cello
Program Johann Strauss II : Overture to the operetta «Waldmeister» (Woodruff) Josef Strauss : Moulinet Polka / Polka française op. 57 Josef Strauss : Chatterboxes: musical joke / Polka op. 245 Josef Strauss : Village Swallows from Austria / Waltz op. 164 Johann Strauss II : Romanze No. 2 in g-moll for Violoncello & Orchestra op. 255 Johann Strauss II : Thunder and Lightning / Quick polka op. 324 Carl Michael Ziehrer : Viennese Girls / Waltz op. 388 Johann Strauss II : Egyptian March op. 335 Johann Strauss II : The Blue Danube / Waltz op. 314 Encore Johann Strauss I : Radetzky March op. 228
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