Pleasure trips by train to places close to — or even some distance from — Vienna, or perhaps by steamship to faraway destinations such as Constantinople, Cairo or even further into the Orient, became extremely popular in the second half of the nineteenth century. And so in the winter of 1863–4 Johann Strauss II composed the quick polka with the title Vergnügungszug, even including in the instrumentation a ‘conductor’s horn’, which was used to sound the signal for a train to depart. The various railway companies, at that time competing with one another, regularly offered their passengers so-called ‘excursion trains’ to attractive destinations.
Johann Strauss II. : Pleasure Train / Polka schnell op. 281 © by WJSO-Archive
Sunday, 26. October 200811.00 o' clock Vienna ⁄ Musikverein ⁄ The Große Musikvereinssaal
Konzert zum Nationalfeiertag
Johannes Wildner conductor & speaker
Program Johann Strauss II : Ouverture to «Die Fledermaus» Johann Strauss II : From the Banks of the Danube / Quick polka op. 356 Johann Strauss II : Greetings from Austria / Polka mazurka op. 359 Johann Strauss II : Where the Lemon Trees Blossom / Waltz op. 364 Josef Strauss : Jockey / Quick polka op. 278 Johann Strauss II : Egyptian March op. 335 Johann Strauss II : Tales from the Vienna Woods / Waltz op. 325 Break Johann Strauss II : Overture to the operetta "The Gypsy Baron" Johann Strauss II : Fata Morgana / Polka mazurka op. 330 Josef Strauss : My Character is Love and Joy / Waltz op. 263 Johann Strauss II : Excursion Train / Quick polka op. 281 Johann & Josef Strauss : Pizzicato Polka Johann Strauss II : Hunting / Quick polka op. 373 Johann Strauss II : The Blue Danube / Waltz op. 314 Encore Johann Strauss II : Thunder and Lightning / Quick polka op. 324 Josef Strauss : Without a Care! / Quick polka op. 271 Johann Strauss I : Radetzky March op. 228
Veranstalter: Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien Zyklus: Außerordentliches Gesellschaftskonzert Quelle: Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien Bemerkungen: Alfred Eschwé mußte seine Teilnahme an dem Konzert absagen. Dankenswerterweise erklärte sich Johannes Wildner bereit, die Leitung des Konzertes zu übernehmen.
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