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
Thursday, 11. June 200919.00 o' clock Vienna ⁄ Musikverein ⁄ The Große Musikvereinssaal
Concert at the Musikverein Vienna
Rudolf Streicher conductor
Program Johann Strauss II : Ouverture to «Die Fledermaus» Josef Strauss : On Holiday Travels! / Quick polka op. 133 Johann Strauss II : Peasants Polka / Polka française op. 276 Johann Strauss II : Eljen A Magyar! « Long Live the Magyar!» / Quick polka op. 332 Johann Strauss II : Czech Polka op. 13 Johann Strauss II : Travel Adventures / Waltz op. 227 Johann Strauss II : Russian March op. 426 Johann Strauss I : Chinese Galopp op. 20 Josef Strauss : In a Flash / Quick polka op. 230 Break Johann Strauss II : Overture to «A Night in Venice» Eduard Strauss I : Clear the Track! / Quick polka op. 45 Johann Strauss II : Emperor Waltz op. 437 Johann Strauss II : Thunder and Lightning / Quick polka op. 324 Johann & Josef Strauss : Pizzicato Polka Johann Strauss II : From the Banks of the Danube / Quick polka op. 356 Encore Johann Strauss I : Radetzky March op. 228
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