The formal opening of the Suez Canal -- linking Port Said, on the Mediterranean Sea, and the Egyptian port of Suez, on the Red Sea -- was celebrated on 16 November 1869 by an inaugural ceremony at Port Said. On the following day sixty-eight vessels of various nationalities began the passage, arriving at Suez four days later. The opening of this artificial waterway created considerable interest around the world, and in Vienna gave rise to Anton Bittner's burlesque, Nach Ägypten (Into Egypt), presented at the Theater an der Wien on 26 December that year. It was here as a processional march for Egyptian warriors before the final scene, that the Viennese public first became acquainted with the sinuous themes of Johann Strauss's Ägyptischer Marsch. The composer, ever mindful of current affairs, had in fact written the piece for his 1869 summer concert season in Pavlovsk -- shared that year with his brother Josef -- and had conducted its première at the Vauxhall Pavilion there on 6 July (= 24 June, Russian calendar) at a benefit concert for the two brothers.
Johann Strauss II. : Egyptian March op. 335 © by WJSO-Archive
Sunday, 02. May 201011.00 o' clock Vienna ⁄ Musikverein ⁄ The Große Musikvereinssaal
Spring concert at the Musikverein Vienna
Alfred Eschwé conductor
Program Johann Strauss II : Overture to the operetta «Carnival in Rome» Johann Strauss II : Parisian Polka op. 382 Johann Strauss II : Eljen A Magyar! « Long Live the Magyar!» / Quick polka op. 332 Johann Strauss II : Fairy tales from the Orient / Waltz op. 444 Johann Strauss II : Intermezzo from «Thousand an One Nights» Johann Strauss II : Warsaw Polka op. 84 Johann Strauss II : Farewell to Saint Petersburg / Waltz op. 210 Break Johann Strauss II : Overture to «A Night in Venice» Johann Strauss II : Souvenir de Nizza / Walzer op. 200 Johann Strauss II : L’Africaine Quadrille op. 299 Johann Strauss II : Egyptian March op. 335 Johann Strauss II : Pesther Csárdás op. 23 Johann Strauss II : Heiligenstadt Rendezvouz Polka op. 78 Johann Strauss II : The Blue Danube / Waltz op. 314 Encore Johann Strauss I : Radetzky March op. 228
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