Writing to his brother, Eduard, on Saturday 2 April 1892, Johann Strauss remarked: "I have sketched a new pizzicato-polka for your concerts in Hamburg. It is this time made slightly more interesting, in accordance with current taste (without really being suited to a concert performance with regard to the musical content). It allows an affected manner of performance - the main thing in a pizzicato number. For where there is no 'singing-tone', a success can only lie, I must admit, in a coquettish performance - since neither piano nor forte offer sufficient variety in such an unusual piece ....." The polka was later inserted as the Act 3 entr'acte in Johann's operette Fürstin Ninetta (1893), where it seems to have been used for the children's ballet sequence. Text: Peter Kemp, 1978 The Johann Strauss Society of Great Britain
Johann Strauss II. : New Pizzicato Polka, from the Operetta «Fürstin Ninetta» op. 449 © by WJSO-Archive
Wednesday, 26. October 201111.00 o' clock Vienna ⁄ Musikverein ⁄ The Große Musikvereinssaal
Konzert zum Nationalfeiertag
Johannes Wildner conductor
Program Johann Strauss II : Ouverture to «Die Fledermaus» Eduard Strauss I : Hektograph / Polka schnell op. 186 Josef Strauss : Ardent Love / Polka mazurka op. 129 Josef Strauss : Delirien / Waltz op. 212 Johann Strauss II : Chit-Chat Polka op. 214 Johann Strauss II : Thunder and Lightning / Quick polka op. 324 Break Johann Strauss II : Light of Heart / Quick polka op. 319 Johann Strauss II : Anna Polka op. 117 Josef Strauss : Music of the Spheres / Waltz op. 235 Johann Strauss II : Czardas from the opera «Knight Pasman» op. 441 Johann Strauss II : New Pizzicato Polka, from the Operetta «Fürstin Ninetta» op. 449 Eduard Strauss I : Clear the Track! / Quick polka op. 45 Johann Strauss II : The Blue Danube / Waltz op. 314 Encore Johann & Josef Strauss : Pizzicato Polka Johann Strauss I : Radetzky March op. 228
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