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
Sunday, 19. October 201411.00 o' clock Vienna ⁄ Musikverein ⁄ The Große Musikvereinssaal
Fall Concert at Vienna Musikverein
Alfred Eschwé conductor
Program Johann Strauss II : Overture to «The Queen’s Lace Handkerchief» Johann Strauss II : Postillon d'Amour / Polka-française op. 317 Johann Strauss II : Express Polka / Polka schnell op. 311 Johann Strauss II : The Publicists / Waltz op. 321 Johann Strauss II : Town and Country / Polka mazurka op. 322 Johann Strauss II : Light of Heart / Quick polka op. 319 Johann Strauss II : Farewell to Saint Petersburg / Waltz op. 210 Break Franz von Suppè : Overture to «Light Cavalry» Johann Strauss II : North Sea Pictures / Waltz op. 390 Hans Christian Lumbye : Copenhagen Railway Steam Gallop Johann Strauss II : Orpheus Quadrille op. 236 Johann Strauss II : Egyptian March op. 335 Johann Strauss II : Eljen A Magyar! « Long Live the Magyar!» / Quick polka op. 332 Johann Strauss II : Be embraced, ye millions! / Waltz op. 443
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