Ever since his début in October 1844, almost a quarter of a century before he arranged this quick polka, Johann Strauss II had built up an extraordinarily good reputation as a composer of dance music — both at home and abroad. It was not until the fifth decade of his life that he turned to the then modern genre of operetta. Any number of anecdotes surround his decision to go for success as a composer of operetta in the late 1860s and early 1870s. Most of these stories have no basis at all in reality. What is generally left unmentioned is that one of Strauss’s motives had to be to ensure a respectable income to be able to keep up the standard of living to which his wife and other members of the extended Strauss family were accustomed. He was no longer engaged to perform in Russia, while during the 1860s in Vienna the military bands, with their cheap but excellent musicians, had come to be serious competitors for the Strauss Orchestra. Looking at the great success of Jacques Offenbach’s operettas in Vienna, Strauss realised that there was good money to be earned in the field of musical entertainment in the theatre, especially as the melodies of an operetta could also be recycled and sold as dances. Strauss had, however, at that time had no experience of setting words to music, let alone of putting their content into music. It was a happy chance that an experienced theatre conductor and stage composer in the person of Richard Genée could be found to assist Johann Strauss II with the composition of his first nine operettas, providing advice and above all practical help. Finally, on 10 February 1871, Strauss’s first operetta, Indigo und die vierzig Räuber (Indigo and the Forty Thieves), had its premiere in the Theater an der Wien.
Johann Strauss II. : On the Double / Polka schnell op. 348 © by «Kulturverein Wiener Blut»
Thursday, 01. May 201411.00 o' clock Vienna ⁄ Musikverein ⁄ The Große Musikvereinssaal
Frühlingskonzert im Goldenen Saal
Johannes Wildner conductor
Program Johann Strauss II : Overture to the operetta «Waldmeister» (Woodruff) Johann Strauss II : We’re Not That Worried / Quick polka (Galop) op. 413 Josef Strauss : Gnomen / Polka française op. 217 Josef Strauss : Village Swallows from Austria / Waltz op. 164 Johann Strauss II : At the Double! / Quick polka op. 348 Josef Strauss : From Afar / Polka mazurka op. 270 Johann Strauss II : Where the Lemon Trees Blossom / Waltz op. 364 Break Johann Strauss II : Light of Heart / Quick polka op. 319 Johann Strauss II : In Praise of Women / Polka mazurka op. 315 Franz Lehár : Gold and Silver / Waltz op. 79 Johann Strauss II : Artists Quadrille op. 201 Johann Strauss II : Cuckoo Polka / Polka française op. 336 Johann Strauss II : Magic Bullets / Polka schnell op. 326 Johann Strauss II : The Blue Danube / Waltz op. 314 Encore Eduard Strauss I : Clear the Track! / Quick polka op. 45 Josef Strauss : Without a Care! / Quick polka op. 271 Johann Strauss I : Radetzky March op. 228
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