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
Friday, 25. October 202418.00 o' clock Graz ⁄ Congress ⁄ Stefaniensaal
National holiday concert
Johannes Wildner conductor
Program Johann Strauss II : Overture to the Operetta «Indigo and the Forty Thieves» Johann Strauss II : Greeting to Vienna / Polka française op. 225 Johann Strauss II : Where the Lemon Trees Blossom / Waltz op. 364 Johann Strauss II : From the Banks of the Danube / Quick polka op. 356 Johann Strauss II : Peasants Polka / Polka française op. 276 Josef Strauss : Hesperusbahnen / Walzer op. 279 Break Johann Strauss II : Erinnerung an Covent Garden / Walzer op. 329 Eduard Strauss I : Carmen-Quadrille op. 134 Johann Strauss II : Cuckoo Polka / Polka française op. 336 Josef Strauss : Vélocipède / Quick polka op. 259 Johann Strauss II : New Pizzicato Polka, from the Operetta «Fürstin Ninetta» op. 449 Johann Strauss II : City Hall Ball Dances / Waltz op. 438 Encore Hans Christian Lumbye : Champagne Galop op. 14 Johann Strauss II : Let's dance! / Quick polka op. 436 Johann Strauss I : Radetzky March op. 228
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