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, 05. February 202520.00 o' clock Hamburg ⁄ Elbphilharmonie
Concert in Hamburg
Johannes Wildner conductor
Program Johann Strauss II : Overture to the operetta "The Gypsy Baron" Johann Strauss II : Bandits Galop / Polka schnell op. 378 Johann Strauss II : Anna Polka op. 117 Johann Strauss II : North Sea Pictures / Waltz op. 390 Johann Strauss II : Let’ s Away! op. 383 Johann Strauss II : Town and Country / Polka mazurka op. 322 Johann Strauss II : Perpetual Motion / Musical joke op. 257 Johann Strauss II : Artist’s Life / Waltz op. 316 Break Johann Strauss II : Overture to «A Night in Venice» Johann Strauss II : A Masked Ball, Quadrille on Themes from Verdi’s Opera «Un ballo in masquera» op. 272 Johann Strauss II : Mephisto’s Summons to Hell / Waltz op. 101 Johann Strauss II : Furioso Polka op. 260 Johann Strauss II : New Pizzicato Polka, from the Operetta «Fürstin Ninetta» op. 449 Johann Strauss II : The Blue Danube / Waltz op. 314
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