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
Saturday, 08. February 202511.00 o' clock Hamburg ⁄ Elbphilharmonie
Concert in Hamburg
Johannes Wildner conductor
Program Johann Strauss II : Overture to the operetta «Waldmeister» (Woodruff) Johann Strauss II : Magic Bullets / Polka schnell op. 326 Johann Strauss II : Bitte schön / Polka française op. 372 Johann Strauss II : Accelerations / Waltz op. 234 Johann Strauss II : Excursion Train / Quick polka op. 281 Johann Strauss II : In Praise of Women / Polka mazurka op. 315 Johann Strauss II : Light of Heart / Quick polka op. 319 Johann Strauss II : Tales from the Vienna Woods / Waltz op. 325 Break Johann Strauss II : Opening march from the operetta «The Gypsy Baron» Johann Strauss II : Wine, Women and Song / Waltz op. 333 Johann Strauss II : Eljen A Magyar! « Long Live the Magyar!» / Quick polka op. 332 Johann Strauss II : Fledermaus-Quadrille op. 363 Johann Strauss II : Thunder and Lightning / Quick polka op. 324 Johann Strauss II : Cuckoo Polka / Polka française op. 336 Johann Strauss II : Emperor Waltz op. 437
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