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
Friday, 23. January 202615.00 o' clock Luzern / Kultur- und Kongresszentrum (KKL)
Concert in Luzern
Alfred Eschwé conductor
Program Johann Strauss II : Ouverture to «Die Fledermaus» Johann Strauss II : Anna Polka op. 117 Johann Strauss II : «Ach, wie so herrlich zu schaun», Walzerlied aus der Operette «Eine Nacht in Venedig» Johann Strauss II : Chit-Chat Polka op. 214 Johann Strauss II : «O habet acht», Lied der Saffi aus «Der Zigeunerbaron» Johann Strauss II : Eljen A Magyar! « Long Live the Magyar!» / Quick polka op. 332 Johann Strauss II : Tales from the Vienna Woods / Waltz op. 325 Break Franz Lehár : Overture to « Viennese Woman» Franz Lehár : «Freunde, das Leben ist lebenswert», Lied aus der Operette «Giuditta» Franz Lehár : Ball sirens / Waltz from «The Merry Widow» Franz Lehár : «Liebe, du Himmel auf Erden», Walzerlied aus der Operette «Paganini» Johann Strauss II : Thunder and Lightning / Quick polka op. 324 Franz Lehár : «Niemand liebt dich so wie ich», Duett aus der Operette «Paganini» Johann Strauss II : The Blue Danube / Waltz op. 314
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