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
Sunday, 28. December 202519.30 o' clock National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (衛武營國家藝術文化中心)
Concert in Kaohsiung
Johannes Wildner conductor
Program Johann Strauss II : Ouverture to «Die Fledermaus» Johann Strauss II : Light of Heart / Quick polka op. 319 Josef Strauss : Heart of Woman / Polka mazurka op. 166 Josef Strauss : Watercolours / Waltz op. 258 Johann Strauss II : Thunder and Lightning / Quick polka op. 324 Johann Strauss II : Vienna Blood / Waltz op. 354 Break Eduard Strauss I : Clear the Track! / Quick polka op. 45 Johann Strauss II : Artists Quadrille op. 201 Johann & Josef Strauss : Pizzicato Polka Johann Strauss II : Eljen A Magyar! « Long Live the Magyar!» / Quick polka op. 332 Johann Strauss II : Cuckoo Polka / Polka française op. 336 Johann Strauss II : The Blue Danube / Waltz op. 314
National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (衛武營國家藝術文化中心) No. 1號, Sanduo 1st Rd Fengshan District Kaohsiung City Taiwan 830 Taiwan Show Map
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