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
Monday, 20. May 196819.30 o' clock Baden-Baden (genauer Ort unbekannt)
Concert in Baden-Baden German, Suisse and Netherlands tour
Eduard Strauss II conductor Clementine Mayer soprano Peter Luipold tenor
Program Johann Strauss II : Ouverture to «Die Fledermaus» Johann Strauss II : Where the Lemon Trees Blossom / Waltz op. 364 Johann Strauss II : «Als flotter Geist», Entree couplet from the operetta “The Gypsy Baron” Josef Strauss : Moulinet Polka / Polka française op. 57 Johann Strauss II : Chit-Chat Polka op. 214 Josef Strauss : Village Swallows from Austria / Waltz op. 164 Johann Strauss II : « Happy Is He Who Forgets!», Polka Mazurka op. 368 Johann Strauss II : Eljen A Magyar! « Long Live the Magyar!» / Quick polka op. 332 Johann Strauss II : Emperor Waltz op. 437 Break Johann Strauss II : Perpetual Motion / Musical joke op. 257 Johann Strauss II : Lagunen-Walzer, nach Motiven der Operette "Eine Nacht in Venedig" op. 411 Johann & Josef Strauss : Pizzicato Polka Johann Strauss II : Cuckoo Polka / Polka française op. 336 Johann Strauss II : Wer uns getraut, Duett aus der Operette «Der Zigeunerbaron» Johann Strauss II : Anna Polka op. 117 Johann Strauss II : The Blue Danube / Waltz op. 314 Johann Strauss I : Radetzky March op. 228
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