‘On Tuesday evening the Medical Students’ Ball was held in the elegant and newly decorated rooms of the Sofiensaal establishment,’ the Vienna daily Neues Fremden-Blatt reported two days later, on Thursday 24 January 1867, and went on, ‘Joseph Strauss played an enchanting waltz, which was greeted with much applause and has already been published by Spina.’ ‘To the gentlemen students of medicine at the University of Vienna’ is the dedication which can be found on the title page of the piano edition of the new waltz. The term ‘delirium’ (‘Delirien’ is the plural form in German) is used to refer to a form psychosis with disorders of consciousness and orientation, sometimes with delusions. Such an acute psychic disorder can have organic causes, or be the result of drugs being consumed or withdrawn. Josef Strauss begins his new composition with an introduction which is completely atypical of previous Viennese waltzes: it is melancholy music which is struggling for freedom, which takes its direction from Richard Wagner’s art of instrumentation. The music is driven along for twenty-seven bars in 12/8 time, an ‘allegro maestoso’ with a nervous tremolo and frequent modulations as well as a series of diminished seventh chords, and in it there is a pathological component to be heard which certainly does justice to the title. In the spring and summer of 1867 the Viennese music publisher Carl Anton Spina quickly brought out an edition for piano solo and then one for piano duet, followed by an arrangement for violin and piano and, of course, the orchestral parts. Josef Strauss’s waltz Delirien is one of his best and most popular compositions, not least because of its introduction, a stroke of genius that places the work far above the reason why it was composed, that is to provide dance music for the medical students’ ball.
Friday, 01. May 201511.00 o' clock Vienna ⁄ Musikverein ⁄ The Große Musikvereinssaal
Concert for National Holiday
Alfred Eschwé conductor Anita Goetz soprano
Program Johann Strauss II : Overture to the Operetta «Indigo and the Forty Thieves» Gaetano Donizetti : Aria of Norina «So anch'io la virtú», from the Opera «Don Pasquale» Josef Strauss : Artists's Greeting / Polka française op. 274 Josef Strauss : Jockey / Quick polka op. 278 Josef Strauss : Delirien / Waltz op. 212 Johann Strauss II : « Happy Is He Who Forgets!», Polka Mazurka op. 368 Giacomo Puccini : Aria of Lauretta «O mio babbino caro», from the opera «Gianni Schicchi» Johann Strauss II : City Hall Ball Dances / Waltz op. 438 Break Franz von Suppè : Overture to the Operetta «Pique Dame» Johann Strauss II : Arie der Annina «Was mir der Zufall gab» aus der Operette «Eine Nacht in Venedig» Johann Strauss II : Enjoy Life! / Waltz op. 340 Johann Strauss II : March of Rejoicing at the Deliverance of Emperor Franz Joseph I op. 126 Johann Strauss II : Artists Quadrille op. 201 Johann Strauss II : Tick Tock / Quick polka op. 365 Franz Lehár : «Meine Lippen, sie küssen so heiß», Song from Operetta «Giuditta» Franz Lehár : Gold and Silver / Waltz op. 79 Encore Johann Strauss II : Hunting / Quick polka op. 373 Johann Strauss I : Radetzky March op. 228
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