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, 29. January 197218.30 o' clock Wakayama / Kenmin Kaikan
Concert in Wakayama Second Japan tour
Willi Boskovsky conductor
Program Johann Strauss II : Ouverture zu «Prinz Methusalem» Johann Strauss II : Demolishers Polka / Polka française op. 269 Josef Strauss : Eingesendet / Polka schnell op. 240 Josef Strauss : Delirien / Waltz op. 212 Josef Strauss : Chatterboxes: musical joke / Polka op. 245 Johann Strauss II : Fledermaus-Quadrille op. 363 Johann Strauss II : Eljen A Magyar! « Long Live the Magyar!» / Quick polka op. 332 Break Johann Strauss II : Voices of Spring / Waltz op. 410 Carl Milloecker : Postscriptum / Polka Mazurka Franz von Suppè : Fatinitza March Johann Strauss II : Roses from the South / Waltz op. 388 Johann Strauss II : Magic Bullets / Polka schnell op. 326 Johann Strauss II : New Pizzicato Polka, from the Operetta «Fürstin Ninetta» op. 449 Eduard Strauss I : Non-Stop / Quick polka op. 112 Johann Strauss II : Tales from the Vienna Woods / Waltz op. 325 Encore Johann Strauss I : Radetzky March op. 228
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