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
Wednesday, 15. May 197421.00 o' clock São Paulo ⁄ Teatro Municipal
Concert in Sao Paulo 1st. South America-Tour
Kurt Woess conductor
Program Walter Goldschmidt : Feierliche Eröffnung Johann Strauss II : Ouverture to «Die Fledermaus» Johann Strauss II : Emperor Waltz op. 437 Johann Strauss II : Anna Polka op. 117 Break Johann Strauss II : Eljen A Magyar! « Long Live the Magyar!» / Quick polka op. 332 Josef Strauss : Watercolours / Waltz op. 258 Johann Strauss II : Cuckoo Polka / Polka française op. 336 Johann Strauss II : Perpetual Motion / Musical joke op. 257 Johann Strauss II : The Blue Danube / Waltz op. 314 Encore Johann Strauss I : Radetzky March op. 228
The fist South America tour started with some troubles. Some say, because of missing of promised subsidies, some because of mistakes of the organizers, the orchestra couldn't afford the cost for the flights, so the tour almost couldn't take place. The orchestra travelled after all then, only with a smaller cast. The people of Sao Paulo welcomed the orchestra anyway, especially those, who had german and austrian antecedents.
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