In 1869 the concert season in Pavlovsk near St Petersburg was drawing to its close. The brothers Johann and Josef Strauss had been engaged to perform for it, and in the late summer Johann composed one more polka for it, paying tribute to the setting by giving it the title Im Pawlowsker Wald (In Pavlovsk Wood). The piece was first performed at the brothers’ farewell benefit concert at the Vauxhall pleasure grounds in Pavlovsk on 25 August 1869 (the date according to the Julian calendar then used in Russia), or 6 September according to the Gregorian calendar. The Pavlovsk Strauss Orchestra played, with Johann Strauss II himself conducting.
Johann Strauss II. : In the Krapfenwald / Polka française op. 336 © 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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