In the autumn of 1888, Johann Strauss II returned to Vienna from his engagement in Russia at the end of November. His first contract with the Russian railway company, where he had conducted these events as its conductor, had expired, and nobody in Vienna really knew what Strauss was planning for the near future. The city was full of rumours: they concerned the artistic projects of the young music director, but above all the alleged or actual amorous adventures of the dashing artist. In addition, at the same time, a joke paper entitled "Tritsch-Tratsch“ (Chit-Chat) was founded in the imperial city. Johann Strauss II designed a polka titled "Tritsch-Tratsch" and brought it home from his trip to Russia. On November 24, 1888, he used the opportunity of a concert in the cozy setting of the "Zum Grossen Zeisig" establishment and performed this work there for the first time. There was cheering and commotion in the audience. A few weeks later the first edition of the amusing polka, which the publisher Haslinger had rushed to issue, was already sold out. Such a paragraph would certainly also have been welcome in the "Tritsch-Tratsch" joke. Text: Prof. Franz Mailer
Johann Strauss II. : Chit-Chat Polka op. 214 © by WJSO-Archive
Monday, 30. March 198120.00 o' clock Bregenz ⁄ Festspielhaus
Concert in Bregenz Austria tour 1981
Franz Kreuzer conductor
Program Johann Strauss II : Ouverture to «Die Fledermaus» Johann Strauss II : Anna Polka op. 117 Josef Strauss : Watercolours / Waltz op. 258 Josef Strauss : Without a Care! / Quick polka op. 271 Josef Strauss : Mysterious Powers of Attraction (Dynamiden) / Waltz op. 173 Johann Strauss II : Perpetual Motion / Musical joke op. 257 Johann Strauss II : Thunder and Lightning / Quick polka op. 324 Break Josef Strauss : My Character is Love and Joy / Waltz op. 263 Johann Strauss II : Eljen A Magyar! « Long Live the Magyar!» / Quick polka op. 332 Johann Strauss II : Cuckoo Polka / Polka française op. 336 Johann Strauss II : New Pizzicato Polka, from the Operetta «Fürstin Ninetta» op. 449 Johann Strauss II : Excursion Train / Quick polka op. 281 Johann Strauss II : The Blue Danube / Waltz op. 314 Encore Josef Strauss : Fire-Proof! / Polka française op. 269 Johann Strauss II : Chit-Chat Polka op. 214 Johann Strauss I : Radetzky March op. 228
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