The formal opening of the Suez Canal -- linking Port Said, on the Mediterranean Sea, and the Egyptian port of Suez, on the Red Sea -- was celebrated on 16 November 1869 by an inaugural ceremony at Port Said. On the following day sixty-eight vessels of various nationalities began the passage, arriving at Suez four days later. The opening of this artificial waterway created considerable interest around the world, and in Vienna gave rise to Anton Bittner's burlesque, Nach Ägypten (Into Egypt), presented at the Theater an der Wien on 26 December that year. It was here as a processional march for Egyptian warriors before the final scene, that the Viennese public first became acquainted with the sinuous themes of Johann Strauss's Ägyptischer Marsch. The composer, ever mindful of current affairs, had in fact written the piece for his 1869 summer concert season in Pavlovsk -- shared that year with his brother Josef -- and had conducted its première at the Vauxhall Pavilion there on 6 July (= 24 June, Russian calendar) at a benefit concert for the two brothers.
Johann Strauss II. : Egyptian March op. 335 © by WJSO-Archive
Thursday, 02. February 198420.30 o' clock Lyon ⁄ Auditorium Maurice Ravel
Concert in Lyon BRD, Belgium, Suisse and France tour
Kurt Woess conductor
Program Johann Strauss II : Overture to the operetta «Waldmeister» (Woodruff) Johann Strauss II : Light of Heart / Quick polka op. 319 Johann Strauss II : Artist’s Life / Waltz op. 316 Johann Strauss II : Eljen A Magyar! « Long Live the Magyar!» / Quick polka op. 332 Johann Strauss II : Roses from the South / Waltz op. 388 Johann Strauss II : Egyptian March op. 335 Johann Strauss II : Bandits Galop / Polka schnell op. 378 Break Johann Strauss II : Where the Lemon Trees Blossom / Waltz op. 364 Johann & Josef Strauss : Pizzicato Polka Josef Strauss : Moulinet Polka / Polka française op. 57 Josef Strauss : The Chattering Woman / Polka mazurka) op. 144 Franz von Suppè : Fatinitza March Johann Strauss II : Thunder and Lightning / Quick polka op. 324 Carl Michael Ziehrer : Walk In / Waltz op. 518 Karl Komzák II. : The girls of Baden / Walz op. 257 Encore Johann Strauss II : The Blue Danube / Waltz op. 314 Johann Strauss I : Radetzky March op. 228
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