Although he spent his musical life in the shadow of this two elder brothers, Eduard Strauss stamped his own particular genius on his fast polkas, of which three were inspired directly by his fascination for the still new-fangled railways. The best-known of these works - Bahn frei! - was written especially for the ball of the "Gentlemen Officials of the Royal and Imperial Apostolic Northern Railway", held in the Dianasaal Ballroom, Vienna, on 17 February 1869, and the piece bears a dedication to the Ball's organising committee. Text: Peter Kemo, 1978 The Johann Strauss Society of Great Britain.
Eduard Strauss I. : Clear the Track! / Polka schnell op. 45 © by «Kulturverein Wiener Blut»
Monday, 15. October 198420.00 o' clock Stamford ⁄ Center for the Arts
Concert in Stamford 1st US tour
Kurt Woess conductor
Program Johann Strauss II : Ouverture to «Die Fledermaus» Johann Strauss II : Singers Joy / Polka française op. 328 Josef Strauss : Chatterboxes: musical joke / Polka op. 245 Johann Strauss II : Emperor Waltz op. 437 Franz von Suppè : Fatinitza March Johann Strauss II : Where the Lemon Trees Blossom / Waltz op. 364 Eduard Strauss I : Clear the Track! / Quick polka op. 45 Break Johann Strauss II : Wine, Women and Song / Waltz op. 333 Carl Michael Ziehrer : Release! / Quick polka op. 386 Carl Michael Ziehrer : Schoenfeld-March op. 422 Johann Strauss II : New Pizzicato Polka, from the Operetta «Fürstin Ninetta» op. 449 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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