Writing to his brother, Eduard, on Saturday 2 April 1892, Johann Strauss remarked: "I have sketched a new pizzicato-polka for your concerts in Hamburg. It is this time made slightly more interesting, in accordance with current taste (without really being suited to a concert performance with regard to the musical content). It allows an affected manner of performance - the main thing in a pizzicato number. For where there is no 'singing-tone', a success can only lie, I must admit, in a coquettish performance - since neither piano nor forte offer sufficient variety in such an unusual piece ....." The polka was later inserted as the Act 3 entr'acte in Johann's operette Fürstin Ninetta (1893), where it seems to have been used for the children's ballet sequence. Text: Peter Kemp, 1978 The Johann Strauss Society of Great Britain
Johann Strauss II. : New Pizzicato Polka, from the Operetta «Fürstin Ninetta» op. 449 © by WJSO-Archive
Tuesday, 16. October 198420.30 o' clock New York City ⁄ Lindell Auditorium
Concert in New York City 1st US tour
Kurt Woess conductor
Program Johann Strauss II : Wine, Women and Song / Waltz op. 333 Josef Strauss : Moulinet Polka / Polka française op. 57 Johann Strauss II : Chit-Chat Polka op. 214 Johann Strauss II : Artist’s Life / Waltz op. 316 Josef Strauss : On Holiday Travels! / Quick polka op. 133 Johann Strauss II : Emperor Waltz op. 437 Johann Strauss II : Perpetual Motion / Musical joke op. 257 Break Johann Strauss II : Opening march from the operetta «The Gypsy Baron» Johann Strauss II : Where the Lemon Trees Blossom / Waltz op. 364 Josef Strauss : Jockey / Quick polka op. 278 Johann Strauss II : New Pizzicato Polka, from the Operetta «Fürstin Ninetta» op. 449 Josef Strauss : Fire-Proof! / Polka française op. 269 Johann Strauss II : The Blue Danube / Waltz op. 314 Encore Johann Strauss I : Radetzky March op. 228
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