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
Monday, 14. April 198622.00 o' clock San Juan ⁄ Auditorio Juan Victoria
Concert in San Juan 3rd South-America tour
Kurt Woess conductor
Program Johann Strauss II : Overture to the operetta «Waldmeister» (Woodruff) Johann Strauss II : Anna Polka op. 117 Johann Strauss II : Eljen A Magyar! « Long Live the Magyar!» / Quick polka op. 332 Johann Strauss II : Where the Lemon Trees Blossom / Waltz op. 364 Johann Strauss II : Excursion Train / Quick polka op. 281 Karl Komzák II. : The girls of Baden / Walz op. 257 Break Johann Strauss II : Persian March op. 289 Josef Strauss : Watercolours / Waltz op. 258 Carl Michael Ziehrer : Release! / Quick polka op. 386 Johann Strauss II : Bandits Galop / Polka schnell op. 378 Johann Strauss II : New Pizzicato Polka, from the Operetta «Fürstin Ninetta» op. 449 Johann Strauss II : The Blue Danube / Waltz op. 314 Encore Johann Strauss I : Radetzky March op. 228
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