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
Tuesday, 26. January 198818.30 o' clock Hitachi ⁄ Hitachi Shimin Kaikan
Concert in Hitachi Sixth Japan tour
Alfred Eschwé conductor
Program Johann Strauss II : Overture to the operetta "The Gypsy Baron" Josef Strauss : Heart of Woman / Polka mazurka op. 166 Johann Strauss II : From the Banks of the Danube / Quick polka op. 356 Johann Strauss II : Egyptian March op. 335 Johann Strauss II : Literary Essay / Waltz op. 293 Josef Strauss : Jockey / Quick polka op. 278 Johann Strauss II : Emperor Waltz op. 437 Break Johann Strauss II : Opening march from the operetta «The Gypsy Baron» Johann Strauss II : Vienna Blood / Waltz op. 354 Johann Strauss II : We’re Not That Worried / Quick polka (Galop) op. 413 Johann & Josef Strauss : Pizzicato Polka Johann Strauss II : Hunting / Quick polka op. 373 Johann Strauss II : The Blue Danube / Waltz op. 314 Encore Johann Strauss I : Radetzky March op. 228
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