Immediately after the close of the official 1869 Vienna Carnival calendar, Johann and Josef Strauss began preparations for their joint Russian summer season of concerts in Pavlovsk from 9 May (= 27 April, Russian calendar) until 10 October (= 28 September). But a number of concert engagements had to be fulfilled before their departure, including a journey by the Strauss orchestra under the direction of all three brothers, Johann, Josef and Eduard, to the Hungarian town of Pest on the banks of the Danube. To coincide with the opening of Pest's imposing new Redoutensaal building, the brothers had organised two concerts there on 16 and 17 March. It was at the first of these that Johann conducted his quick polka Éljen a Magyar!, composed especially for the occasion and dedicated "to the Hungarian Nation". From his early days as a composer Johann was as much at home with the music of Hungary as he was with that of his native Vienna, and this exciting work, further enhanced at its première by the participation of the Budapest Men's Choral Association, was triumphantly applauded and had to be repeated several times. The Coda of the work features a fleeting quotation from the Rákóczi March, which Berlioz had earlier utilised in his Damnation of Faust (1846), but which owes its origins to the patriotic Magyar Rákóczi song.
Johann Strauss II. Hail to Hungary! «Eljen A Magyar» / Polka schnell op. 332 © by WJSO-Archive
Friday, 19. January 199019.00 o' clock Kumamoto ⁄ Kenritsu Gekijo
Concert in Kumamoto 9th Japan tour
Alfred Eschwé conductor
Program Johann Strauss II : Overture to «A Night in Venice» Josef Strauss : Ardent Love / Polka mazurka op. 129 Josef Strauss : Without a Care! / Quick polka op. 271 Johann Strauss II : Viennese Bonbons / Waltz op. 307 Josef Strauss : Fire-Proof! / Polka française op. 269 Josef Strauss : Eingesendet / Polka schnell op. 240 Johann Strauss II : Emperor Waltz op. 437 Break Josef Strauss : Watercolours / Waltz op. 258 Johann Strauss II : Cuckoo Polka / Polka française op. 336 Johann Strauss II : Bandits Galop / Polka schnell op. 378 Johann & Josef Strauss : Pizzicato Polka Johann Strauss II : Eljen A Magyar! « Long Live the Magyar!» / Quick polka op. 332 Johann Strauss II : The Blue Danube / Waltz op. 314 Encore Johann Strauss I : Radetzky March op. 228
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