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
Sunday, 11. October 198719.00 o' clock Linz ⁄ Brucknerhaus
Concert in Linz Cycle «Große Stimmen - berühmte Solisten»
Kurt Woess conductor René Kollo tenor Melanie Holliday soprano
Program Johann Strauss II : Ouverture to «Die Fledermaus» Johann Strauss II : Eljen A Magyar! « Long Live the Magyar!» / Quick polka op. 332 Franz Lehár : «Freunde, das Leben ist lebenswert», Lied aus der Operette «Giuditta» Franz Lehár : «Warum hat jeder Frühling, ach, nur einen Mai», duet from the Operetta «Der Zarewitsch» Franz Lehár : «Liebe, du Himmel auf Erden», Walzerlied aus der Operette «Paganini» Franz Lehár : «Meine Lippen, sie küssen so heiß», Song from Operetta «Giuditta» Johann Strauss II : Arie der Annina «Was mir der Zufall gab» aus der Operette «Eine Nacht in Venedig»
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