Spring concert in the Golden Hall

ヨハン·ヨーゼフシュトラウス
ピツィカート・ポルカ
(1870)

‘I advised my brother – in order to win the Petersburg engagement for himself (I had already been there 10 times & earned a lot of money) to compose something they would get excited about in Petersburg and suggested that he should do a pizzicato polka. He was hesitant about getting started – he was always like that – so in the end I proposed to him that the polka should be the work of the two of us. He took me up on that & lo and behold – the polka created a furore in the true sense of the word.’ That is what Johann Strauss remembered about the origin of the polka in a letter he wrote to Simrock, his publisher, on 1 April 1892.

On 1 June 1869 OS (= 13 June NS) Jetty Strauss, who had also travelled to Pavlovsk, informed Josef’s wife Caroline in Vienna, ‘Pepi & Jean are now writing a polka together – that will again be something new.’ The autograph manuscript of the joint composition has been lost, and which parts were the work of which brother cannot be determined from the extant sources.

The first performance was given at Pavlovsk near St Petersburg at a musical evening held on 12 June OS (= 24 June NS). The enthusiasm of the Russian audience is clear from the fact that Johann was called back six times and the polka had to be repeated twice.

The first performance in Vienna was given in the Sofiensaal with Johann conducting on 14 November 1869, during a promenade concert given by the three Strauss brothers. It was the first appearance by Johann and Josef after their return from St Petersburg. The orchestration of the original version is documented in the Fremden-Blatt newspaper on 13 November, where it was announced that it would be ‘performed just by a quartet’. Seven days later Zeitgeist, another newspaper, reported that the polka had been ‘performed with precision by the quartet’. However, the Pizzicato Polka was also published in a version for large orchestra, with a new setting for the strings and with the winds not only playing in the opening tutti chord but also being included in the orchestration throughout.

Text: Prof. Norbert Rubey

Johann & Josef Strauss: Pizzicato Polka
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Spring concert in the Golden Hall
«Eduard-Strauss-Schwerpunkt» anlässlich des 100. Todestages

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Programm
Heinz Sandauer : Festive Fanfare of the Vienna Johann Strauss Orchestra
ヨハン･シュトラウス2世 : 序曲／喜歌劇「ジプシー男爵」
エドゥアルド･シュトラウス1世 : ポルカ・シュネル「ブレーキをかけずに op. 238
ヨーゼフシュトラウス : Heart’s Sorrow / Orchestral Fantasy *
エドゥアルド･シュトラウス1世 : Jubilee Waltz / Waltz op. 296
ヨーゼフシュトラウス : ポルカ・マズルカ『燃える恋』 op. 129
ヨハン･シュトラウス2世 : ワルツ「ウィーン気質」 op. 354
ヨハン･シュトラウス2世 : ポルカ「雷鳴と電光」 op. 324
Pause ヨーゼフシュトラウス : アレグロ・ファンタスティーク*
ヨーゼフシュトラウス : ディナミーデン op. 173
ヨハン･シュトラウス2世 : 「騎士パズマン」のチャルダッシュ op. 441
ヨハン･シュトラウス2世 : ポルカ『リグオリアンのため息』 op. 57
ヨハン·ヨーゼフシュトラウス : ピツィカート・ポルカ
エドゥアルド･シュトラウス1世 : Who’ll Join the Dance? / Quick polka op. 251
ヨハン･シュトラウス2世 : ワルツ「美しく青きドナウ op. 314
Zugabe ヨハン･シュトラウス2世 : ニコ・ポルカ op. 228
ヨーゼフシュトラウス : ポルカ・シュネル『短いことづて』 op. 240
ヨハン･シュトラウス1世 : ラデツキー行進曲 op. 228

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* Bei den mit dem Stern gekennzeichneten Werken handelt es sich um eine österreichische Erstaufführung.
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