Concert in Graz

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 (1892)

In his review of The Gypsy Baron the music critic and writer Max Kalbeck caught people’s attention with the following remark, ‘After the interesting indications which Johann Strauss II has given us in this his latest work, we cherish more intensely than ever the happy hope that we will soon be able to greet the graceful muse of this composer of genius in the place where we have long wished to meet her: in the opera house.’
Comments like these certainly fell on fruitful ground with Strauss, as his own artistic intentions were themselves heading in the same direction. However, it was a path that would lead the composer to failure. While his Simplicius, with its leanings towards Wagner and a patriotically old German atmosphere, was a strange hybrid of opera and operetta and no more than a modest success, the work which Strauss composed for the Court Opera House, Knight Pasman, op. 441, first performed there on New Year’s Day 1892 and specifically described as a ‘comic opera’, was a resounding flop.

Although the audience at the eagerly awaited premiere gave the work a reasonably friendly reception, the reviews which appeared over the following days unsparingly laid bare its weaknesses. While there was overall agreement that the opera was a failure, the critics did concede with the same unanimity that the ballet music at the beginning of the third act was an absolute masterpiece, and that it was its czardas that was particularly captivating. There are very few such dances among Johann Strauss’s works; one thinks of the Pest Czardas written in 1846 for the Hungarian city of (Buda)pest and Rosalinde’s aria from the second act of Die Fledermaus.

It is astonishing how well Strauss was able to empathize with what were for him exotic musical idioms. This is especially the case with the Hungarian style, or more exactly what people thought of as such before Bartók and Kodály — and the czardas from Knight Pasman is a brilliant example.

Synopsis: Dr. Thomas Aigner

Translation: Dr. Leigh H. Bailey

Johann Strauss II. : Opera «Ritter Pázmán»
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火曜日, 10月 26 202118.00 Uhr
グラーツ ⁄ Congress ⁄ Stefaniensaal

Concert in Graz

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Programm
フランツフォン・スッペ : Ouverture zu «Dichter und Bauer»
ヨハン･シュトラウス1世 : Beliebte Annen-Polka op. 137
エドゥアルド･シュトラウス1世 : Unter der Enns / Polka schnell op. 121
ヨハン･シュトラウス2世 : アンネン・ポルカ op. 117
ヨハン･シュトラウス2世 : ワルツ『旅の冒険』 op. 227
ヨーゼフシュトラウス : ポルカ・マズルカ『女心』 op. 166
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 : 「我が家で」 op. 361
Pause ジャックオッフェンバック : Ouverture zur Operette «Orpheus in der Unterwelt»
ヨハン･シュトラウス2世 : ポルカ『急行列車』/ ポルカ・シュネル op. 311
ヨハン･シュトラウス2世 : 仮面舞踏会によるカドリーユ op. 272
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·ヨーゼフシュトラウス : ピツィカート・ポルカ
ヨハン･シュトラウス2世 : ワルツ「皇帝円舞曲」 op. 437

“National Day Concert”

The Vienna Johann Strauss Orchestra invites you for the first time on October 26, 2021 to a “National Day Concert” with works by the Strauss dynasty and their contemporaries. Johannes Wildner is the musical director. You can look forward to popular masterpieces such as the overture from the operetta “Orpheus in der Unterwelt” and the Kaiser Waltz with the traditional Viennese orchestra founded in 1966!