‘On Tuesday evening the Medical Students’ Ball was held in the elegant and newly decorated rooms of the Sofiensaal establishment,’ the Vienna daily Neues Fremden-Blatt reported two days later, on Thursday 24 January 1867, and went on, ‘Joseph Strauss played an enchanting waltz, which was greeted with much applause and has already been published by Spina.’ ‘To the gentlemen students of medicine at the University of Vienna’ is the dedication which can be found on the title page of the piano edition of the new waltz. The term ‘delirium’ (‘Delirien’ is the plural form in German) is used to refer to a form psychosis with disorders of consciousness and orientation, sometimes with delusions. Such an acute psychic disorder can have organic causes, or be the result of drugs being consumed or withdrawn. Josef Strauss begins his new composition with an introduction which is completely atypical of previous Viennese waltzes: it is melancholy music which is struggling for freedom, which takes its direction from Richard Wagner’s art of instrumentation. The music is driven along for twenty-seven bars in 12/8 time, an ‘allegro maestoso’ with a nervous tremolo and frequent modulations as well as a series of diminished seventh chords, and in it there is a pathological component to be heard which certainly does justice to the title. In the spring and summer of 1867 the Viennese music publisher Carl Anton Spina quickly brought out an edition for piano solo and then one for piano duet, followed by an arrangement for violin and piano and, of course, the orchestral parts. Josef Strauss’s waltz Delirien is one of his best and most popular compositions, not least because of its introduction, a stroke of genius that places the work far above the reason why it was composed, that is to provide dance music for the medical students’ ball.
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Programm ヨハン･ シュトラウス2世 : 喜歌劇「こうもり」序曲 ヨハン･ シュトラウス2世 : Bitte schön / Polka française op. 372 ヨハン･ シュトラウス2世 : 常動曲 op. 257 ヨハン･ シュトラウス2世 : 「宝のワルツ」 op. 418 ヨハン･ シュトラウス2世 : ポルカ「ハンガリー万歳！ op. 332 ヨーゼフ シュトラウス : うわごと op. 212 Pause Otto Nicolai : Ouverture zur Oper «Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor» ヨーゼフ シュトラウス : ポルカ・マズルカ『女心』 op. 166 ヨーゼフ シュトラウス : ワルツ『天体の音楽 op. 235 ヨーゼフ シュトラウス : ポルカ・シュネル『休暇旅行にて』 op. 133 Léo Delibes : Pizzicato from the ballet Sylvia 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 ヨーゼフ ヘルメスベルガー2世 : Leichtfüssig / Polka schnell op. 184 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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