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Pizzicato polka op. 23412/31/2023 With his brother Josef, Johann Strauss had composed the Pizzicato-Polka in 1869 for one of his several visits to Russia. It exhibits a ternary (ABA) form with eight-measure subsections and sometimes includes an introduction and a coda. A French dictionary of dance terms dating from 1847 describes the polka as having a tempo of 104 beats per minute with an emphasis on the second beat of the measure. The polka was very popular in the late nineteenth century and examples were penned by nearly every major composer of dance music, performed by almost all military bands and distributed in the form of sheet music throughout the world. Local musicians created variants of the dance, and in the 1850s in Vienna, the elegant Polka française and the lively Schnell-Polka developed. By 1843-1844 it was the favorite dance of Parisians and in May, 1844, it was first performed in the U.S. The dance was exported to Vienna in 1839 by a Bohemian regiment band, precipitating its rapid spread throughout Europe. Whatever its origins, it is certain that the polka first appeared in Prague in 1837. The name may be derived from the Czech pulka (half) or polska, the Czech word for a Polish girl. A couple-dance in 2/4 meter, it seems the polka developed in Bohemia as a type of round-dance with three short, heel-and-toe half-steps on the first three half-beats and a rest on the fourth. 257.Some of the characteristics of the polka appear in music performed by and written for Bohemian village musicians around 1800 aside from this, the dance's origins are obscure. POLKAS: Aesculap, Op.130 Annen, Op.117 Armenball, Op.176 Aurora, Op.165 Bürgerball, Op.145 Champagne, Op.211 Damenspende, Op.305 Demolierer, Op.269 Electropher, Op.297 Explosionen, Op.43 Figaro, Op.320 Juristenball, Op.280 Lagerlust, Op.431 Leichtes Blut, Op.319 Pizzicato Polka (with Josef Strauss) Tritsch, Tratsch, Op.214 Unter Donner und Blitz (Thunder and Lightning), Op.324.Īlso, marches, galops, and Perpetuum Mobile, Op. WALTZES: Abschied von St Petersburg, Op.210 Accelerationen, Op.234 An der schönen blauen Donau (On the beautiful Blue Danube), Op.314 Architektenball-Tänze, Op.36 Cagliostro, Op.370 Erinnerung an Covent Garden, Op.139 Freuet euch des Lebens, Op.340 Frühlingsstimmen (Voices of Spring), Op.410 Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald (Tales From the Vienna Woods), Op.325 Grossfürstin Alexandra, Op.181 Hofballtänze, Op.298 Juristenballtänze, Op.177 Kaiser-Walzer (Emperor Waltz) Op.437 Kronungslieder, Op.184 Künstlerleben, Op.316 Der Kuss, Op.400 Lagunen, Op.411 Liebesliederwalzer, Op.114 Morgenblätter (Morning Papers), Op.279 Nordseebilder, Op.380 O schöner Mai, Op.365 Rathausballtänze, Op.438 Rosen aus dem Süden (Roses from the South), Op.388 Schneeglockchen, Op.143 Seid umschlungen Millionen, Op.443 Wein, Weib und Gesang (Wine, Woman and Song), Op.333 Wiener Blut (Vienna Blood), Op.354 Wiener Bonbons, Op.307 Wo die Zitronen blüh'n, Op.364. OPERETTAS: Indigo und die vierzig Räuber (1871) Der Karneval in Rom (1873) Die Fledermaus (1873-4) Cagliostro in Wien (1875) Prinz Methusalem (1877) Blindekuh (1878) Das Spitzentuch der Königin (1880) Der lustige Krieg (1881) Eine Nacht in Venedig (1883) Der Zigeunerbaron (1885) Simplicuis (1887) Ritter Pazman (1892) Fürstin Ninetta (1893) Jauka (1894) Waldmeister (1895) Die Götten der Vernunft (1897).īALLET: Cinderella (1899 completed as Aschenbrödel by J. Schoenberg, were what we should now call ‘fans’ of Strauss, recognizing a supreme master of a genre who comp. Was friend and admirer of Wagner, who, like Brahms and other composers incl. is played, as are his polkas and other dances. Of his waltzes, the Blue Danube (1867), Roses from the South (1880), the great Emperor Waltz (1888), and Tales from the Vienna Woods (1868) are beloved wherever mus. Turned to stage 1871, when first of a series of successful operettas was produced at the Theater an der Wien, the most famous being Die Fledermaus (1874). nearly 400 waltzes which have come to epitomize Viennese gaiety and sentiment. In 1855 engaged to direct summer concerts in Petropaulovsky Park, St Petersburg, for 10 years. When his father died, amalgamated both orchs. of his own and his father's waltzes in rivalry to his father (they also supported opposing sides in the 1848 revolution). as career, worked as bank clerk but learned vn. Because his father did not want his sons to choose mus. Austrian composer, conductor, and violinist, eldest son of Johann Strauss, and deservedly known as ‘the Waltz King’. Strauss, Johann II ( b Vienna, 1825 d Vienna, 1899).
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