Strauss I: Edition.vol.4

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Release Date: 31 March 2004

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Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: STRAUSS I

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Johann Strauss Snr Edition Vol. 4[1] Schwarz'sche Ball-Tanze, Op. 32, (im Saale zum SperlCotillons nach beliebten Motiven aus der Oper: Die Stumme von Portici)(Schwarz Ball Dances at the Sperl, Cotillons, afterfavourite melodies from the opera La muette de Portici)In the 1830s the distinguished actor Carl Schwarz(1768-1838) from the Imperial Court Theatre organized at least two societyballs every Carnival for his colleagues on the Vienna stage, his friends andacquaintances. Schwarz always chose the best ball-rooms in proper rotation,together with music directors. For his ball at the Sperl it was the turn ofJohann Strauss, who dedicated a new composition to the organizer and presentedit at his own benefit ball on 25th November 1829 at the Sperl, together withhis Charmant Waltz, The Composer's Best Fancy. The work was carefully chosen.At society balls great store was set by figure dances, prepared bydancing-masters and arranged for the ball evening. Contredanses came into fashion in Vienna in the eighteenthcentury. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart too did not disdain to write such compositionsfor balls at the Redoutensaal at which he himself was a keen dancer. In hisball-dances for Carl Schwarz, Johann Strauss put together five sections intriple time, each with a trio, and after the fifth section a long coda. He tookthe melodies from the music written by Daniel Fran?ºois Auber for his opera Lamuette de Portici (The Mute Girl from Portici), first performed at the GrandOpera in Paris on 2nd February 1828. Always up-to-date in his music, Strausspresented important melodies from the opera in his Cotillons before the firstperformance of the opera at the Josephstadt Theatre in Vienna on 9th April1829.[2] Charmant-Polka (Charming Polka)Johann Strauss's Charmant Polka is the first of five polkaspreserved in the Vienna City and District Library. It appeared with theCharmant Waltz in the collection The Composer's Best Fancy, Op. 31, in 1829. Itis conceivable that the polka was performed for the first time together withthe waltz at the Catherine Ball, a benefit for Strauss, on 25th November 1829at the Sperl.The composer was particularly interested in presentinghimself to the public at the Sperl as a versatile musician and composer.Although this unpublished polka is not especially striking, it predates thearrival of the Bohemian polka in Vienna by ten years. The latter were firstpresented in Vienna in 1839 by the Prague conductor Perger. From then onwardsStrauss wrote only polkas following the Prague model. The first work in the latterseries, which continued until 1849 (Alice Polka, Frederica Polka) was the SperlPolka, Op. 133, of 1842.[3] Vive la Danse! Walzer, Op. 47 (Vive la Danse! Waltz) In the middle of the catastrophic year of 1831, JohannStrauss organized a summer festival for his benefit at the Dommayer inHietzing. The Viennese were still living happy and carefree lives, despite thethreat of an outbreak of cholera approaching Vienna from Poland. Friends ofStr
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