Release Date: 30 April 2003
Label: Marco Polo
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 636943521328
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: STRAUSS I, J.
Description
Johann Strauss Snr • Edition • Vol. 1[1] Täuberln-Walzer (Little Doves Waltz), Op. 1The first edition by Anton Diabelli & Co., of the Täuberln-Walzer announced on 10th February 1829 is not the first waltz composition in this form by Johann Strauss. Already on 21st November 1825, some four weeks after the birth of his first son, Johann, there was an advertisement for Johann Strauss père, member of the ensemble directed by Joseph Lanner, by the Anton Diabelli publishing company in the official Wiener Zeitung. In a series of new compositions was a line with his name: Johann Strauss: Seven Waltzes for the Pianoforte. The publisher offered no further information. The work appeared in print, but evidently no copy of it has been found. As Johann Strauss was not yet known to the public, Anton Diabelli for the moment gave no further information, but kept the manuscript in his archive. This was not the only example of work by the busy young musician, who had joined the small group led by the violinist Joseph Lanner, not only as a viola-player but as a collaborator with Lanner, as his son Johann Strauss testified in 1887 in the foreword to a new edition of his father’s music. When the twenty-year-old Strauss had completed his service as a territorial reservist in the Vienna Hoch und Deutschmeister No.4 Regiment, he intensified his creative work and contributed to the repertoire of the ensemble by composing arrangements, some of operatic extracts. His son Johann was fully justified in writing: ‘My father was a musician by the grace of God’. In 1826 Johann Strauss, with the Lanner ensemble, embarked on an engagement at the Zum schwarzen Bock (The Black Buck), in the lower Wieden, in the neighbourhood of the famous Karlskirche, a first-rate baroque building, and took part in the activities of the small band of musicians in balls and soirées, that is reunions. To the year 1826 he also dated the waltz that was issued as Opus 2, the Döblinger Reunion Waltz. No other possible activities were yet open to him. When he applied for permission to marry Anna Streim, he called himself a music teacher and appears as such in the document of his marriage on 11th July 1825 at the bride’s parish church, the Schubert church of the suburb of Liechtenthal. He remained, however, with Lanner, and made his contribution so that the ensemble could be enlarged from twelve to fourteen musicians. Positions in Viennese musical life were given to experienced music directors, to Joseph Wilde, Michael Pamer and Johann Faistenberger. At the Zu den zwey Tauben (The Two Doves) restaurant in Count Traun’s house at the corner of Marokkaner-Gasse and the Haymarket, the orchestra, as the landlord Michael Deiss advertised in the Wiener Zeitung, offered varied music every day, whatever that may mean. Johann Strauss had for the time being not, as was long reported, parted from Lanner at the birth of his son Johann (Lanner’s
Tracklisting
Walter Hofbauer; Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice ; Marek Stilec
SLOVAK STATE PO:POLLACK
Nuremberg Phil Chor/Kvso
Danubius Quartet
Walter:Budapest Strauss Symp O
Various Artists
New Budapest Quartet:Prunyi
Duarte:Slovak Radio Symphony
