Dance Music From Old Vienna

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Release Date: 02 January 2002

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

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Barcode: 747313568925

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: Dance Music from Old Vienna

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DANCE MUSIC FROM OLD VIENNAJoseph Lanner / Johann Strauss II / Johann Strauss I /Josef Strauss In the course of the nineteenth century Vienna won famefor its dance music and, above all, for the waltz, derived from Austriancountry dances, transplanted to the ballroom and thence throughout Europe. Thewaltz craze owed a great deal to the performances of Joseph Lanner and theelder Johann Strauss, and then to the activities of the latter's eldest son,the younger Johann Strauss, who provided dance music for the court and for muchof Europe. Joseph Lannerwas born in Vienna in 1801 and little isknown of his musical training. He showed remarkable early ability as aviolinist, later matched by his gifts as a composer of dance music. At the ageof twelve he was playing the violin in Michael Pamer's dance orchestra, inwhich the elder Johann Strauss played the viola. In 1818 he established a trioof two violins and guitar, an ensemble which Strauss joined the following year,to be followed by a cellist in 1820. In 1824 he expanded the quintet into astring orchestra. With this ensemble he delighted the Viennese public, with hislandler, waltzes, galops and other dances that soon won wide popularity. Hedeveloped the waltz into a cyclic form, with an introduction, a sequence offive waltzes and a coda. The demand for his services were such that he divided hisband, entrusting one of the ensembles to Strauss, with whom later differencesarose. By 1830 the Viennese public had taken sides, favouring either Lanner or JohannStrauss. Relatively little of Lanner's work is heard today, from 209 publishedcompositions, polkas, marches, galops and landler, and a number that remain inmanuscript. In addition to these dances Lanner arranged opera arias andovertures and wrote a string quartet. He died in Vienna in 1843. Lanner's Neue Wiener Landler (New Vienna Landler) [1] waspublished as Opus 1 in the summer of 1825 by Anton Diabelli. lt is a sequenceof landler, the triple-metre country dance from which the faster waltz developed.His Bankett-Polonaise (Banquet Polonaise) [2] was first heard on 13thDecember 1838 at the Leopoldstadt Theatre in Vienna in a Musico-Dramatic Quodlibet.The Amazonen-Galopp [3] was published in Vienna in 1840. Paired with hisMalapou-Galopp [7], it was written for the St Catherine's Festival Ballon 25th November 1839 at the Goldene Birne (Golden Pear). TheMalapou or Love Dance, like The Bayaderes was the resultof the sensation caused in London by the appearance in October 1838 of Indiandancers at the Adelphi Theatre, with Malapou, a love-dance of the Bayaderes, asexotic in their way as the mythical Amazons. The Steyrische Tanze (StyrianDances) [8], Schubertian in character, were originally part of the divertissementDie Macht der Kunst (The Might of Art) on 22nd January 1841 at theVienna Karntnertor Theatre, with melodies that appeared in many later Viennesesongs. Lanner's Cerrito-Polka [9] takes its name from the Italian dancerFanny Cerrito (1817
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