'Jubelfest-Marsch' (Joyous Festival March) Op. 396
An atmosphere of excited anticipation, which had been mounting in Vienna for weeks, reached its peak on 10 May 1881...
On this day the sole heir to the vast Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Emperor's son, Crown Prince Rudolf (1858-89) , married Princess Stephanie of Belgium (1864-1945) at a ceremony in the Augustinerkirche... A year earlier one hundred and ninety-nine members of the Wiener Mannergesang-Verein (Vienna Men's Choral Association) had travelled to Belgium, and at the chateau in Laeken had serenaded the young couple and the Belgian royal family...
As might have been expected, both Johann Strauss and his brother Eduard were in the forefront of those paying homage to the royal newlyweds - Eduard with his waltz Schleier und Krone Op. 200, and Johann with two choral numbers: the waltz Myrthenblüthen...
Op. 395 and the grandiose Jubelfest-Marsch Op. 396... Johann himself conducted the first performance of this latter work in the Theater an der Wien on 10 May 1881 - the actual day of the wedding festivities - as a 'curtain-raiser' to the theatre's evening performance of the fairy-tale Der Weihnachtsbaum, by Vanloo, Leterrier and Mortier... Although Richard Genee, co-librettist of several Strauss operettas, equipped the march with a text for male voice choir, this première featured orchestra alone... Another purely orchestral performance of the march, scheduled to take place that afternoon in the Volksgarten with the Strauss Orchestra under Eduard, had to be postponed until 13 May because of inclement weather...
The work, which the composer dedicated 'in deepest reverence' to 'his Imperial and Royal Highness the Most Serene Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf', is performed on this recording in its version for orchestra alone...
'Jubelfest-Marsch' (Joyous Festival March) Op. 396
An atmosphere of excited anticipation, which had been mounting in Vienna for weeks, reached its peak on 10 May 1881...
On this day the sole heir to the vast Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Emperor's son, Crown Prince Rudolf (1858-89) , married Princess Stephanie of Belgium (1864-1945) at a ceremony in the Augustinerkirche... A year earlier one hundred and ninety-nine members of the Wiener Mannergesang-Verein (Vienna Men's Choral Association) had travelled to Belgium, and at the chateau in Laeken had serenaded the young couple and the Belgian royal family...
As might have been expected, both Johann Strauss and his brother Eduard were in the forefront of those paying homage to the royal newlyweds - Eduard with his waltz Schleier und Krone Op. 200, and Johann with two choral numbers: the waltz Myrthenblüthen...
Op. 395 and the grandiose Jubelfest-Marsch Op. 396... Johann himself conducted the first performance of this latter work in the Theater an der Wien on 10 May 1881 - the actual day of the wedding festivities - as a 'curtain-raiser' to the theatre's evening performance of the fairy-tale Der Weihnachtsbaum, by Vanloo, Leterrier and Mortier... Although Richard Genee, co-librettist of several Strauss operettas, equipped the march with a text for male voice choir, this première featured orchestra alone... Another purely orchestral performance of the march, scheduled to take place that afternoon in the Volksgarten with the Strauss Orchestra under Eduard, had to be postponed until 13 May because of inclement weather...
The work, which the composer dedicated 'in deepest reverence' to 'his Imperial and Royal Highness the Most Serene Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf', is performed on this recording in its version for orchestra alone...
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