Farewell to St. Petersburg (waltz)
Farewell to St. Petersburg is a waltz by Johann Strauss Sohn (op. 210). The work was first performed on September 5, 1858 in Pavlovsk , Russia.
Remarks
The work was created in the summer of 1858 and was premiered at one of the last concerts of the Strauss Chapel before the journey home. Accordingly, the work is characterized by a certain melancholy and farewell mood, even if the usual popular melodies were not missing. Johann Strauss later took up parts of the coda in his Kaiser Waltz (op. 437). The waltz was very well received in both Russia and Vienna, where it was first performed in the Volksgarten on November 21, 1858.
The playing time on the CD listed under individual records is 9 minutes and 10 seconds. Depending on the musical conception of the conductor, this time can change by up to a minute plus or minus.
Web links
literature
- Peter Kemp: The Strauss Family: History of a Musician Dynasty, Heyne Biographies ISBN 3-453-04621-8 , page 109
Individual proof
- ↑ Source: English version of the booklet (page 91) in the 52 CD complete edition of the orchestral works by Johann Strauss (son), published by Naxos (label) . The work can be heard as the sixth track on CD 34.