Let's dance
A quick polka by Johann Strauss Sohn (op. 436) is ready to dance . The work was performed for the first time on October 21, 1888 in the concert hall of the Wiener Musikverein under the direction of Eduard Strauss .
Remarks
The name of the polka goes back to a poem of the same name by Ludwig Ganghofer . Strauss had the idea for the work much earlier. At a house ball in his Viennese villa on Igelsgasse on March 3, 1888, he presented his guests with a facsimile of the first 16 bars of the future polka. In 1899, Adolf Müller used parts of this work in the third act of the operetta Wiener Blut , which he had compiled based on motifs by Johann Strauss (son) .
The playing time on the CD listed under individual records is 3 minutes and 19 seconds. This time can vary somewhat depending on the conductor's musical conception.
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Individual proof
- ↑ Source: English version of the booklet (page 59) 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 eighth track on the 20th CD.