Tales from the Vienna Woods

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Excerpt from the title page of the edition for piano, ca.1880
Zither solo score.

Tales from the Vienna Woods is a concert waltz op. 325 by Johann Strauss (son) . It was premiered under the title "Tales from the Vienna Woods" [sic, i.e. with quotation marks] at the novelty festival with fireworks for the benefit of Josef and Eduard Strauss with the participation of Johann Strauss in the kk Volksgarten from the Strauss Chapel under the direction of Johann Strauss on 19 June 1868. The interpreter of the zither solo was Anton J. Paschinger (1825–1900).

The piece is a series of five waltzes with the zither as a prominent solo instrument in the introduction and the coda. At the time of its creation, the waltz had long since risen from a disreputable village dance to a highly respected ballroom dance. The naming should bring to mind the origin of the dance from the folk music of the Wienerwald area . In waltz II / 1, Johann Strauss is reminiscent of his father's waltz Die Schwalben (op. 208) (there waltz III / 1).

The Viennese zither player Anton Karas had stories from the Vienna Woods in his repertoire for decades.

Remarks

The waltz was dedicated to Prince Constantin zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, who was then Chief Chamberlain at the Imperial Court of Vienna. Adolf Müller used parts of this work in the operetta Wiener Blut , which he compiled based on Johann Strauss motifs .

The playing time on the CD listed under individual records is 16 minutes and 35 seconds. Depending on the musical conception of the conductor, this time can change by up to a minute plus or minus.

Play

The Austrian-Hungarian poet Ödön von Horváth wrote the play Tales from the Vienna Woods in 1931, alluding to this waltz . The barely noticeable change in spelling is often overlooked in quotes and films.

Main article: Stories from the Vienna Woods

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vienna Institute for Strauss Research: Strauss Elementary Directory . Thematic-bibliographical catalog of the works of Johann Strauss (son) . Verlag Hans Schneider, Tutzing, 1997, ISBN 3-7952-0873-4 , (Volume 7), p. 508.
  2. ↑ Biography of AJ Paschinger on Wiener-Zither.at
  3. ^ Vienna Institute for Strauss Research: Strauss Elementary Directory . Thematic-bibliographical catalog of the works of Johann Strauss (son) . Verlag Hans Schneider, Tutzing, 1997, ISBN 3-7952-0873-4 , (Volume 7), p. 508.
  4. ↑ Source: English version of the booklet (page x) in the 52 CD complete edition of the orchestral works by Johann Strauss (son), publisher Naxos (label) . The work can be heard as the sixth track on the 21st CD.

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