Touristen-Quadrille, Op. 130 - Josef Strauss

"Tourists". On the title page of the piano score of the Touristen-Quadrille, it is noted that this work by Josef Strauss was created "using beloved folk-tunes". With the construction of the railway-lines, which criss-crossed through Europe, there was also a surge of tourism. It was now relatively easy and not all too time-consuming to reach Vienna from Paris or Berlin, or even from St. Petersburg. One can assume that Josef Strauss, who performed this quadrille for the first time on 26 December 1862 in the hall at Vienna's Volksgarten, wished to greet visitors with local melodies. The composer quoted Becker's Studentenmarsch in number 2A of the quadrille and a North German folk-song in number 5B, and also the Burschenlied in number 3A, employing it again in the introduction of his waltz "Mein Lebenslauf ist Lieb und Lust" Op 263. In number 3C the medieval German soldier's song "Mein Schatz ist a Reiter"; in number 5A a song from Pinzgau "Die pinschgauer wollen wellfahrten geh'n", and the then popular song "Ach, wie ist möglich denn". Josef Strauss invented the remaining melodies himself. The amusing work appeared in print at Verlag Carl Haslinger publishers during the carnival season of 1863.


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Artist: Karl Karger

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