Les Géorgiennes, Quadrille, Op. 168 - Josef Strauss

"The Georgian Women". Offenbach’s opéra bouffe Les Géorgiennes, “a three-act play about the Amazons” was performed for the first time on 16 March 1864 at the Bouffes Parisiennes. Its Viennese première, at the Carltheater on 5 October 1864 under the title Die schönen Weiber von Georgien (The Lovely Ladies of Georgia), was so successful that some numbers were taken up in Vienna’s dance salons. Josef Strauss wasted no time in immediately arranging a quadrille inspired by motifs from the work, which was performed for the first time on 9 October 1864 at a concert in the Dianasaal. Three days later, the piano score appeared and the work remained for a long time thereafter in the Strauss orchestra’s repertoire.

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Painting: The Battle Between the Amazons and the Greeks
Artist: Pauwel Casteels

Razumovsky Symphony Orchestra
Alfred Eschwé