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Title	Cachucha-Galopp
Category	Concert/wind/brass band
Subcategory	Galop
Instrumentation	Ha (concert/wind band)
Format	PrtStm (full score and parts)
Publisher's article no.	KL 1464
Series title	Wiener Musik Edition
Year of publication	1997
Price	65.00 EUR (incl. 10 % Austrian VAT)
Composer	Strauss, Johann Vater
Arranger	Fischer, Gustav
Opus no.	Op.97
Difficulty level	3
Duration	1:55
Additional info/contents	The "Cachucha Gallop" was first performed on 7 August 1837 in the Goldene Birn Inn in Vienna. The Cachucha was a very popular Spanish dance at that time. The original score of this canter, which is kept at the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna, bears the following note: "One hour before the opening of the ball (... 'Floras Freuden-Feier', 1837), this canter was composed by Johann Strauss, executed (performed) without rehearsal by the copyist copyist, extraordinarily applauded and repeated three times".
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Programme notes: At the "Goldene Birn" a summer party took place in 1837 under the motto "Floras Freuden-Feier". At that time Vienna was dominated by a Spanish dance, which Fanny Elssler had made famous, and Strauss' father was no exception: "The "Cachucha Gallop" was undoubtedly the result of Fanny Elssler's stage dance. She danced the cachucha to that old Spanish folk melody, to which the then infamous Prussian Minister of Culture von Mühler wrote the student song "Grad aus dem Wirtshaus, da komm ich raus". This song and a Spanish dance refrain, originally in three-eighths time, to which 'Cachucha' can be sung, are the first two melodies of this canter, as well as the trio "Straußsche Fechsung" (i.e. "self-construction", his creation) and in the coda, 'Cachucha' and castanets can be heard again. Schönherr still refers to the pronunciation "Katschutscha" and to the fact that Josef Lanner also quotes this melody, namely in his waltz "Cupid's Wing". Whereby the extraordinary applause at the premiere of this gallop was more for the cachucha itself than for the composition by Johann Strauss' father. "Europe and Vienna had fallen victim to various fashionable diseases in recent years, but none with such ferocity as the cachucha fever. Ever since Fanny Elssler had performed this Spanish dance in Vienna, the whole city had been singing and whistling and playing the melody of the cachucha. In all shops the picture of the divine Fanny as a cachucha dancer was on display, and at all balls the cachucha was danced like mad". The above-mentioned Adolf Müller even wrote a farce "Die Cachucha oder: Er ist sie und sie ist er", which premiered on October 3, 1837 at the Theater an der Wien. Wenzel Scholz, the then well-known folk actor, appeared in the costume of Fanny Elssler and delivered a parody of the cachucha. However, this did not go down very well with the audience. In late autumn 1837 the "Cachucha fever" subsided again. One can see from this that the "good old days" were already quite fast-moving and fashionable dances came, experienced a blossoming, swept everyone away and then suddenly disappeared silently. Two years later Johann Strauss' father dedicated himself compositionally once again to a Spanish melody which Fanny Elssler had danced in a ballet called "Gitana". At that time opus 108, the "Gitana Galopp", was written. There is also a composition of the same name by Josef Lanner and both are based on the same Spanish gypsy melody. In 1846 Strauß' father had another compositional contact with the famous dancer. In his "Esmeralda March" he took up a theme from the ballet "Esmeralda" by Cesare Pugni, in which Fanny Elssler just thrilled the Viennese audience. According to an announcement in the Wiener Zeitung of August 1837, the "Cachucha Galopp" was published by Tobias Haslinger in Vienna in editions for piano two-handed and four-handed, violin and piano, and for orchestra. Quelle/Source: Kliment Musikverlag

	Format	EUR
	Cachucha-Galopp (concert/wind band), full score and parts	65.00
	Faszination Blasmusik in der Bundeshauptstadt Wien, 2 CDs	15.00

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