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Title	Frühlingsstimmen (Reves de printemps / Voices of Spring)
Category	Concert/wind/brass band
Subcategory	Concert waltz
Instrumentation	Ha (concert/wind band)
Format	PrtStm (full score and parts)
Publisher's article no.	KL 54
Series title	Wiener Musik Edition
Year of publication	1938
Price	126.00 EUR (incl. 10 % Austrian VAT)
Composer	Strauss, Johann Sohn
Arranger	Kliment, Hans
Opus no.	Op.410
Difficulty level	3+
Duration	6:40
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Programme notes: Today this waltz is considered one of the most famous waltzes by Johann Strauss. However, this preference cannot yet be established from the first performance. It was originally written as a bravura waltz for the famous Italian soprano BIANCA BIANCHI. In this form, however, he was received with little enthusiasm by the Viennese audience. The breakthrough came once again with the orchestral version, which took place on 18 March 1883 in the Musikverein Hall in Vienna. Quelle/Source: Kliment The genesis of this work also deserves interest. In late autumn 1882 Johann Strauss was in Budapest to conduct the first performance of his operetta "The Merry War" in Vienna's sister city on the Danube. He was accompanied on this trip for the first time by the young widow Adèle Strauß, née Deutsch, who was to become his third wife. At a private soiree given in his honour, Strauss met Franz Liszt and the two musicians, who had known each other for many years (at the 1856 carnival, Strauss had dedicated the waltz "Abschiedsrufe", op. 179, to Liszt), improvised a concerto in high spirits, taking turns, but also playing together four-handed on the piano. The idea suggests itself that Strauß decided on this occasion not to set the new work as a "violin waltz", but to use figurations that were suitable for performance on the piano as well as for a light soprano voice. Quelle/Source: Covertext zur Naxos-CD Johann Strauss Edition #27

	Format	EUR
	Frühlingsstimmen (Reves de printemps / Voices of Spring) (concert/wind band), full score and parts	126.00
	Frühlingsstimmen (Reves de printemps / Voices of Spring) (concert/wind band), full score

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