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Title	Wiener Blut (Le sang viennois)
Category	Concert/wind/brass band
Subcategory	Concert waltz
Instrumentation	Ha (concert/wind band)
Format	DirStm (Condensed Score and parts)
Publisher's article no.	KL 165
Price	65.00 EUR (incl. 10 % Austrian VAT)
Composer	Strauss, Johann Sohn
Arranger	Kliment, Hans
Opus no.	Op.354
Difficulty level	2
Additional info/contents	The success of the waltz, which was premiered on 22 April 1873 at the Court Opera Ball in the Great Hall of the Musikverein, was gigantic. A contemporary review read: 'A collection of genuine Viennese melodies, full of melody and sparkling rhythm; one of the best works by the popular waltz king'. Quelle/Souece: Zaubek
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External link	http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiener_Blut
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Programme notes: Wiener Blut ('Viennese Blood' or 'Viennese Spirit') Op. 354 is a waltz by Johann Strauss II first performed by the composer on 22 April 1873. The new dedication waltz was to celebrate the wedding of the Emperor Franz Josef's daughter Archduchess Gisela Louise Maria and Prince Leopold of Bavaria. However, the waltz was also chiefly noted by Strauss' biographers as the début of Strauss with the world-renowned Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra where for many years, the Philharmonic had dismissed any association with the 'Waltz King' as it had not wished to be associated with mere 'light' or 'pops' music. The festival ball celebrating the event was held at the famed Musikverein Hall which is the venue for the famous present day Neujahrskonzert. Quelle:Source: Wikipedia Who does not know "Wiener Blut", one of his most elegant and memorable melodies, which runs like a thread through the plot of this last operetta by the waltz king. Commissioned by and in collaboration with the already rather age-weary master, the theatre conductor Adolf Müller selected well-known and effective melodies from Strauss' pen and thus created this work, to which the librettists Victor Léon and Leo Stein wrote a witty plot about the amorous escapades of a count at the time of the Congress of Vienna. These two librettists, of all people, were to write the libretto for the "Merry Widow" a few years later, which ushered in a new operetta era. Like many a masterpiece, "Wiener Blut" was not a success when it was first performed in 1899; it was only a few years later that it became a success, and since then the piece has been performed worldwide as one of the most "Viennese" operettas; the waltz of the same name is no less famous. The plot of this operetta resembles the Viennese farce in its drastic wit and the irony with which the authorities are portrayed here; at the same time, hardly any other operetta expresses the beauty and elegance of Straussian melodies to such an extent. It is certainly this mixture that makes this musical comedy so extraordinarily appealing. Quelle/Source: Südtiroler Operettenspiele

	Format	EUR
	Wiener Blut (Le sang viennois) (concert/wind band), Condensed Score and parts	65.00
	Faszination Blasmusik in der Bundeshauptstadt Wien, 2 CDs	15.00

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