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Title
Napoleon Marsch
Category
Concert/wind/brass band
Subcategory
Street march
Instrumentation
Ha
(concert/wind band)
Instrumentation/info
MBF
(card size)
Publisher's article no.
11
Composer
Strauss, Johann Sohn
Opus no.
Op.156
Difficulty level
2
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Programme notes:
In autumn 1854 Johann Strauss made a political decision. He composed this march and dedicated it to Napoleon III., the Emperor of the French. So doing he took sides in a dispute that in light of the Crimean War split the population of the monarchy and especially the capital of Vienna into two camps. The Austrian diplomats and a majority of the population of Vienna - Johann Strauss among them - took sides with the Allied France and Britain Party, whose troops landed at Crimea on 14 September, and 14 days later began with the siege of Sevastopol naval base. Austria occupied the Danube principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia, which however had to be evacuated later. In any event the monarchy had no benefit from this action. The smaller portion of the population of the Empire of Austria took the position of Russia, which had tried in vain to gain support from Austria for its policies.
When on 12 October 1854 in spite of the cholera epidemic the "French party" organized a "Napoleon festival" in the Imperial City in the Etablissement Schwender, Johann Strauss was there with his musicians and presented his "Napoleon March" as a dedication. The
Wiener Neuigkeitsblatt
of 15 October 1854 published a brief report of the festival, which contained the sentence: "The 'Napoleon March' by Strauss was liked and had to be repeated three times." In November it was then announced: "His Majesty, Emperor Napoleon III, was moved to accept the dedication of the march and had a golden pearl pin presented to Strauss."
Johann Strauss did not have much joy with this march a short time later. He was designated a "camp follower of world history" for this work and because of the "Alliance March", op. 158, written soon afterwards and already two years later during his appearance in Russia was glad that his "Napoleon March" was forgotten.
Quelle/Source: "Johann Strauss: Kommentiertes Werkverzeichnis" by Franz Mailer
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