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Title	Vaterländischer Marsch
Category	Concert/wind/brass band
Subcategory	Concert march
Instrumentation	Ha (concert/wind band)
Format	PrtStm (full score and parts)
Year of publication	2012
Price	85.00 EUR (incl. 10 % Austrian VAT)
Composer	Strauss, Johann Sohn; Strauss, Josef
Arranger	Reinau, Thorsten
Difficulty level	3+
Duration	3:30
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Programme notes: On 23 April 1859, an ultimatum arrived in Turin from the Foreign Minister of the Austrian Empire, Count Buol, addressed to the Minister of State of the Kingdom of Sardinia-Savoyen, Count Cavour, to secure peace in Northern Italy. But already on 11 July 1858, Cavour and Napoleon III, the Emperor of France, had decided to start a war to expel Austria from Lombardy. Austrian politics could be duplicated; in Vienna one was therefore surprised when Count Cavour abruptly rejected the conditions of the ultimatum. On 27 April 1859, the commander of the Austrian troops in northern Italy was ordered to take the offensive against Sardinia and the French allied with it. The Danube Monarchy had become involved in a war that would endanger its rule in Italy. In Vienna, people were by no means enthusiastic about the events in northern Italy. Nevertheless, they felt connected with the fate of the Danube Monarchy in the Italian regions and documented their solidarity with the Imperial Austro-Hungarian Empire. Army in numerous rallies and patriotic events. Even the Strauß-Kapelle did not want to exclude itself from these actions. Although Johann Strauß had already wanted to leave for his summer concerts in Pavlovsk near St. Petersburg, he stayed in Vienna for a few days and hastily wrote a "Patriotic March" together with his brother Joseph. On 8 May 1859 the Viennese newspapers published a call for a "meeting of all friends of the fatherland" on 9 May in the establishment "Sperl" in the Leopoldstadt. There Johann and Joseph Strauß organized a Patriot Festival Concert with the motto "High the Eagle of Austria" "to the advantage of the Support Fund of the Viennese Volunteers". On this occasion the "Patriotic March" was performed for the first time. When the march was published by Haslinger on 20 May 1859, the "Theaterzeitung" wrote: "The march offers a true treasure of national melodies, arranged in the most sensible way, and might even reach the popularity of the celebrated Radetzky march. What was correct about this statement was that the "Vaterländische Marsch" by Johann and Joseph Strauß was interspersed with quotations of patriotic compositions. The four bars of the "Radetzky March" introduced the composition, the "Rakoczy March" sounded as a short quote, and in the trio, which again offers the "Radetzky March", the Austrian anthem formed the impressive conclusion. The "Vaterländische Marsch" certainly offered "sensuously used national melodies", but it did not achieve the popularity of the "Radetzky March". It was a typical occasional composition and was quickly forgotten again. Quelle/Soruce: Naxos, STRAUSS II, J.: Edition - Vol. 46

	Format	EUR
	Vaterländischer Marsch (concert/wind band), full score and parts	85.00
	Im Kräftereich, audio CD	19.50

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