J.Strauss."Vergnügungszug" Journey Train - Дж. Штраус "Поезд удовольствий"
TARAS SHEVCHENKO NATIONAL MUSEUM, KIEV THE ROZUMOVSKY COLLECTION SALON ENSEMBLE CHRISTIAN LUMBYE, EDUARD STRAUSS AND JOHANN STRAUSS WROTE MUSIC PIECES THAT CELEBRATED THE TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS - AN OPENINGS OF A NEW RAILWAYS IN THE XIXth CENTURY Johann Strauss II. Vergnügungszug, Op. 281, Journey Train (1864) Vergnügungszug (Pleasure Train) op. 281 is a polka composed by Johann Strauss II in 1864. It was written for the Association of Industrial Societies' Ball held in the Redoutensaal on 19 January 1864 and was inspired by the opening of the Austrian Southern Railway – the Südbahn – which operated many 'pleasure trains' offering trips from Vienna to the countryside. Strauss was not the first composer to write a piece celebrating technological innovation. Much earlier Hans Christian Lumbye, the popular Danish composer, had written his Copenhagen Railway Steam Galop, while Johann Strauss I celebrated the opening of the first Austrian steam railway on 14 November 1837 between the Viennese suburbs of Floridsdorf and Deutsch Wagram with his appropriately titled waltz Eisenbahn-Lust Walzer (Railway Joy Waltz) op. 89. Eduard Strauss, too, wrote his famous quick polka Bahn Frei (Track Clear) op. 45, another piece celebrating the opening of a new railway line. Johann Strauss II's vividly descriptive polka, however, is remarkable for its use of triangles in imitation of train bells and of horns to suggest the chuffing (fagot) of the train. In the trio section the melody constantly hints of the train's progression. The polka, like the train's journey, has to end, however, and Strauss powers home the conclusion with high chords before a resounding flourish underlined by a powerful roll on snaredrum (fagot in the end)
TARAS SHEVCHENKO NATIONAL MUSEUM, KIEV THE ROZUMOVSKY COLLECTION SALON ENSEMBLE CHRISTIAN LUMBYE, EDUARD STRAUSS AND JOHANN STRAUSS WROTE MUSIC PIECES THAT CELEBRATED THE TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS - AN OPENINGS OF A NEW RAILWAYS IN THE XIXth CENTURY Johann Strauss II. Vergnügungszug, Op. 281, Journey Train (1864) Vergnügungszug (Pleasure Train) op. 281 is a polka composed by Johann Strauss II in 1864. It was written for the Association of Industrial Societies' Ball held in the Redoutensaal on 19 January 1864 and was inspired by the opening of the Austrian Southern Railway – the Südbahn – which operated many 'pleasure trains' offering trips from Vienna to the countryside. Strauss was not the first composer to write a piece celebrating technological innovation. Much earlier Hans Christian Lumbye, the popular Danish composer, had written his Copenhagen Railway Steam Galop, while Johann Strauss I celebrated the opening of the first Austrian steam railway on 14 November 1837 between the Viennese suburbs of Floridsdorf and Deutsch Wagram with his appropriately titled waltz Eisenbahn-Lust Walzer (Railway Joy Waltz) op. 89. Eduard Strauss, too, wrote his famous quick polka Bahn Frei (Track Clear) op. 45, another piece celebrating the opening of a new railway line. Johann Strauss II's vividly descriptive polka, however, is remarkable for its use of triangles in imitation of train bells and of horns to suggest the chuffing (fagot) of the train. In the trio section the melody constantly hints of the train's progression. The polka, like the train's journey, has to end, however, and Strauss powers home the conclusion with high chords before a resounding flourish underlined by a powerful roll on snaredrum (fagot in the end)