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Cinderella is a fragmentary bequeathed Ballet (1899 ) by Johann Strauss ( son ), which was supplemented by Josef Bayer based on the left by Strauss fragments, orchestrated and brought to the stage of maturity.

Work history

The journalist and librettist Rudolf Lothar suggested on March 5, 1898 in his magazine The scale on to award proposals for the subject and a ballet libretto by Johann Strauss. The jury consisted of Lothar and Eduard Hanslick, Nikolaus Dumba and Gustav Mahler. The draft of the libretto by Albert Kollmann ( di Charles Colbert ) was carried out by Hermann Heinrich rule. Until his death, Johann Strauss had orchestrated the first act and half of the third act. To complete the work, Josef Bayer fell under the contractual provision to use only the music of Johann Strauss ( " except for the technically necessary reconciliation" ). Bayer completed the piano score of the ballet, but Gustav Mahler was of the view that the work had so nothing more to do with Johann Strauss and refused to perform it. On February 11, 1901 arrived in Vienna Sophia Hall at Concordia - ball with great success Bayer arrangement of waltzes from the Cinderella out. Under an agreement between Adele Strauss in 1901, the ballet of Heinrich rule librettist has been revised and brought to the stage. On May 2, 1901, the premiere of Cinderella then found but not in Vienna but in the presence of Emperor Wilhelm II in the Royal Opera House to Berlin, Emil Graeb took over the choreography. It was not until seven years later, on 4 October 1908 the work under Felix Weingartner was given for the first time at the Vienna Court Opera.

Renato Zanella's version of Cinderella came out on the Vienna State Opera in December 1999.