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Prehistory

The then 18 -year-old Johann Strauss received in September 1844 from the City of Vienna, the permission to play with his orchestra now available at public ball events.

Already six weeks later, on October 15, 1844, Johann Strauss gave his first concert as conductor and composer in the casino Dommayer in Hietzing, a suburb of the imperial city of Vienna near the Schönbrunn Palace.

Actually Johanns eponymous father had forbidden his sons to take the musical career, but her mother in revenge for the infidelity of her husband's other plans.

Premiere

The casino Dommayer was very popular in the elegant Viennese society and announced this evening a "Soirée dansante ", but the sensation that the son of the famous waltz composers gave his first concert so attracted many people that because of the crowd in the hall was not to think of dancing.

The waltz favor advertisers, who has appeared in print later as Opus 4, Strauss had written especially for this debut. The expectation of the audience was very large and the question of whether the father had passed on to his son's talent for composition, could end the evening with a yes answer.

Criticism

The audience was pleased and satisfied and days later the editor of the Austrian Morning Journal wrote the following words, "I myself have only the overture of Auber and the ' favor advertisers ' part, as it is only hyper - enthusiasts was possible herumzubalgen in this heat for several hours, but from these two Piecen I have pretty well taken that in Strauss inherent in a very good working Direction talent and that he with respect to his compositions the same melodies flow and the same piquant and effective Instrumentirung has like his father, of his composition, he did not once called a sclavischer imitators must be. "