Tales from the Vienna Woods

Tales from the Vienna Woods is a dance Waltz Op.325 by Johann Strauss ( son). He was first performed under the title "Tales from the Vienna Woods" [sic, ie, with quotation marks ] for Novitätenfest with fireworks to benefit from Josef and Eduard Strauss, composed by Johann Strauss in the kk People's Garden of the Strauss- Chapel under the direction of Johann Strauss on June 19, 1868.

The piece is a waltz sequence of five waltzes with the harp as a solo instrument highlighted in the introduction and coda. At the time of emergence of the waltz had long since risen from disreputable village dance to the highly respected ballroom dancing. The name should reflect the origin of the dance of the folk music of the Viennese forest area in memory. Johann Strauss waltz reminds II / 1 motif of the waltz The Swallows (op. 208) from his father ( there Waltz III / 1).

The most famous Viennese zither player Anton Karas had "Tales from the Vienna Woods" for decades in the repertoire, he was with his zither soundtrack for the film " The Third Man" (1949 ) world famous.

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In allusion to this waltz of the Austria - Hungarian poet Odon von Horvath wrote the play in 1931 Tales from the Vienna Woods. The barely noticeable change in spelling is overlooked in quotations and adaptations often.

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