The Blue Danube waltz

Johann Strauss II - The Blue Danube Waltz

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André Rieu - The Beautiful Blue Danube

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The Blue Danube

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For other uses, see Blue Danube (disambiguation).

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The Blue Danube is the common English title of An der schönen blauen Donau, Op. 314 (German for "By the Beautiful Blue Danube"), a waltz by the Austrian composer Johann Strauss II, composed in 1866. Originally performed in February, 1867^[1][2] at a concert of the Wiener Männergesangsverein (Vienna Men's Choral Association),^[2] it has been one of the most consistently popular pieces of music in the classical repertoire. Its initial performance was considered only a mild success,^[1]however, and Strauss is reputed to have said, "The devil take the waltz, my only regret is for the coda—I wish that had been a success!"^[2]

After the original music was written, the words were added by the Choral Association's poet, Joseph Weyl.^[1][3] Strauss later added more music, and Weyl needed to change some of the words.^[4] Strauss adapted it into a purely orchestral version for the 1867 Paris World's Fair, and it became a great success in this form.^[1] The instrumental version is by far the most commonly performed today. An alternate text was written by Franz von Gernerth (de), "Donau so blau" (Danube so blue). "The Blue Danube" premiered in the United States in its instrumental version on 1 July 1867 in New York, and in Great Britain in its choral version on 21 September 1867 in London at the promenade concerts at Covent Garden.^{[citation needed]}

When Strauss's stepdaughter, Alice von Meyszner-Strauss, asked the composer Johannes Brahms to sign her autograph-fan, he wrote down the first bars of The Blue Danube, but adding "Leider nicht von Johannes Brahms" ("Alas! not by Johannes Brahms").^[2][5]

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·         1Composition notes

·         2Instrumentation

·         3Choral version

·         4In popular culture

·         5References

·         6External links

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Ode to Joy, Beethoven

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Ode to Joy

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This article is about Schiller's poem. For the "Ode to Joy" theme by Beethoven, see Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven). For other uses, see Ode to Joy (disambiguation).

Autograph manuscript

"Ode to Joy" (German: "An die Freude" [an diː ˈfʁɔʏdə], first line: "Freude, schöner Götterfunken") is an ode written in the summer of 1785 by German poet, playwright and historian Friedrich Schiller and published the following year in Thalia. A slightly revised version appeared in 1808, changing two lines of the first and omitting the last stanza.

"Ode to Joy" is best known for its use by Ludwig van Beethoven in the final movement of his Ninth Symphony, which does not set the entire poem and reorders some sections (Beethoven's text is given in that article). Beethoven's tune^[1] (but not Schiller's words) was adopted as the Anthem of Europe by the Council of Europe in 1972, and subsequently the European Union.

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• 1The poem
  • 1.1Lyrics
• 2Beethoven's musical setting
  • 2.1Uses as a theme song
  • 2.2In popular culture
• 3Other musical settings
• 4References
• 5External links

The poem[edit]

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Friedrich Schiller, who was enthusiastically celebrating the brotherhood and unity of all mankind, later made some small revisions to the poem when it was republished in 1803^{[citation needed]}, and it was this latter version that forms the basis for Beethoven's famous setting. Despite the lasting popularity of the ode, Schiller himself regarded it as a failure later in his life, going so far as calling it "detached from reality" and "of value maybe for us two, but not for the world, nor for the art of poetry" in an 1800 letter to his long-time friend and patron Christian Gottfried Körner (whose friendship had originally inspired him to write the ode).^[2]