Rathausball-Tänze

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Rathausball-Tänze op. 438 is a

Karl Michael Ziehrer
who was head of the Vienna House Regiment 'Hoch und Deutschmeister No. 4'.

The waltz incorporates many snatches of

Haydn's Austrian hymn Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser
. As a consequence the coda is one of the first in a Strauss not to recall themes from earlier sections.

Ziehrer's waltz, the

Wiener Bürger waltz op. 419 remained the more popular of the two works presented. This marked the first of the many occasions where after Johann Strauss II's death, his brother Eduard Strauss
often found himself at rivalry with Ziehrer.

Johann Strauss was evidently bitter at his 'musical defeat'. In a letter to his publisher of the waltz, Fritz Simrock, in 1892 he pointed out an error in the score which he claimed 'spoiled the entire melody' and that the publisher had 'effectively mutilated him' before amusingly adding 'After that, am I supposed to say 'with best wishes'? Yes, I'll say it anyway!'.

References

Based on original text by Peter Kemp, The Johann Strauss Society of Great Britain. Used with permission.

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