Wiener Blut (waltz)

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Wiener Blut ('Viennese Blood', 'Vienna Blood' or 'Viennese Spirit') Op. 354 is a

'Wiener Blut' is one of a handful of late works by Strauss that were not composed for the stage; at this point in his career he was concentrating on writing for the performing stage, and not for the ballroom, and had written at least two operettas before penning this waltz, with Die Fledermaus still to come.

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The waltz begins with a high spirited melody in

In popular culture

• Vienna Blood is a 1942 German film based on the operetta; the waltz of the same name features prominently in the movie.
• It is a recurring motif in the 1936 film Ladies in Love
• It is a running motif in the 1941 Alfred Hitchcock film Suspicion.
• An album (1997) by Austrian Neue Deutsche Härte band Stahlhammer
• A song composed by German Neue Deutsche Härte band Rammstein from the album Liebe ist für Alle Da (2009) Liebe ist für alle da

References

• Based on original text by Peter Kemp, The Johann Strauss Society of Great Britain. Used with permission.
• Wiener Blut: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project