Johann Strauss/Schoenberg - Kaiser-Walzer, Op. 437 (1889, arr. 1925)
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- Johann Baptist Strauss II (25 October 1825 - 3 June 1899), also known as Johann Strauss Jr., the Younger or the Son (German: Sohn), was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas as well as a violinist. He composed over 500 waltzes, polkas, quadrilles, and other types of dance music, as well as several operettas and a ballet. In his lifetime, he was known as "The Waltz King", and was largely responsible for the popularity of the waltz in Vienna during the 19th century.
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Kaiser-Walzer, Op. 437 (1889)
arranged for chamber group by Arnold Schoenberg in 1925
SCHÖNBERG ENSEMBLE
conductor : Reinbert De LEEUW
Monique Sytsma, flute
Pierre Woundenberg, clarinet
Janneke van den Meer, violin
Wim de Jong, violin
Henk Guittart, viola
Hans Woundenberg, cello
Fred Oldenburg, piano
Rec. 1980 on LP.
Schoenberg's arrangement of the Kaiser Walzer in 1925 is another example of the many arrangements he made of waltzes, polkas and operettas for chamber groups.
A music-historically legendary event took place on May 27, 1921 on the occasion of an "extraordinary evening" with four waltzes by Johann Strauss arranged by Anton Webern, Alban Berg and Arnold Schönberg. After the concert, in which the composers also acted as interpreters (Berg: harmonium, Schönberg: 1st violin, Webern: cello), the autograph manuscripts were to be auctioned off in order to bring in the financial means for further club evenings. The rehearsals were held in five units of five hours each, tickets in the form of program sheets were sold by the performers. Not only the oddity of the stylistic antipodes Strauss / Viennese school triad, but also Schönberg's humorous Conférence should contribute significantly to the success of the evening. Alban Berg reported to his colleague Erwin Stein on June 2, 1921: »The waltzes sounded fabulously good throughout […]! Schönberg's instrumentation naturally far surpassed mine. Of course I wouldn't have dared that much. Steuermann, for example, who smiled when Schönberg remarked that everyone had to look at his voice at home, received from Schönberg an insanely difficult piano part, which of course sounded magnificent.« Berg’s waltz arrangement was greeted with frenetic applause, Schönberg’s exceptionally allowed to lift the spirits and increase the sensitivity of the autograph buyers willing to pay. During the repetition of Webern's »Treasury Waltz« from »Zigeunerbaron«, which was demanded by the audience, Schönberg and his pupil changed both podium and instrument. At the subsequent auction, Berg's manuscript fetched 5,000 crowns, Schönberg's score of "Rosen aus dem Süd" 17,000 crowns (the parts used in the concert had been made by Hanns Eisler) and the "Lagune Waltz" 14,000. In Webern's »Treasury Waltz«, the club president tried to bid up the price himself and, against his intention, ended up being the highest bidder at 9,000 crowns.
I love this hilarious arrangement. Packed full of random trills, brand new countermelodies and themes, weird doublings, etc. All in good fun!
Superbly done arrangement! Schoenberg's arrangements never fails to amaze (and I wish you upload his Reger arrangement if possible XD)
That was fun! It was fascinating to see how a master orchestrator handles a familiar piece.
That text in the description box is a real hoot!
C'est merveilleux, Schönberg a mille fois raison de s'être rapproché de J. Strauss. Cette orchestration est tellement plus drôle, légère, fine, aérée, débarrassée des flonflons. C'est ce qui manquait à Strauss, l'orchestration légère. Je suis très ému.
Awesome
Very nice score.
Quelle intelligence, quelle délicatesse de la part de Schönberg.
Großartig. Schoenberg vermag, wozu J. Strauss niemals in der Lage gewesen ist. Die Musik ist so viel spannender, vielschichtiger und vor allem genialer, als alles was die gesamte Walzerdynastie jemals zu Papier brachte. Das unterscheidet einen Künstler von einem, der das Handwerk einigermaßen beherrscht und auf Geld aus ist.
Fascinating. Do you happen to know if the manuscript title page shown in the first few seconds was written by Schönberg himself in 1925? I'm puzzled because, as far as I can ascertain, he didn't adopt the spelling Schoenberg until after he emigrated to the USA in 1933.
I wondered about that too. Most of those arrangements he seemed to have written before 1921, why this one much later, I don't know. It might be a copyist's hand. I am not an expert in handwriting but it seems to be a bit different from his other scores.
@@bartjebartmans Thanks. It does look like the title page is in pencil and the score itself in ink. So when I think about it, the title page does look to me more like something a collector or librarian would have added later, and less like something Schönberg himself would have felt necessary for the fairly informal occasion of the first performance described in your excellent notes.
Wunderschöne Interpretation dieses perfekt komponierten und fein arrangierten Walzers mit farbenreichen doch perfekt entsprechenden Tönen aller Instrumente. Der intelöligente und erfahrene Dirigent leitet das ausgezeichnete Ensemble im angemessenen Tempo und mit angenehmer Dynamik. Echt faszinierend!
10:01 Quotation from Kaiserhymne……