Persian March Op. 289 (Persischer Marsch)

Concert Paraphrase by Alfred Grünfeld.
Performed by Ingeborg Baldaszti
Persischer Marsch (Persian March), Op. 289, is a march composed by Johann Strauss II in the autumn of 1864. The composer conducted the first Viennese performance of the march in December 1864 at a festival concert in the Vienna Volksgarten, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his debut as a composer
It is uploaded here on youtube with all due acknowledgements to BMG Classics (RCA Red Seal LC00316).
Alfred Grünfeld （1852 --1924) was an Austrian pianist and composer.　He studied under Höger, under Josef Krejčí at the Prague Conservatory, and under Theodor Kullak at the Neue Akademie der Tonkunst, Berlin. In 1873 he settled at Vienna, where he received the title of "Kammervirtuose". He made tours through Europe and the United States.During a visit to Germany Grünfeld was appointed court pianist to Emperor Wilhelm I of Germany. From 1897 he was a professor at the Vienna Conservatory.Grünfeld was the first pianist of note to make a recording.
Another piano paraphrase of the Persian March was carried out by Sergei Kursanov (Сергей Г. Курсанов )
my-lira.ru/kursanov.html
www.mediafire.com/view/?koi3ce...
Piano sheets for the Grunfeld version can be found here
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