"Time Pictures". Josef Strauss had composed the waltz Zeitbilder at the beginning of 1858. The work was mentioned for the first time in the Fremden-Blatt of 4th February of that year, as part of the invitation to the charity ball of the brothers Johann and Josef Strauss in the Sofiensaal. The première of this waltz might have taken place during the second half of the Carnival season. In the report on the ball, which appeared on 12th February 1858 in the Theater-Zeitung trade paper, there was a paragraph about Josef Strauss’s new compositions. Among other things, it stated: "Josef Strauss performed six of his new dances, among which the very inspired Zeitbilder was very well received." In the coda, he quoted the rondo of the very popular and well-known opera Robert le Diable by Giacomo Meyerbeer. Eduard Strauss later remembered his already deceased brother’s waltz, and occasionally included the work in the programmes of his concerts at the Musikverein. A huge winged hour-glass dominated the title page illustration for the first piano edition of this masterly waltz.
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Painting: Old Plymouth at Derry's Clock Tower, early 1900's
Artist: Annie Meakin
Viennese Orchestra of London
Jack Rothstein
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