"Love’s Greetings". Josef Strauss composed his charming waltz Liebesgrüsse in the spring of 1858 and first presented the work to the public at a festival with fireworks on 1st June in the Volksgarten, as confirmed by a report in the Theaterzeitung trade paper of 3rd June 1858 (No. 125): "Josef Strauss performed his new waltz Liebesgrüsse for the first time. The waltz is, like all compositions by Strauss, extraordinarily melodious and brilliantly orchestrated. It had to be repeated several times." On 19th September 1858, the publisher Carl Haslinger advertised the printed edition of the work, which caused the Theaterzeitung of 23rd September 1858 (No. 218) to comment: "His [Josef Strauss’] waltz Liebesgrüsse in Lanner’s style possesses so many melodious elements, that people are already humming it." Until 1859, the work was featured in the programmes of the Strauss orchestra, and did not completely disappear from the repertoire in subsequent years.
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Painting: Lovers in a Garden
Artist: Charles Edward Perugini
Slovak State Philhamonic Orchestra, Kosice
Christian Pollack
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