"Parade". In 1849, shortly after the revolution was crushed in Vienna, Josef Strauss categorically refused in a letter to his father to embark on a career as a soldier. However, nine years later, the former revolutionary, then a music director, composed the Defilir-Marsch, although clearly the Strauss Orchestra had never participated in any parade march for any commander or statesman. The march first performed on 6 June 1858 at Unger’s Casino as part of a joint programme together with the military band under band director Josef Kovacs (infantry regiment No. 27), and later played many times with the same group in the Volksgarten. At the Strauss benefit concert on 15 June 1858 in the Volksgarten, Josef Strauss presented the public with an amazing, first-rate programme. It included a medley of Richard Wagner’s opera Tannhäuser and a concert waltz titled Ideale (which unfortunately did not appear in print and was ultimately destroyed by Eduard in 1907), as well as other novelties; once again the finale was the Defilir-Marsch, performed jointly by the Strauss and Kovacs groups. The review of this concert in the Theaterzeitung of 17 June 1858, States: “The finale of the musical production consisted of Strauss Defilir-Marsch, which had to be played da capo. It has already been promoted to Favourite March.”
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Painting: Military Parade, Arbroath
Artist: Joan Wanklyn
Vienna Johann Strauss Orchestra
Jack Rothstein
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