"Shooting Stars". For the Hernals church festival of the year 1860, celebrated with a festive concert and a ball on 27th August in Franz Unger’s casino, Josef Strauss wrote a waltz entitled Sternschnuppen. The work had its basis in fact, as during the summer of 1860 many meteorite showers were seen over Vienna. The work and its performance were advertised on 24th August 1860 in the Fremden-Blatt. Even though no report about this festival has been found until now in the press, there is no doubt that these musical Shooting Stars were admired on this evening in Hernals. The première of this waltz has been recorded in the notes of both Josef and Franz Sabay. In the novelty concert held by Josef Strauss on 31st August 1860 in the Volksgarten, the waltz was repeated, as well as in the final concert in Unger’s casino on 7th October, in the programme of which, as a counterpart to the Carnival revue, all the summer compositions by Josef Strauss were also included. The waltz Sternschnuppen seems to have been a great success, because on the occasion of its appearance in print by the publisher Carl Haslinger, the trade paper Zwischen-Akt wrote on 3rd February 1861: "Josef Strauss’ popular waltz Sternschnuppen has just been published in an elegant edition. These fresh melodies were very well received at the end of the Carnival."
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