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Title	's gibt nur a Kaiserstadt, 's gibt nur a Wien
Article no.	4091238
Category	Concert/wind/brass band
Subcategory	Concert polka
Instrumentation	Ha (concert/wind band)
Format	PrtStm (full score and parts)
Country of publication	Germany (de)
Publisher *	Musikverlag Reinau
Publisher's article no. *	MR117
Year of publication	2016
Composer	Strauss, Johann Sohn
Arranger	Reinau, Thorsten
Difficulty level	3+
Duration	3:40
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External link *	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27S_gibt_nur_a_Kaiserstadt,_%27s_gib...
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Programme notes *: 's gibt nur a Kaiserstadt, 's gibt nur a Wien is a fast polka by Johann Strauss Sohn. The work was first performed in the orchestral version in Pavlovsk, Russia on 8 October 1864. The premiere of the combined choral and orchestral version took place on 3 February 1874 in the Dianabad Hall in Vienna. This polka exists in two versions. The first version is a purely orchestral version. It was written in the summer of 1864 during the composer's annual trip to Russia. The original title was Vergißmeinnicht-Polka. The title, which was then changed and is used today, is a quotation from the Singspiel Aline oder Wien in einem anderen Weltteil by Wenzel Müller (1759-1835) with a text by Adolf Bäuerle (1786-1859). The Singspiel, published in 1822, had long since disappeared from the theatres' repertoires, but the quotation 's gibt nur a Kaiserstadt, 's gibt nur a Wien' was still very well known in Vienna at the time. The second version was written during the 1874 carnival season, when the Vienna Men's Singing Society was expecting a new choral work from Johann Strauss. The original request was for a waltz composition. However, the composer was not able to fulfil this wish in time. He was busy completing the operetta Die Fledermaus. The solution was to fall back on the polka 's gibt nur a Kaiserstadt, 's gibt nur a Wien, which had been composed almost ten years earlier. ---------- Quelle/Source: Wikipedia

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