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Eduard Strauss, too, wrote his famous quick polka Bahn Frei (Track Clear) op. 45, another piece celebrating the opening of a new railway line. Johann Strauss II's vividly descriptive polka, however, is remarkable for its use of triangles in imitation of train bells and of horns to suggest the chuffing of the train. In the trio section the ...
Realising this, he stamped his own mark with the quick polka, known in German as the "polka-schnell". Among the more popular polkas that he penned for the Strauss Orchestra, which he continued to conduct until its disbandment on 13 February 1901, were " Bahn Frei!
Work Dance type Opus (and year) Ideal (Mes sentiments) Polka-française: Op. 1 (1863) La belle Helene: Quadrille: Op. 14: Bahn Frei! ('Clear Track!') Polka-schnell
The final category of the polka form around that time is the Polka schnell, which is a fast polka or galop. Eduard Strauss is better known for this last category, as he penned the "Bahn Frei" polka, Op. 45, and other examples.
With regard to Bahn Frei!, the link now directs to a web page and essay about the Eduard Strauss polka, including where Shepherd told about how it became his theme music. Shepherd's story was mostly (but not entirely) true, as discussed in the essay.
With the commencement of S-Bahn operations to Friedrichsdorf and also to Friedberg, the normal Friedberg–Bad Homburg–Frankfurt through services were finally discontinued, although some long-distance trains still used the line. A 30 or 60-minute interval service was only re-introduced with the establishment of the Rhine-Main-Verkehrsverbund.
Vom Donaustrande (By the Shores of the Danube, op. 356) is a polka by Johann Strauss II written in 1873. Its themes are drawn from his successful operetta, Der Karneval in Rom which premiered in Vienna's Theater an der Wien on 1 March 1873. The themes from the operetta where the polka presents itself is under Acts 2 and 3.
The polka-mazurka is a dance, musically similar to the mazurka, but danced much like the polka.Many polka-mazurkas were composed by Johann Strauss II and his family. Johann Strauss I did not compose any of this type of music; the first polka-mazurka example written by the Strauss family was in the year 1854 by Johann Strauss II, entitled La Viennoise op. 144.The polka-mazurka was not credited ...