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The "Beautiful Blue Danube" was first written as a song for a carnival choir (for bass and tenor), with rather satirical lyrics (Austria having just lost a war with Prussia). [1] The original title was also referring to a poem about the Danube in the poet Karl Isidor Beck 's hometown, Baja in Hungary, and not in Vienna.
Song for voice and piano. Text by Eduard Mörike. Old and New Vienna. Song for voice and piano. Old chimney piece. Song for voice and piano. Text: Heinrich Heine. On the Manzanares In music set for a voice with accompaniment of the piano. From the Spanish songbook by Emanuel Geibel and Paul Heyse. On the Road, op. 27. Song for voice and piano.
The second is Johann Strauss II's waltz "The Blue Danube", whose introduction is interrupted by light applause of recognition and a New Year's greeting in German (originally added by Willi Boskovsky) from the conductor and orchestra to the audience. The origin of this tradition stems from the New Year's Concert of 1954, when the audience ...
Blue Danube may refer to: "The Blue Danube", a waltz composed by Johann Strauss II; The Blue Danube, a German silent film directed by Frederic Zelnik; The Blue Danube, an American silent film starring Leatrice Joy; The Blue Danube, a British film; The Blue Danube. an American cartoon film by Hugh Harman
Sitting together in an expensive restaurant as Hallerton's guest, munching celery, they silently express their regrets in "I Shouldn't Have Come", sung to the tune of "The Blue Danube". At the restaurant, they encounter some people from Hallerton's advertising agency, including Jackie Leighton, an attractive and brainy advertising executive.
Künstlerleben ("Artist's Life"), Op. 316 is a waltz written by Johann Strauss II in 1867, following closely on the success of the popular "The Blue Danube". Austria was severely shaken the previous year 1866 by the crushing defeat that the Austrian army suffered in the Battle of Königgrätz and many of the year's festivities and balls were cancelled as the prevalent depressing mood affected ...
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The lyrics reference three of Strauss's best known compositions, namely An der schönen blauen Donau ("Let the Danube flow along"), Die Fledermaus ("and the Fledermaus") and Wein, Weib und Gesang ("Keep the wine and give me song"). [1]