Fortunio-Magellone-Daphnis-Quadrille, Op. 103 - Josef Strauss
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In an undated letter, which is most likely from the spring of 1861, Josef Strauss wrote to his publisher:
"Dear Mr von Haslinger: The most incredible thing has happened. From different spheres of the public, inquiries have been directed towards me, requesting that I play something from the operetta Fortunio. Today I looked it up: I had not yet heard it and wanted to write a quadrille from it, but it does not have enough suitable melodies. So I took Daphnis and Chloe, the Magellone, and at four o’clock I started to write my quadrille, and lo and behold — I finished it completely by 7.30, including everything. Since you probably do not have much time now, and are perhaps not in the mood to go through a boring arrangement, I sat down again and completed the arrangement precisely at eight o’clock. As quickly as the publisher C. Haslinger prints, so does the telegraph Josef Strauss write. If you want to start on it immediately, so that, when I play it on Sunday, you can share the limelight with me, then you would make your most devoted Josef Strauss very happy.
P.S. I leave the christening of this quick birth joyfully up to you. Perhaps only these three names: Fortunio-Magellone-Pan. (They would make a pretty title page). Quadrille after popular motifs from the above mentioned operettas."
Carl Haslinger stuck exactly to the suggestions made by the composer. Even the proposal for the title page (Pan eavesdropping on the lovers Daphnis and Chloe) was taken into account. Josef Strauss first performed his quadrille on 15th May 1861 at the Grosser Zeisig on the Burgglacis, and shortly afterwards Haslinger published the piano edition.
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Painting: Daphnis et Chloé
Artist: Jehan-Georges Vibert
Date: 1866
Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Kosice
Christian Pollack
"Dear Mr von Haslinger: The most incredible thing has happened. From different spheres of the public, inquiries have been directed towards me, requesting that I play something from the operetta Fortunio. Today I looked it up: I had not yet heard it and wanted to write a quadrille from it, but it does not have enough suitable melodies. So I took Daphnis and Chloe, the Magellone, and at four o’clock I started to write my quadrille, and lo and behold — I finished it completely by 7.30, including everything. Since you probably do not have much time now, and are perhaps not in the mood to go through a boring arrangement, I sat down again and completed the arrangement precisely at eight o’clock. As quickly as the publisher C. Haslinger prints, so does the telegraph Josef Strauss write. If you want to start on it immediately, so that, when I play it on Sunday, you can share the limelight with me, then you would make your most devoted Josef Strauss very happy.
P.S. I leave the christening of this quick birth joyfully up to you. Perhaps only these three names: Fortunio-Magellone-Pan. (They would make a pretty title page). Quadrille after popular motifs from the above mentioned operettas."
Carl Haslinger stuck exactly to the suggestions made by the composer. Even the proposal for the title page (Pan eavesdropping on the lovers Daphnis and Chloe) was taken into account. Josef Strauss first performed his quadrille on 15th May 1861 at the Grosser Zeisig on the Burgglacis, and shortly afterwards Haslinger published the piano edition.
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Painting: Daphnis et Chloé
Artist: Jehan-Georges Vibert
Date: 1866
Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Kosice
Christian Pollack