The spirited and vibrant Rendezvous (meeting between two or more parties) Quadrille by Josef Strauss probably dates back to the Carnival of 1856, having been issued, together with his brother Johann’s contemporary novelties, on 15th April 1856 by Carl Haslinger’s publishing house. The publisher, however, issued an orchestral score based on a model for small orchestra by Strauss’s brother-in-law Karl Fux, and not on Josef’s original score. These parts survived, making a somewhat accurate performance possible. In the summer of 1856, this quadrille was found repeatedly in the programmes of the Strauss orchestra, only later to be displaced by the countless novelties of the following months, during which Josef Strauss, single-handedly, successfully defended the standing of the Strauss orchestra in Vienna’s musical life.
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Painting: Rendezvous in den Uffizien
Artist: Odoardo Borrani
Date: 1878
Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra
Karl Albert Geyer
