1867, this work premiered in Vienna. Because Vienna at that time was under the siege of Prussia, people were pessimistic and disappointed, so this work was unfortunate and its premiere failed. It was not until February 1868, when Johann Strauss II lived at No.54, Brett Street, not far from the Danube River, that this chorus was changed into an orchestra, and many new contents were added, named "Blue Danube Waltz".
In the same year, this piece was a great success when it was performed in Paris. Only a few months later, this work was released in the United States. In an instant, this waltz spread all over the world and later became the author's most important masterpiece. To this day, this piece of music is still deeply loved by people all over the world. At the "New Year Concert" held in Vienna on New Year's Day every year, this song even became a reserved track.
This piece of music consists of an overture, five waltzes and an epilogue:
At the beginning of the overture, the violin played a slow roll in A major, as if the water waves of the Danube were turning gently. In this context, the French horn plays one of the most important motives of this piece of music, symbolizing the arrival of dawn.
The first waltz describes the scene where people intoxicated with nature dance along the Danube (fragment 1).
The second waltz first appeared in D major, and the ingenious and changeable second waltz described the little girl dancing happily in southern alps (fragment 2). Suddenly the music changed to B flat major, and the changeable colors were particularly touching (segment 3).
The third waltz is a singing melody, which adopts syncopation rhythm and gives people a cordial and novel feeling (fragment 4).
The rhythm at the beginning of the fourth waltz is relatively free, and the arpeggio melody is so beautiful that even the composer himself is proud of it, as if it were full of spring and refreshing (fragment 5).
The fifth waltz is the continuation and development of the artistic conception of the fourth waltz, but it is transferred to A major. The undulating, wavy melody reminds people of carefree boating on the Danube (fragment 6). The next part is the climax and ending of the whole song. There are two kinds of music endings, one is the chorus ending, which is very short after the fifth waltz. The other is the end of orchestral music, which is longer and reproduces the themes of the third waltz, the fourth waltz and the first waltz in turn, and finally ends in a stormy carnival atmosphere.
Feeling: The Danube River in johann strauss is blue.
Although, after a lot of research, Pravy said:
"The Danube is never blue."
Her blue waves
Or from the golden hall in Vienna,
Flowing to every corner of the world,
Spread gently in our hearts.
Music,
Instead of taking pictures or fictional reality,
But to give reality a ladder of dreams!
Old Strauss didn't know that young Strauss's masterpiece was the blue Danube. Austria (most classical musicians are Austrian) is known as the king of waltzes, and his work The Blue Danube is known as the second national anthem of Austria.
There are still some waves in the creative process of the Blue Danube. On one occasion, Strauss and a female singer went to perform in other places. His wife was afraid that he was too tired, so she went to my female singer to take care of her husband and took out the staff paper he used to compose music, telling him not to bother composing again. The female singer left Strauss by the Danube and told him to rest more and not to perform. Strauss, who stayed by the Danube, suddenly had a brainwave and wanted to write music, only to find that there was no staff paper. He had to write it on his shirt.
After returning home, he fell asleep because he thought too much and was very tired. He put a shirt with the words "Blue Danube" on it. His wife saw it and thought it was a great piece of music. Then I went to work. When she came back, just for a moment, the shirt was gone. She was frightened and looked everywhere, only to know that the washerwoman had taken it. When she arrived at the washerwoman's house, the washerwoman was about to throw the shirt into the water, and Mrs. Strauss saved the shirt in time. If she hadn't arrived in time, the world famous song "Blue Danube" would have been washed away!