Johann Strauss III – Schlau-Schlau – Polka-schnell, Op. 6
Great excitement greeted the news, in 1898, that Johann Strauss III (1866-1939), a civil-servant and the son of the Court Ball Music Director Eduard Strauss, was to make his debut as an operetta composer. The work, Katze und Maus (Cat and Mouse), was a treatment of Scribe’s comedy Der Damenkrieg (The Ladies’ War), and opened at Vienna’s Theater an der Wien on 23 December 1898. The individual dance pieces based on its melodies proved especially popular with military bands during the 1899 Vienna Carnival – none more so than the exhilarating quick-polka Schlau-Schlau
(Crafty, Crafty), which in part derives from the Act II duet ‘In everything, you’ve got to be crafty!’.
Conductor: Jack Rothstein
Orchestra: Johann Strauss Orchestra
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well this one's definitely unfamiliar ha – wow third generation strauss family – it's a nice piece – a little more modern sounding but strauss nevertheless- thanks andrea
@IlaryRhineKlange Grazie Ilaria 🙂 Sì veramente deliziosa! D'altronde, come si dice, buon sangue non mente! La famiglia era quella 😉
@sousafan100 Thanks for watching paulie 🙂 Yes, this is a very rare piece! I'm glad you like it!
this is very rare piece
Thank you for this polka-schnell. I'm enjoying it very much as everyone else
-Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia-
Amazing work! I don't understand why he nearly tarnished his family name! I think he's even better than Johann Strauss II.
Approaching from Vienna New Year's Concert 2015 : )
I did not hear any of Johann Strauss III's works on the New Year's Day 2016 concert. I was sorry about that even though it was an excellent show with Mariss Jansons as conductor. It is my own personal opinion that it would have been nice to hear even 1 work -that would have been sufficient. Anyway I have on order a triple CD which contains the Schlau -Schlau Polka and the Unter Den Linden Waltz. 2016 is the 150th anniversary of Johann Strauss's birth.
Kind regards to Fledermaus 1990.
I am disappointed that Mr Jansons did not include this piece. Mr Thielemann should make up. Wayne
Is is the Nephew of Johann Strauss II ?
Johann Strauss III (16 February 1866 – 9 January 1939; German: Johann Strauß III; also known as Johann Maria Eduard Strauss) was an Austrian composer whose father was Eduard Strauss, whose uncles were Johann Strauss II and Josef Strauss, and whose grandfather was Johann Strauss I. He was unofficially entrusted with the task of upholding his family's tradition after the dissolution of the Strauss Orchestra by his father in 1901. His talents were not fully realised during his lifetime as musical tastes had changed in the Silver Age with more popular composers such as Franz Lehár and Oscar Straus dominating the Viennese musical scene with their operettas, although his uncle, Johann Strauss II, supervised his development as a musician, a fact disputed by Eduard Strauss.
Despite his keen interest in composing, he was better remembered as a conductor. His only stage work, the three-act operetta Katze und Maus, composed in 1898, premiered in Vienna. Its public reaction bordered on utter dislike, and music critics called for the distraught composer to reassess himself and to appear under a pseudonym, in order not to tarnish the name of his famous relatives. He salvaged the music score and produced independent pieces of which the waltzes Sylvanien, Op. 1 and Leonie, Op. 2 survived obscurity.
He also conducted from the violin in the style of the Vorgeiger and of his family. In 1903, he elevated the Strauss family to a new age of development when the Deutsche Grammophon AG of Germany recorded his conducting of the Johann Strauss Orchestra on eight single-sided records of works by his family. Principally, he was the first conductor in the Strauss family to actively conduct works to be recorded by prominent recording companies. His later works, such as Dem Muthigen gehört die Welt (The World Belongs to the Brave), Op. 25, Unter den Linden (Under the Linden Trees), Op. 30, and Krönungs-Walzer (Coronation Waltz), Op. 40 (the latter celebrating the coronation of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom), were also considerably more popular than his earlier efforts.
Johann Strauss III was born in Vienna and died in Berlin at the age of 72.
I am now first listening to this musical piece. Never heard of it before.
Scribe's Comedy Hmmm That's Something Strange Version Of The Ladies War And Tom And Jerry!