Josef Strauss
Jockey / Quick polka
op. 278 (1870)
‘Jokey’ was the usual spelling of ‘jockey’ in Vienna around 1870. The term ‘jockey’, in the sense of a person who rides horses in races, has been used since the seventeenth century. Professional horse racing was a very popular sport in nineteenth-century Vienna.
The Jokey-Polka is the last quick polka that Josef Strauss composed, probably during the Carnival season of 1870. The first performance took place during a promenade concert given by the brothers Josef and Eduard Strauss in the Cur-Salon in the Stadtpark in Vienna on Thursday 10 March. The advertisement in the Fremden-Blatt newspaper published on that day expressly refers to the new piece, ‘New, for the first time: Jockey, quick polka by Josef Strauss’.
A few days later, on Sunday 13 March 1870, in the then new Golden Hall of the Musikverein, the audience at a Carnival Review, the first promenade concert given by the brothers Josef and Eduard Strauss at which Johann Strauss also appeared, could again hear the Jokey-Polka. Evidently the audience liked the piece, because Josef and Eduard Strauss again placed it on the programme on 17 March, at their Concert of New Carnival Compositions and once more on 23 March. Both concerts took place at Cur-Salon in the Stadtpark in Vienna.
A piano edition and the orchestral parts were published before the end of the year by the music publishing house of Carl Anton Spina in Vienna, but after the unexpected death of Josef Strauss on 22 July 1870.
Synopsis: Prof. Norbert Rubey
English translations: Dr. Leigh H. Bailey
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