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Johann Strauss II | Persian March, Op. 289 (1864)

Persischer Marsch (Persian March), Op. 289, is a march in G minor composed by Johann Strauss II in the autumn of 1864. The composer conducted the first Viennese performance of the march in December 1864 at a festival concert in the Vienna Volksgarten to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his debut as a composer.

When Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, to whom Strauss had dedicated the march, visited Vienna for the 1873 Vienna World's Fair, a military band, unable to acquire the music for the authentic Persian anthem, instead played this march as a hymn for the Shah.


PERFORMANCE

Special Winners Concert of 3rd Polish Nationwide Music Schools' Symphonic Orchestras Competition

Audition Award - Polish Youth Symphony Orchestra in Bytom, 

Maciej Tomasiewicz - conductor

Zdobywca nagrody publiczności - Polska Młodzieżowa Orkiestra Symfoniczna – 

Orkiestra Ogólnokształcącej Szkoły Muzycznej I i II stopnia im. Fryderyka Chopina w Bytomiu, 

pod dyrekcją Macieja Tomasiewicza

Strauss II
1825 - 1899