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Champagne polka

The polka with the nickname "Musikalischer Scherz" was composed by the Austrian composer Johann Strauss Sohn (1825-1899). It was created during his trip to Russia in 1858 and premiered under the title "Ball-Champagne-Polka" on 12 August in Pavlovsk (St. Petersburg - former summer residence of the Russian tsars). In Vienna, it was played for the first time in the Volksgarten in November 1858. The work describes the popping of champagne corks and the cheerful exuberance of a ball. Champagne was a theme in many of the composer's works, for example in the operetta "Die Fledermaus".

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