Perpetuum Mobile by Johann Strauss Jr. Concert Band - Sheet Music
By Johann Strauss Jr.
18283559
Perpetuum Mobile
18283559
18283559
18283559
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Fanfare band - Grade 4
SKU: ML.022311080-S
Composed by Johann Strauss Jr. Arranged by M. Carros. Catalogue Chrismas Band Music/Catalogue Light Concert Works/The Best Original Compositions for Concert Band. Classic Arrangement. Score only. Duration 3 minutes, 11 seconds.Johann Strauss Junior wrote this 'Perpetuum Mobile' opus 257 in 1861, inspired by a grand Viennese Ball. This event had been announced as a 'Carnival Perpetuum Mobile' with non-stop dancing and music. The Strauss Brothers conducted alternately, so the music and the dancing never stopped. This composition consists of 24 variations on a theme of 8 bars, allowing a small solopart to almost all instruments. As is often the case with Johann Strauss's compositions, the point comes at the end. This ingenious musical satire, subtitled 'A musical Joke', immediately became the big success of the Summer Concert Season of the Strauss Orchestra in the Russian town of Pavlovsk in 1862.
