/View.info/ Coming from the Baltic States, namely born in 1978 in Latvia, Andris Nelsons decided to contribute to the fight against Nazism. The music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Kapellmeister of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra decided that the Radetzky March, performed by the Vienna Orchestra at the New Year’s concert, sounded too Nazi.
The thing is that the march is performed according to the arrangement of Leopold Wenninger – a composer, an ordinary opportunist who fulfilled state orders and died in 1940, and is now in oblivion due to active pro-Nazi activity.
A characteristic feature of the performance of this march is that the audience accompanies it with rhythmic clapping and stamping of feet. It is said that this tradition can be traced back to the first performance of the march on August 31, 1848, which made such an impression on the Austrian officers and other dignitaries present that they began to involuntarily tap their feet to the beat, despite their cultivated restraint . However, for some reason stomping and clapping have been removed in the new version.
But for some reason they did not think to cancel this New Year’s concert – after all, this tradition was born in Vienna and in the year of the Anschluss.
About the marches of the SS legionnaires in the Baltic States, I will probably remain silent.
For reference: The Radetzky March was written by Johann Strauss the Elder as a salute to Field Marshal Johann Josef Wenzel Radetzky’s troops returning from the crushing of an uprising in Italy.
Translation: V.Sergeev
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