Radetzky March

Johann Strauss I

Written in E♭ major, range C4 to D6

A victorious army marches home through Vienna, the band in front, until a gentler tune in the middle lets the march catch its breath before it comes back. Strauss wrote it in 1848 for Field Marshal Radetzky, and Vienna’s New Year’s Concert still ends with it every year while the audience claps the beat; the piano part is Strauss’s own piano version, from Haslinger’s first edition.