"Radesky March", orchestral music, the most famous masterpiece of Johann Strauss Sr., is probably the most familiar march in the world, and is often used as the end of popular orchestral concerts. One track. The famous Vienna New Year's Concert always ends with this piece every year, and it has become a tradition. But this piece has a little-known background: This piece was originally dedicated to General Radesky by Johann Strauss Sr., but in fact Radesky was a strongman who brutally suppressed his neighbors. The people's uprising in China can be said to be a reactionary warlord. Later, even Strauss himself and his son Johann Strauss Jr. were unwilling to perform this march again. Despite this, "Radeski March" has conquered a large number of audiences with its popular melody and sonorous rhythm, and has become the most widely circulated march. A common version is also an arrangement for wind band. The recording used here is the recording of "Radesky March" at the end of the Vienna New Year's Concert, which is an orchestral piece.

The piece consists of two contrasting parts. The powerful introduction is followed by the first part of the theme, which seems to let people see a group of infantry walking briskly through the street (fragment 1). After repeating it, the music goes through a transitional sentence played by the whole band, and then there is a soft theme that contrasts with the previous theme, which is beautiful and moving (fragment 2). The music finally ends after repeating the theme of the first part.

Author link: Johann Strauss the Elder