Egyptischer Marsch

{{Short description|Austrian March}} [[File:Egyptischer Marsch.jpg|thumb|Title page of piano score]] '''Egyptischer Marsch''' (Egyptian March), [[Opus number|Op.]] 335, is a [[march (music)|march]] composed by [[Johann Strauss II]]. It was commissioned for the inauguration of the [[Suez Canal]], celebrated on 17 November 1869 in [[Port Said]], where Emperor [[Franz Joseph I of Austria]] officiated at the ceremonial opening, though it was first performed on 6 July 1869 in [[Pavlovsk, Saint Petersburg]], under the title "Tscherkessen-Marsch" (March of the [[Circassians]]).<ref>[https://www.naxos.com/mainsite/blurbs_reviews.asp?item_code=8.223213&catNum=223213&filetype=About%20this%20Recording&language=German Liner notes] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401081803/https://www.naxos.com/mainsite/blurbs_reviews.asp?item_code=8.223213&catNum=223213&filetype=About%20this%20Recording&language=German |date=2019-04-01 }} for [https://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.223213 Strauss, II, J.: Edition – Vol. 13], [[Naxos Records]] (in German)</ref> Strauss later dedicated the work to [[Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden]].

In musical terms, Johann Strauss' "Egyptian March" has been described as a "representative example of an" [[Turkish music (style)|''alla turca'']] "composition... characterised by melodic arabesques and metric syncopations".<ref>{{cite book|title=Commemorating Gallipoli Through Music: Remembering and Forgetting|date=2017|last=O'Connell|first=John Morgan|page=62|publisher=Lexington Books|isbn=978-1-4985-5621-7|oclc=1035390422}}</ref>

==Instrumentation== The piece is scored for piccolo, flute, two oboes, two clarinets in A, two bassoons, four horns in F, two trumpets in F, three trombones, glockenspiel, triangle, tambourine, snare drum, bass drum, cymbals, voices, and strings.

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==External links== *{{IMSLP|work=Ägyptischer Marsch, Op.335 (Strauss Jr., Johann)|cname=Ägyptischer Marsch}} *{{YouTube|fnK2LM0hpxQ|Ägyptischer Marsch}}, [[Vienna Philharmonic]], [[Christian Thielemann]] ([[Vienna New Year's Concert]] {{ill|Vienna New Year's Concert 2019|de|Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker 2019|lt=2019}}) *[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015097839594&view=2up&seq=2 "Circassian March"], score, [[HathiTrust]] *[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015097837788&view=2up&seq=2 "Egyptischer Marsch"], score, HathiTrust

[[Category:Compositions by Johann Strauss II]] [[Category:Music dedicated to nobility or royalty]] [[Category:Orchestral marches]] [[Category:1869 compositions]] [[Category:Orientalism]] [[Category:Works about Egypt]]