"Flames". The Flammen waltz was composed by Josef Strauss no later than January 1861. This work may have been inspired by a series of devastating fires in central Vienna, but that is not certain. In any case, the composer did not make this interesting work available for the ball repertoire during the 1861 carnival season, but performed it first at the carnival revue on 17 February 1861 in the Volksgarten. It was published in July 1861. The work soon disappeared from the Strauss orchestra’s programmes.

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Painting: The fire of The National Theatre, Prague, 1881
Artist: František Vejdělek

Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Kosice
Christian Pollack