Festival March, Op. 54, B88
Opus number
54
Burghauser catalogue number
88
Date of composition
January / February 1879
Premiere - date and place
23 April 1879, Prague
Premiere performer(s)
Provisional Theatre Orchestra, conductor Adolf Čech
First edition
Emanuel Starý, 1879, Prague
Main key
C major
Instrumentation
2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, 1 tuba, timpani, triangle, harp, violins, violas, cellos, double basses
Duration
approx. 5 min.
The Festival March is an occasional piece written as an introduction to a gala performance at the Prague’s Provisional Theatre to mark the silver wedding of Emperor Franz Joseph I and his wife, the Empress Elisabeth. The music is ceremonial in character and ends with an impressive coda.