Freuet euch des Lebens
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"The terraced garden was liberally adorned with earthenware gnomes, mushrooms, and all kinds of lifelike animals; on a pedestal stood a mirrored glass sphere, which distorted faces most comically; there were also an aeolian harp, several grottoes, and a fountain whose streams made an ingenious figure in the air, while silver goldfish swam in its basin . . . Over the outside door was an ingenious mechanism, activated by air pressure as the door closed, which played with a pleasing tinkle the opening bars of Strauss’s "Freuet Euch des Lebens"."--Confessions of Felix Krull (1954) by Thomas Mann |
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Freuet Euch des Lebens (Enjoy Life), op. 340, is a Viennese Waltz composed by Johann Strauss II. It was written for the Vienna Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, and premiered at the new Musikverein building in Vienna in 1870.