Hochzeits-Praeludium (Wedding Prelude) op. 469 In 1896 the Berlin publishing house of Bote & Bock issued the performing material for a most unusual composition by Vienna's Waltz King. Entitled simply Hochzeits-Praeludium (Wedding Prelude), the work is scored for organ (harmonium), violin and harp, and bears the inscription: "Composed by Johann Strauss and dedicated to his beloved daughter Alice". As this first edition also makes clear, the Hochzeits-Praeludium was played for the first time in the historic Deutsche Ritterordenskirche (Church of the Teutonic Order of Knights), situated in Vienna's Singerstrasse, near St Stephen's Cathedral, on 27 February 1896. On this day, Alice Elisabeth Katharina Maria Strauss (1875-1945), Johann Strauss's stepdaughter and the only child of his third wife, Adèle (1856-1930), by her earlier marriage to Anton Strauss (1845-77), married the distinguished graphic artist and painter Wilhelm Josef Franz, Marquis de Bayros (1866-1924). Bayros, who had made a name for himself with a number of risqué pictures, provided the romanticised cover design for the Bote & Bock printing of the Hochzeits-Praeludium (depicting the Deutsche Ritterordenskirche and an orchestra of cherubs serenading bride and groom) and later that year also created the cover illustration for Johann Strauss's Deutschmeister Jubiläums-Marsch op. 470. Alice had asked her stepfather's friend, Johannes Brahms, to be her supporter in church, and the German composer had initially ...
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