Radetzky-Marsch, Op.228 Music Sheet
Explore the Radetzky-Marsch, Op.228 virtual piano sheet and Roblox piano sheet, compare available arrangements, and play online with QWERTY notes. Radetzky-Marsch, Op. 228 is a march by Johann Strauss Sr., the Austrian composer conventionally called Johann Strauss I to distinguish him from his son Johann Strauss II. It was composed in 1848 and named for Field Marshal Joseph Radetzky von Radetz. The march commemorates the Austrian field marshal and became a lasting part of Viennese musical life. Its use as the New Year's Concert finale is a later convention. The selected catalog item is a community piano arrangement. Strauss's march was written for orchestra, so the keyboard reduction's texture, key, and difficulty belong to the arrangement rather than to the original scoring.
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Radetzky-Marsch, Op. 228 is a march by Johann Strauss Sr., the Austrian composer conventionally called Johann Strauss I to distinguish him from his son Johann Strauss II. It was composed in 1848 and named for Field Marshal Joseph Radetzky von Radetz.
The march commemorates the Austrian field marshal and became a lasting part of Viennese musical life. Its use as the New Year's Concert finale is a later convention.
The selected catalog item is a community piano arrangement. Strauss's march was written for orchestra, so the keyboard reduction's texture, key, and difficulty belong to the arrangement rather than to the original scoring.
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Who composed the Radetzky March?
Johann Strauss Sr., also called Johann Strauss I, the elder of the two famous Strauss composers.
When was it composed?
It dates to 1848.
Why is it linked to the New Year's Concert?
The Vienna Philharmonic traditionally performs the march as the closing piece of its New Year's Concert, with the audience clapping along.
Is the piano score the original?
No. It is a community piano arrangement of an orchestral march.