Morgenblätter

[citation needed] The association had earlier intended the "Abendblätter" waltz (untitled by Offenbach when first dedicated) to be played at their Concordia Ball on 12 January 1864.

Friendly rivalry was top of their intentions though[citation needed] as Strauss dutifully premiered Offenbach's work as well as his own because the latter was not present on the day in question.

A sharp series of loud chords interrupts the playful mood and a long clarinet passage ushers in the first waltz theme in G major.

A furious passage of chords brought in waltz 1A again before sweeping into a joyous[citation needed] conclusion complete with a snare drumroll and orchestral flourish.

Thomas Hardy's poem "A Seaside Town in 1869" (in Moments of Vision, 1917) suggests that the waltz was popular in England in the late 1860s.