Tags: Classical Music Composition.
Idyllen (Idylls) Op. 95 is the name of a waltz composed by Johann Strauss II in 1851. It was composed for a Grand Summer Festival Soiree in the Vienna Volksgarten with the composer conducting the Strauss Orchestra in its first performance. The fifth waltz melody of the work incorporates themes from the popular song O Madchen mein unter’m Hollerstock (O maiden mine beneath the rose-tree).