Ungarische Hochzeit - Spiel ..

Nico Dostal was yet another Austrian musician from a military-musical background - both his uncle and his grandfather were noted military-band composers - who was recruited to the service of operetta abroad. Working mainly in Germany, he was a thorough professional who wrote several authentic examples of operetta as it developed in the period between the two World Wars. His Die ungarische Hochzeit (“The Hungarian Wedding”), first performed in Stuttgart in 1939, was revived at the Vienna Volksoper as recently as 1981, when the deceived bride’s lament, Spiel mir das Lied von Glück und Treu (“Play me the song of joy and truth”), proved to be as touching as ever.