Composer: Strauss, Johann and JosephArranger: Grimaldi, ScottEnsemble: Flute DuetGenre: ClassicalGrade: 4Duration: 2Model: AOS1250
For 2 Flutes. The Pizzicato Polka was composed by Johann Strauss with his brother in 1869 for a trip to Imperial Russia. It was published in 1870, originally for string orchestra and glockenspiel. It was hugely popular, especially in Italy, where it was included on every program Strauss played there.
from The Mikado, Act I, no. 7 In an 1885 interview, Gilbert stated that the short stature of the three female leads "suggested the advisability of grouping them as three Japanese school-girls" referred to in the opera as the "three little maids". He also recounted that a young Japanese lady,...