Champagne-Galopp

Champagne Galop was originally written for orchestra by the danish composer Hans Christian Lumbye. The occation was the two-year birthday for the famous Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen. Tivoli Gardens have it"s own orchestra for which Lumbye was the conductor at the time. The new piece should have it"s first performance on the gardens two-year day August 15th 1845, but due to heavy rain, the first performance had to be postponed until August 22nd.