Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka op. 214 (also known as "Trish Trash Polka") is a polka

Polka

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 written by Johann Strauss II

Johann Strauss II

Johann Strauss II , also known as Johann Baptist Strauss or Johann Strauss, Jr., the Younger, or the Son , was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas. He composed over 500 waltzes, polkas, quadrilles, and other types of dance music, as well as several operettas...

 in 1858 after a successful tour of Russia

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 where he performed in the summer concert season at Pavlovsk, Saint Petersburg.

The title may be interpreted as "Chit-chat" and may refer to the Viennese

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 passion for gossip. Strauss may also have been referencing the single act burlesque

Burlesque

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 'Der Tritsch-tratsch' (with music by Adolf Müller, Sr.) by the famous Austria

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n dramatist and actor Johann Nepomuk Nestroy, which premiered in 1833 and was still in the stage repertoire at the same time the polka was written. Many point out that the title may also have meant his first wife's (Henrietta Treffz

Henrietta Treffz

Henrietta "Jetty" Treffz was best known as the first wife of Johann Strauss II and a well-known mezzo-soprano appearing in England in 1849 to great acclaim.-Biography:...

) poodle

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, also named Tritsch-tratsch, but this etymology remains unsubstantiated as well.

The mood of the piece is jaunty and high-spirited, as were many of Strauss' polkas.

Uses in popular culture

A light-dance

Dance

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-styled remix with vocals appears as a song in Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix

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 under the name Always Smiling.

In the James Bond

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 film Moonraker

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, the piece is playing whilst a fleeing 007 drives his Gondola

Gondola

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/Hovercraft

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 through Venice

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's St. Mark's Square

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In various episodes of the cartoon Tom and Jerry

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 produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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, written and directed by: William Hanna

William Hanna

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 & Joseph Barbera

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