Music cover for Jetty Treffz Popular Song

Music cover for Jetty Treffz Popular Song, Trab, Trab, or The Ride, as sung at Her Majesty's Concerts. With the original German words and an English version by Count de Horsey, the music by Friedrich Wilhelm Kucken (1810-1882). Jetty (Henrietta) Treffz (1818-1878) was the first wife of Johann Strauss II (m 1862), and a well-known mezzo-soprano who appeared in England in 1849, and in two Jullien concerts in 1850. Two young women are depicted riding donkeys on a beach, a young boy hitting the animals with a stick to make them go faster. The song begins: Upon the sands at Margate, one morning I espied Two young and lovely damsels upon two donkies ride

Concerts Donkeys Gallop Galloping Henrietta Horsey Jeffery Jefferys Jetty Margate Mezzo Soprano Strauss

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