while stauss adapts no music from the stage work, he did incorporate haydn's austrian hymn 'gott erhalte' into the finale of the polka. strauss first performed the work during a lucrative russian tour at pavlovsk where he frequently performed at the vauxhall pavilion. at his penultimate concert there on 8 october 1864 (russian calendar 26 september), he performed the work under its original title 'vergiß mein nicht' (forget me not). for his audiences back home in vienna, he retitled the work and performed it on 4 december 1864 at a festive concert at the vienna volksgarten to celebrate his 20th anniversary of his public début at dommayer's casino.