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Johann Strauss III (1866-1939), the eldest of Eduard Strauss's two sons, wrote to a friend on 23 March 1900:

Now I intend to write a waltz for Berlin and call it Unter den Linden, since curiously enough this title has not yet been used.

He undertook a five‑month tour of Germany and The Netherlands in 1900, making his debut in Berlin on 26 May. It seems to have been at his 'Waltz Evening' at the Neues Königliches Operntheater (Kroll's), on 2 June, that he and his 'Viennese Orchestra' gave the premiere of the waltz Unter den Linden (Under the Linden Trees), extolling the beauty of Berlin's tree‑lined main avenue.
Viennese audiences first heard the work, with its haunting fourth waltz section, at his 'Grand Concert' in the Goldenes Kreuz Hotel on 11 November 1900.