Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen
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Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen is a set of three short pieces for violin and piano, written by Fritz Kreisler
.
It is not known when he wrote them, but they were published in 1905
, deliberately misattributed to Joseph Lanner. They had become parts of Kreisler's repertoire well before September 1910
, when he copyrighted them under his own name.
The three pieces are usually performed or heard separately, and are:
Kreisler often played these pieces as encores at his concerts. In 1911, he published his own piano solo arrangement of Liebesfreud.
They have appeared in numerous settings for other instruments, or orchestrated.
Two of them, Liebesfreud and Liebesleid, were the subject of virtuoso transcriptions for solo piano by Kreisler's friend Sergei Rachmaninoff
(1931), who also recorded these transcriptions.
The three pieces, played by the composer, can be heard on Youtube:
Fritz Kreisler
Friedrich "Fritz" Kreisler was an Austrian-born violinist and composer. One of the most famous violin masters of his or any other day, he was known for his sweet tone and expressive phrasing. Like many great violinists of his generation, he produced a characteristic sound which was immediately...
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It is not known when he wrote them, but they were published in 1905
1905 in music
-Events:*January 26 - Arnold Schoenberg's symphonic poem Pelleas und Melisande is premiered in Vienna.*January 29 - Gustav Mahler's Kindertotenlieder is premiered in Vienna.*October 15 - Claude Debussy's La Mer is premiered in Paris....
, deliberately misattributed to Joseph Lanner. They had become parts of Kreisler's repertoire well before September 1910
1910 in music
-Events:*March 19 - Béla Bartók's String Quartet No. 1 is premiered in Budapest*June 25 - Igor Stravinsky's ballet, The Firebird, is premiered in Paris*September 12 - Gustav Mahler's Symphony No...
, when he copyrighted them under his own name.
The three pieces are usually performed or heard separately, and are:
- Liebesfreud (Love's Joy)
- Liebesleid (Love's Sorrow)
- Schön Rosmarin (Lovely Rosemary).
Kreisler often played these pieces as encores at his concerts. In 1911, he published his own piano solo arrangement of Liebesfreud.
They have appeared in numerous settings for other instruments, or orchestrated.
Two of them, Liebesfreud and Liebesleid, were the subject of virtuoso transcriptions for solo piano by Kreisler's friend Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music...
(1931), who also recorded these transcriptions.
The three pieces, played by the composer, can be heard on Youtube: