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Frédéric Chopin's Waltz No. 19 in A minor, B. 150, WN 63, KK IVb/11, P. 2/11, is a waltz for solo piano.The waltz was written sometime between 1847 and 1849, [1] but was not published until 1860, after the composer's death, by Jacques Maho.
Playing the piece as fast as possible is still a feat some pianists attempt. [5] Camille Bourniquel , one of Chopin's biographers, reminds the reader that Chopin got the inspiration for this waltz as he was watching a small dog chase its tail, which prompted the composer to name the piece Valse du petit chien , meaning "The Little Dog Waltz".
August Silberstein. Dorfschwalben aus Österreich (Village Swallows from Austria), Op. 164, is a Viennese waltz composed by Josef Strauss in 1864 or 1865. [1]It was inspired by August Silberstein's novel Dorfschwalben aus Österreich.
A section from Johann Strauss' Waltz from Die Fledermaus. A waltz, [a] probably deriving from German Ländler, is dance music in triple meter, often written in 3 4 time.A waltz typically sounds one chord per measure, and the accompaniment style particularly associated with the waltz is (as seen in the example to the right) to play the root of the chord on the first beat, the upper notes on the ...
It was the first of Chopin's posthumously published waltzes not to be given an opus number.It appears in Brown's catalogue as B. 56, in Kobylańska's catalogue as KK IVa/15, in Chomiński's as P1/15, and in the Chopin National Edition as WN 29.
It consists of three main themes: . Theme A tempo giusto chordal with a walking pace feel;; Theme B più mosso (faster) — theme stated in running eighth notes, with all harmony in the left hand.
The waltz is in A-flat major, with a time signature of 3/4. The tempo is marked at tempo di valse, or a waltz tempo.The beginning theme, marked con espressione, is melancholic and nostalgic, and reaches a small high point with a fast flourish.
"Quando me'n vo '", also known as "Musetta's Waltz", is a soprano aria, a waltz in act two of Puccini's 1896 opera La bohème.It is sung by Musetta, in the presence of her bohemian friends, hoping to reclaim the attention of her occasional boyfriend Marcello.