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  2. The Blue Danube - Wikipedia

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    "The Blue Danube" is the common English title of "An der schönen blauen Donau", Op. 314 (German for "By the Beautiful Blue Danube"), a waltz by the Austrian composer Johann Strauss II, composed in 1866.

  3. György Cziffra - Wikipedia

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    Cziffra is known for his recordings of works of Franz Liszt, Frédéric Chopin and Robert Schumann, and also for his technically demanding arrangements or paraphrases of several orchestral works for the piano, including Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee and Johann Strauss II's The Blue Danube. [2]

  4. Josef Lhévinne - Wikipedia

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    Lhévinne made only a few recordings, some of which are considered to be examples of perfect technique and musical elegance. The discs of the Chopin Études Op. 25, Nos. 6 & 11 recorded for RCA Victor in 1935 and Schulz-Evler's arrangement of Johann Strauss II's Blue Danube Waltz, also for Victor in 1928, are legendary among pianists and connoisseurs.

  5. List of compositions by Johann Strauss II - Wikipedia

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    An der schönen blauen Donau, Op. 314, On the Beautiful Blue Danube, or The Blue Danube (1866) Künstlerleben, Op. 316, Artists' Life (1867) Telegramme , Op. 318, Telegrams (1867) Die Publicisten, Op. 321, The Publicists (1868) G'schichten aus dem Wienerwald, Op. 325, Tales from the Vienna Woods (1868) Illustrationen, Op. 331, Illustrations (1869)

  6. Adolf Schulz-Evler - Wikipedia

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    His piano transcription of Johann Strauss II's Blue Danube Waltz: Arabesques on "An der schönen blauen Donau" has been recorded by many pianists, including Jorge Bolet, Jan Smeterlin, Marc-André Hamelin, Zlata Chochieva, Earl Wild, Leonard Pennario, Piers Lane, Byron Janis, Isador Goodman, [5] Benjamin Grosvenor and Josef Lhévinne.

  7. 1867 in music - Wikipedia

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    Ballade for Cello and Piano in B; Henri Duparc – Sonata for Cello and Piano; Hermann Goetz – Concerto for Piano no 2 in B-flat major; Edvard Grieg – Book 1 (Op. 12) of the Lyric Pieces for piano. Modest Mussorgsky – Night on Bald Mountain; Joachim Raff. String Quartet No. 4 in A minor, Op. 137; String Quartet No. 5 in G major, Op. 138

  8. Waltz (music) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Vienna New Year's Concert - Wikipedia

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    Of the encores, the unannounced first encore is often a fast polka. The second is Johann Strauss II's waltz "The Blue Danube", whose introduction is interrupted by light applause of recognition and a New Year's greeting in German (originally added by Willi Boskovsky) from the conductor and orchestra to the audience. The origin of this tradition ...

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