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unusual facts about Waltzes



Alphons Czibulka

In the English-speaking world he is today best-remembered for his association with the famous piece Hearts and Flowers which was first a song created from the introduction 2/4 section of his work Wintermärchen Waltzes Op.366 (1891).

Anna Podlesnaya

Odette/Odile (Swan Lake), Clara and Sugar Plum Fairy (The Nutcracker), Pas de deux and Giselle (Giselle), Princess Florina and Aurora (The Sleeping Beauty), Phrygia (Spartacus), Seventh and Eleventh Waltzes (Les Sylphides).

Grammy Award for Best Polka Album

Walter Ostanek and His Band – Good Time Polkas and Waltzes

Walter Ostanek and Ron Sluga – Time Out for Polkas and Waltzes

Otilio Galíndez

Among the composers other works were waltzes, serenades, bambucos and joropos, like: Pueblos Tristes, Flor de Mayo, Mi Tripón, and many others, His works have been interpreted by the most known popular Venezuelans singers and by other recognized figures of Latin America, such as Silvio Rodríguez, Pablo Milanés and Mercedes Sosa.

Paul Procopolis

The name Paul Procopolis was used to reissue recordings by the pianist Sergio Fiorentino, including the complete Chopin waltzes, extracts from Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, and works by Liszt.

Róża Etkin-Moszkowska

She developed a very large repertoire, including the late sonatas of Beethoven, the Rachmaninov concerti, the Goldberg Variations, Prokofiev's and Karol Szymanowski's works and Godowsky's arrangements of the Chopin Waltzes.

Valses venezolanos

Valses venezolanos (Venezuelan waltzes), is a Venezuelan Compilation album from 1990, made by Aldemaro Romero and his hall orchestra with the record label Fonográfica Gilmar, in this album presents with his orchestra Venezuelan waltzes.

Walzer aus Wien

Walzer aus Wien ("Waltzes from Vienna," titled The Great Waltz in English) is a singspiel pasticcio in three acts, libretto by Alfred Maria Willner, Heinz Reichert, and Ernst Marischka, music by Johann Strauss II (son), arranged by Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Julius Bittner, first performed at the Stadttheater in Vienna on 30 October 1930.

Wojciech Rybicki

Compositions, like Etudes (2003), 26 Mazurkas (2004), 2 books of Waltzes (2005), Polish folk dances (2005), Włocławian Stories (2005), 26 Preludes (2006) as well as tangos, Polkas, Christmas carols, piano miniatures; author of poem collections, e.g. Wierszowane życie (2004) and Meetings with XI Muse (2006).

Zoran G. Jančić

He was the first among his peers to perform complete cycles of works by Frédéric Chopin (4 Ballades, 24 Etudes op. 10 and op. 25, the Waltzes, 21 Nocturnes, 4 Rondos) and Isaac Albéniz's (Suite española).


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