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Archibald Joyce (25 May 1873 – 22 March 1963), born Arthur Joyce, [1] was an English light music composer and bandleader of the early 20th century. He is known for his popular short waltzes for dancing, such as Dreaming, Songe d'Automne (Dream of Autumn) and Vision of Salome.
Lanner (c. 1825) Joseph Lanner (12 April 1801 – 14 April 1843) was an Austrian dance music composer and dance orchestra conductor. [1] [2] He is best remembered as one of the earliest Viennese composers to reform the waltz from a simple peasant dance to something that even the highest society could enjoy, either as an accompaniment to the dance, or for the music's own sake.
Doga was born on 1 March 1937 in the village of Mocra in the RîbniĊ£a District (then in Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic), in a Romanian family.. The childhood of the composer coincided with a period of historical cataclysms – the war, repressions, hunger, poverty, exhausting hard work (the composer's memories of his childhood [10]).
The Vienna Walzer Orchestra at the Yokohama Minato Mirai Hall in Tokyo, Japan (2009) The Vienna Walzer Orchestra (German: Wiener Walzer Orchester) is a chamber orchestra based in Vienna, Austria that specializes in traditional Viennese waltzes, polkas, marches and operetta arias from composers such as: J. Strauss II, F. Lehár, C.M. Ziehrer, among others.
Charles William Ancliffe (1880 – 20 December 1952) was an Irish born composer of light music, chiefly remembered for his salon piano music, genre dance pieces, light character pieces and his Nights of Gladness waltz.
The orchestral version does not contain the complete set of waltzes, but instead numbers 1, 2, 4, 6, 5, a song that would later become waltz 9 in his Neue Liebeslieder Waltzes, 11, 8, and 9. [12] Friedrich Hermann also created a transcription of the Liebeslieder Waltzes for strings alone in 1889. [13]
By December 2008, Rieu had achieved his 100th platinum accreditation in Australia [23] and by May 2011, Rieu had sold over $50 million worth of wholesale shipments of his CDs and DVDs in Australia and was the highest-selling music artist in the Australian market between 2006 and 2011.
Frédéric Chopin's waltzes are pieces of moderate length for piano, all written between 1824 and 1849. They are all in waltz triple meter, specifically 3/4 (except Op. P1/13, which is in 3/8 time), but differ from earlier Viennese waltzes in not being intended for dancing; nonetheless, several have been used in ballets, most notably Les Sylphides.