My Strauss. Popular melodies for piano in 4 hands

“From all the life enjoyments the music gives in only to the love…” — “Again, but the music, what a nuisance!” However, there lies the precipice between these two exclamations. Those who listen and enjoy music get raptures and sighs, and those who study music every day, mastering scales and etudes… also get sighs, but of the other kind. What is to be done? How are we to jump over this very precipice?

Our series of collections tries to answer this question. Each collection consists of the arranged popular pieces and is wholly dedicated to this or that personality in art. We just would like to offer some delightful “hours of idleness” to you together with the easy arrangements of the composer’s utmostly popular music.

Anyone, who is already taught to play piano a bit, may find a partner mutual music making with the real pleasure. Meanwhile such a performer turns to a listener of the composition he (or she) plays, for it’s coming so fluently and the music is so familiar indeed.

Contents:

Fragments from the operetta “The Bat”
     Polka-mazurka (Music text example)
     Adelle's Couplets
     Waltz
Violetta. French Polka. Fragment
Waltz. From the operetta “The Viennese Blood”. Fragment (Music text example)
Polka pizzicato. Fragment
On the Beautiful Blue Danube. Waltz. Fragment

 Fragments from the operetta “The Gypsy Baron”
     The Gypsy Song
     Finale
Please. Polka to the motif from the operetta “Caliostro in Vienna”
The Viennese Forest's Tales. Waltz. Fragment