Gartenlaube Waltz

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"Gartenlaube Waltz" cover, in Die Gartenlaube magazine, 1895, signed by the composer.

"Gartenlaube Waltz" ("Arbor Waltz") is the English title of "Gartenlaube-Walzer", Op. 461, a waltz by the Austrian composer Johann Strauss II, composed in 1895. The waltz was dedicated to readers of Die Gartenlaube ("Arbor") magazine, a German weekly for the middle class, which became the most-read magazine in 1890s Germany.

Composition notes

The first page of "Gartenlaube Waltz", as a piano arrangement.

The work begins with an extended introduction in the key of E flat, as tempo "Allegretto ben moderato" (a little fast with moderation), in ⁶/₈ time, but with 2 distinct beats, and changes briefly into ²/₄ time, then back to ⁶/₈. Then begins the first principal waltz melody, marked "Tempo di Valse" (typical waltz tempo), in simple waltz time, ³/₄.

The arrangement of the "Gartenlaube Waltz" for piano spans 5 pages of sheet music, plus the cover.

Instrumentation

The "Gartenlaube Waltz" is scored for orchestra. However, Johann Strauss also wrote a piano version of the waltz.

Notes

References

Lloyd, Norman, The Golden Encyclopedia of Music, New York: Golden Press, a division of Western Publishing, Inc., 1968.

External links

Media related to Gartenlaube Waltz at Wikimedia Commons

Arbor Waltz: Free scores at the International Music Score Library Project

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