Valse-Suite, Op. 71

• This work’s full name is Three-Fours: Valse Suite, Op. 71. It was published in 1909.¹
• Coleridge-Taylor dedicated this suite “To Miss Myrtle Meggy.”² Meggy was an Australian pianist and a friend of Coleridge-Taylor. 
  • Myrtle Meggy was one of several pianists Coleridge-Taylor asked to participate in a recital of his compositions at the Public Hall in Croydon in April of 1910.³

Movements (in 1909 edition)

1. Allegro molto 
2. Andante 
3. Allegro moderato 
4. Vivace⁴

A six-movement edition of this suite also exists. 

1. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Three-Fours: Valse Suite (London: Augener, 1909). 
2. Ibid.
3. W.C. Berwick Sayers, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: His Life and Letters (London: Cassell and Company, 1915), 70, 237.
4. Coleridge-Taylor, Three-Fours: Valse Suite.