Liebesfreud (Love’s Joy)

Composer: KREISLER, Fritz
  • Liebesfreud was published in 1910 as part of a set Kreisler called Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen (“Old Viennese Dances”). The set also included Liebesleid (Love’s Sorrow) and Schön Rosmarin (Beautiful Rosemary).1
  • Like many of Kreisler’s pieces, the Old Viennese Dances were not, as purported, arrangements of old compositions, but original Kreisler compositions in a historic style – this time, that of romantic Vienna.2
  • Kreisler published many “arrangements” and “transcriptions” of works he attributed to moderately obscure historic composers like Francoeur and Martini. In 1935 he admitted that he’d written all these pieces himself. Some critics found this entertaining, and some (who had believed the works were genuine 18th C. pieces) were seriously miffed.3

Sources

  1. “3 Old Viennese Dances (Kreisler, Fritz),” IMSLP, accessed March 18, 2021, https://imslp.org/wiki/3_Old_Viennese_Dances_(Kreisler%2C_Fritz).
  2. Ibid.
  3.  Boris Schwarz, “Kreisler, Fritz,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed January 21, 2021, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000015504.

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