Hofballtänze (Court-Ball Dances)

Composer: LANNER, Joseph
  • This piece: This set of waltzes is Lanner’s op.161 and it was composed in 1840.1
  • Lanner was named Vienna’s Hofballmusikdirektor in in 1828: director of the the music for the Viennese court balls.
  • He composed this set of waltzes for the Viennese court ball in 1840.2

Sources

  1. Mosco Carner and Herbert Krenn, “Lanner, Joseph,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed November 6, 2019, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000016000.
  2. Richard E. Rodda, liner notes to Viennafest, Erich Kunzel, Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Telarc 80547, CD, 2000.

Cut IDs

48837