- Lehár’s Ballsirenen-Walzer is based on themes from his operetta The Merry Widow (Die lustige Wittwe)(1905).1
- The Ballensirenen-Walzer were published in 1905, the same year that The Merry Widow premiered.2
- Synopsis of The Merry Widow
Sources
- Andrew Lamb, “Lehár, Franz,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed November 6, 2019, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000016318.
- “Die lustige Witwe” ( Lehár, Franz),” IMSLP, accessed MArch 12, 2020, https://imslp.org/wiki/Die_lustige_Witwe_(Leh%C3%A1r%2C_Franz).
Cut IDs
10862, 43316