Hermann Wollenhaupt Grande Valse Brillante

This beautiful valse, subtitled The Song of the Syrens for selling purposes, has the following structure (counted without repetitions): Intro, A B A B A C D E F G F G F H A B A, Coda, which might help you to analyse the structure. The sequence from C to G is just a collection of waltzes as I see it. It s a wonderful concert waltz worth of being played today. The end is quite virtuosic and some figurations remind me of Alkan and similar. Definitely a composer to check out because I think everything from him so far was very nicely crafted and thoughtful Wollenhaupt(18271863) was an american pianist and composer of German origin (born in Germany, died in New York. ) He studied in Leipzig with Julius Knorr and Moritz Hauptmann. From 1845 he lived and worked in New York as a piano teacher. Author of about a hundred piano pieces: waltzes, polka, marches, etc. ; some of them are still used in music pedagogy. He enjoyed great prestige and popularity in the city but is quite forgotten no