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Viennoiserie. Joseph Lanner is commonly referred to as "The Father of the Waltz". For most of his career he and his former colleague Johann Strauss I were in competition for popularity in the Viennese dance world. Of the two, Lanner is probably the more sophisticated composer. During the 1830's and 1840's most of his waltzes have something new ...
Issued in various instrumentations - at least 65 Steyrische Tänze in the set mentioned by HMB, etc. ... - in 1841. According to Grove Music, all of Lanner's works "were published in Vienna for solo piano; most works also appeared simultaneously in arrangements for orchestra, piano for 4 hands, violin and piano, 3 violins and double bass and ...
Joseph Lanner. Joseph Lanner (12 April 1801 – 14 April 1843) was an Austrian dance music composer and dance orchestra conductor. He is best remembered as one of the earliest Viennese composers to reform the waltz from a simple peasant dance to something that even the highest society could enjoy, either as an accompaniment to the dance, or for the music's own sake.
Austrian dance music composer
I continue Berlioz's line of thought by examining the use of two-beat melodic grouping patterns within a notated 3/4 metre by Strauss and his near-contemporary, Joseph Lanner, to create rhythmic ...
