''Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen'' (''Old Viennese Melodies'' in

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) is a set of three short pieces for violin and piano composed by Austrian-American

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Fritz Kreisler Friedrich "Fritz" Kreisler (February 2, 1875 – January 29, 1962) was an Austrian-born American violinist and composer. One of the most noted violin masters of his day, and regarded as one of the greatest violinists of all time, he was known ...

. The three pieces are titled ''Liebesfreud'' (''Love's Joy''), ''Liebesleid'' (''Love's Sorrow''), and ''Schön Rosmarin'' (''Lovely Rosemary''). It is not known when the pieces are written, but they were published in 1905, deliberately misattributed to

Joseph Lanner Joseph Franz Karl 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 s ...

. The pieces had become parts of Kreisler's repertoire well before

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, when he copyrighted them under his own name. Kreisler often played these pieces as encores at his concerts, though the pieces are usually performed separately. In 1911, he published solo piano arrangements of the pieces as ''Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen''.B. Schott's Söhne: Mainz, 1911 The pieces have since appeared in numerous settings for other instruments, or orchestrated. Two of the pieces, ''Liebesfreud'' and ''Liebesleid'', were the subject of virtuoso transcriptions for solo piano by Kreisler's friend

Sergei Rachmaninoff Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff; in Russian pre-revolutionary script. (28 March 1943) was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one o ...

(1931), who also recorded these transcriptions.

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* * {{Authority control Compositions for violin and piano Compositions by Fritz Kreisler 1905 compositions