Carl Maria von Weber - Aufforderung zum Tanze, Op. 65 (1819)

Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber (18 or 19 November 1786 - 5 June 1826) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school.
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1, Aufforderung zum Tanze, Rondeau brillante, Op. 65 (1819) (0:00)
Dedication: Caroline Brandt, composer's wife
2. Max Waltzer, J.Anh., 81 (1825) (8:30)
Michael Endres, piano
According to Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns, the Max Waltz was lost. Gottfried Wolters found the manuscript (around1939) at the Schlossbibliothek Berlin (M 5609).
Weber dedicated Invitation to the Dance to his wife Caroline (they had been married only a few months). He labelled the work "rondeau brillante", and he wrote it while also writing his opera Der Freischütz. It is also well known in the 1841 orchestration by Hector Berlioz. It is sometimes called Invitation to the Waltz, but this is a mistranslation of the original.
It was the first concert waltz to be written: that is, the first work in waltz form meant for listening rather than for dancing. John Warrack calls it "the first and still perhaps the most brilliant and poetic example of the Romantic concert waltz, creating within its little programmatic framework a tone poem that is also an apotheosis of the waltz in a manner that was to remain fruitful at least until Ravel's choreographic poem, La valse…".
It was also the first piece that, rather than being a tune for the dancers to dance to or a piece of abstract music, was a programmatic description of the dancers themselves.
Invitation to the Dance was part of the repertoire of Franz Liszt, Frédéric Chopin, and many other pianists. It has been recorded by great artists of the past such as Artur Schnabel, Alfred Cortot, Ignaz Friedman and Yvonne Lefébure, through to those of the present day such as Stephen Hough, Jean-François Heisser, Michael Endres, Hamish Milne, and Balázs Szokolay. The Carl Tausig transcription has been recorded by Benno Moiseiwitsch and Philip Fowke.

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Easy going composition and interpretation, a hit for 200 years...

[@notaire2]

Wunderschöne Interpretation dieser beiden frühromantischen und fein komponierten Meisterstücke im lebhaften Tempo mit klarem doch elegantam Klang des technisch perfekten Klaviers und mit künstlerisch kontrollierter Dynamik. Echt intelligenter und talentierter Pianist!

[@yuehchopin]

Sehr schöne Sendung, danke 3x

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Thanks very much.

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Восторг и восхищение ❤

[@robert-skibelo]

Thanks so much for posting. Wonderful to have the score.

[@erika6651]

Danke. First time I've seen the actual German for the title of the piece!

[@Pikpus2357]

First time I’m hearing this Max-Walzer, do you know if Weber wrote it for his son (Max Maria)? Also W’s handwriting is quite beautiful. Thanks for doing these videos!