WoO 8 – 12 German Dances for Orchestra
WoO 8 – Twelve German Dances for Orchestra, November 1795, first published (in score) in the GA., 1864. GA. no. 17 (series 2/8) – B. 140 – KH. (WoO)8 – L. IV, p. 342/1-2 – N. p. 136 – P. 58 – T. 36.
Compositional details: For all dances: 2 horns, violins I and II, cellos, and double basses; and additionally: for the first and seventh dances: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 trumpets, timpani; for the second and eighth: 2 flutes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons; for the third: 2 oboes, 2 bassoons; for the fourth and ninth dances: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 bassoons; for the fifth: 2 clarinets, 2 trumpets, timpani; for the sixth dance: piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 bassoons; for the tenth dance: piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 2 trumpets, timpani, bass drum, snare drum, triangle; for the eleventh: piccolo, 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 2 trumpets; for the twelfth dance: piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, posthorn, 2 trumpets, timpani, bass drum. Composed alongside the Minuets mentioned in the previous entry and for the same occasion. The same details and observations apply. The original manuscript is lost. An old copy of the score is preserved in the Deutsche Staatsbibliothek in Berlin.
WoO 8 12 German Dances for Orchestra: Vals.. VI Gallopader for Pianoforte. (OG No. 8)
No.1 Vals af Beethoven
No.2, 3, 4 Gallopader af Kalliwoda
No. 5, 6, and 7 Gallopader af H. E. Lumbÿe
Forlagt af C. D. Milde
Printed score preserved in Det Kongelige Bibliotek Danmarks Nationalbibliotek Københavns Universitetsbibliotek (same theme as 12 German Dances WoO 8: No. 6)
Jan Křtitel Václav Kalivoda (in German Johann Baptist Wenzel Kalliwoda) (Prague, 21 February 1801 – Karlsruhe, 3 December 1866) was a Czech composer, violinist, and conductor.
He studied violin with F. W. Pixis and composition with D. Weber at the Prague Conservatory from 1811 to 1817, winning a scholarship in 1815 for being the best student. After completing his studies, he became a member of his hometown opera orchestra (1817-1823), where works by Mozart, Cherubini, and Rossini were performed. In 1822, he became conductor of the private Orchestra of Prince Fürstenberg in Donaueschingen, inviting other renowned performers of the time, including Schumann, Liszt, and Thalberg. At the same time, he undertook numerous European tours, especially to Linz and Munich, as a violin soloist. In 1858, he performed for the last time in Prague, his birthplace, and in 1866 retired to Karlsruhe, where he passed away that same year, dedicating himself to teaching.
As a composer, he gained some recognition in Germany. Robert Schumann spoke admiringly of his Fifth Symphony (1840), and the same Saxon composer, in the third movement of his Fourth Symphony (1841, later revised in 1851), nearly directly quoted the Minuet from Kalliwoda’s First Symphony op.7 (1824).
Hans Christian Lumbye (Copenhagen, 2 May 1810 – Copenhagen, 20 March 1874) was a Danish composer and conductor. One of the few Danish composers known abroad, he composed more than 700 works, mainly mazurkas, polkas, gallops, and marches. He is known as the Strauss of the North. Born to a military family that frequently moved, he began his violin studies in Randers (1816-1821). In Odense, at the age of fourteen, he joined the band of a dragoon regiment while simultaneously furthering his theoretical training, which soon led him to compose his first marches. In 1829, he transferred to Copenhagen as a trumpeter with the dragoons. In 1832, he married Georgine, and they had five children, two of whom became musicians. In 1872, he was forced to retire due to the worsening deafness he suffered from.
E. Pauer Rondeau – Valse
sur des themes de Beethoven à Mad.lle Mathilde Löwengard
Ernst Pauer (Vienna, 21 December 1826 – Seeheim-Jugenheim, 5 May 1905) was an Austrian pianist, composer, and teacher.
Pauer had a direct connection with the great Viennese traditions: he was born in Vienna, his mother was a member of the famous Streicher piano family, and for a certain period (1839-44) he was a piano student of Mozart’s son, F.X.W. Mozart, and a composition student of Simon Sechter. After further studies with Franz Lachner in Munich (1845-1847), he worked as a conductor and composer in Mainz before moving to London in 1851.
During the Great Exhibition in London in 1862 at South Kensington, he was engaged to perform daily piano recitals at the Exhibition Palace.
From the beginning, Pauer’s piano playing was admired in London, and he developed a series of concerts there, with numerous program notes illustrating the development of keyboard music from 1600 to the modern era; in the following years, he gave lectures on this and many other topics. For five years, he was part of the staff at the National Training School for Music (1859-64) and was later recruited in 1876 as a piano professor at the new Royal College of Music. He was also an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Music at the University of Cambridge.
Pauer’s interest in early keyboard music and historically informed performance was reflected in his numerous editions. He was also active as a writer and arranger. He retired in 1896 to Jugenheim, Germany, where he died in 1905.
Concerning Beethoven, one notable publication is: Complete Piano Works of L. van Beethoven. Edited by Ernst Pauer. London, Augener & Co., 1865–1873.
As for the Rondeau – Valse sur Themes de Beethoven, the themes are drawn from the series “Zwölf deutsche Tänze WoO 8”
Max von Pauer, Ernst’s son (1866-1945), was a world-renowned pianist.