Aufforderung zum Tanze Rondo Brillant für das Piano=Forte componirt und seiner Caroline gewidmet von Carl Maria von Weber. Gespielt vom Componisten in seinem Concerte zu Berlin. ... Op: 65. Preis 18g.
Berlin: Schlesingerschen Buch= und Music[!]khandlung [PN 1096], [1821].
Oblong folio. Modern dark gray cloth-backed marbled boards with dark olive green leather title label gilt to upper. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 3-14 pp. Engraved. First Edition, probable first issue. Rare. Fuld issue (a), pp. 304-305. Jähns 260, p. 282. Hoboken 15, 357 (a later issue).
Written at the same time Weber was composing his opera Der Freischütz, the Aufforderung zum Tanze ("Invitation to the Dance") is considered to be the first actual concert waltz (i.e., designed for listening rather than for dancing); it was part of both Liszt's and Chopin's repertoire.
" ... the famous Aufforderung zum Tanze is 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 poème choréographique, La Valse." Warrack: Carl Maria von Weber, p. 199.
Bound with:
Sieben Variationen ueber ein Zigeuner Lied für das Pianoforte ... Op. 55 ... Preiss 10 g. [1] (title), 2-7, [i] (blank) pp. Engraved. Berlin: Schlesingerschen Buch= und Music[!]khandlung [PN 1025], [1819]. First Edition. Jähns 219, p. 230. Hoboken 15, 331.
Binding slightly worn, rubbed, and bumped, label with details of Op. 65. Very slightly browned; occasional foxing, a bit heavier to Op. 65.
"A prototypical 19th-century musician-critic, [Weber] sought through his works, words and efforts as performer and conductor to promote art and shape emerging middle-class audiences to its appreciation. His contributions to song, choral music and piano music were highly esteemed by his contemporaries, his opera overtures influenced the development of the concert overture and symphonic poem, and his explorations of novel timbres and orchestrations enriched the palette of musical sonorities. With the overwhelming success of his opera Der Freischütz in 1821 he became the leading exponent of German opera in the 1820s and an international celebrity. A seminal figure of the 19th century, he influenced composers as diverse as Marschner, Mendelssohn, Wagner, Meyerbeer, Berlioz and Liszt." Philipp Spitta et al. in Grove Music Online.
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