...fans of Blake Edward's "The Great Race", who are perhaps classical-music savvy!!!?

Question

In the soundtrack of director Blake Edward's classic screwball 1920's auto race comedy, "The Great Race", there is a ballroom scene, where The Great Leslie (Tony Curtis) has just met an effeminant & drunken Prince Hapnik (Jack Lemmon), and is shocked to find that the prince looks uncannily like his nefarious nemesis, Professor Fate (also Lemmon). Soon after this encounter, the entire ballroom crowd breaks out into a grand waltz.

The waltz being played (orchestrated by the late great Henry Mancini...a regular in Blake's films) is a medley of three/four waltz pieces, the most familiar one of which, being "The Blue Danube".

I was hoping that perhaps someone learned in movie soundtracks & classical music, might recognize the other pieces; it's entirely possible that Mancini mixed classical waltz pieces with his own, based upon the scene. I'm hoping that someone might know, otherwise.

Amazon.com has the CD, but the only waltz on the song list is called "The Royal Waltz".

...good show, and Bravo to you, Plimothy!!!

"Tales from the Vienne Woods" was definately one of them; I've been trying to sample the First Waltz Sequence from Der Rosenkavalier, OP. 59, via Yahoo! Music, but the selections are almost countless, and they're all in German!.....an ironic revelation, since German is my family lineage!!!

...sampling all these pieces....This is definately gonna take a while!!!

Answer 1

I thought it was set in the first decade of the last century....

Anyway, one of the waltzes Mancini used may be "Tales from the Vienna Woods," and another the "First Waltz Sequence" from Der Rosenkavalier, two other Strauss pieces. See link, below.

(LATER)
Fun puzzle, for a movie I enjoyed as a kid.

Answer 2

I can hear the music in my head but I can't help you here. One of my favorite movies of all time. Maybe at the end of the movie it might list the music. I know movies now show all the songs and its info.
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