Great classical Waltzes?

Question

I`ve just recently wrapped my piano fingers around "The Swan Lake Waltz".

I`m working on "The Blue Danube" & "The Flower Waltz" & exploring my mom`s old classical sheet music `cos it has loads of gems.

Any other great familiar waltzes?

Answer 1

The ones you're working on are all good! I think you'd also have fun with this one:

Juventino Rosas "Over The Waves"
http://www.kickassclassical.com/rosas_overthewaves.mp3

Answer 2

Sleeping Beauty Waltz- Tachiakowsky. Eugene Onegin also composed by him has a great waltz.

Emile Waldteufel wrote The Sakters Waltz, aloing with Estudiantino Waltz, which was the Theinegold Berr copmmedcial.

Walt from the opera Faust is also popular- ny Charles Gounod

Chopin wrote many waltzes for piano, some of which have been transcribed for Symphony, like The Minute Waltz, and the Waltz in C Shapr minor. The Grand Waltz Brilliante in E Flat Major is long and beautiful

Tales From The Vienna Woods by Strauss is another great wone, along with Wine, Women and Song,

Answer 3

Since you liked the music from Swan Lake, you may like the Chopin waltzes that others have already mentioned, especially the Grande Valse Brilliante. You can hear all of them in symphonic arrangements on the soundtrack for the ballet "Les Sylphides", but they were all originally composed for piano, so you may enjoy them more than a Strauss waltz which will be a piano transcription of an orchestral piece.

Answer 4

Waltzing Matilda

Answer 5

As others have said, anything by Johann Strauss the younger will be wonderful.

Also try Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier
Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty Waltz

If you like Americana, "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" and "After the Ball is Over" are both waltzes people can sing along with.

Answer 6

The Skaters waltz

Answer 7

Try Chopin 10th. The loveliest for piano (I think so)
Aaron Copland's Waltz from Rodeo.
Tchaikovsky Waltz from the Serenade for Strings.
Sibelius Valse Triste

Answer 8

The Emporor Waltz and the Minute Waltz spring to mind

Answer 9

I assume when you say Classical you mean the genre, and not the period of composition. There is an incredible amount of pieces for piano that sound melancholy - just look out for anything that's really written in a minor key. Anyhow, here a few recommendations: (Just about any of chopin's nocturnes): Chopin - Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2 The Moonlight Sonata There are a lot of sad sounding funeral marches, specifically Chopin's and Beethoven's. There is tonnes of sad pieces for piano... Just google it to find something you like. Honestly, the list goes ever on.

Answer 10

The Blue Danube is very cute and have an uplifting mood.

I agree on all the Chopin's Waltz, very romantic.

Waltz by Dmitri Kabalevsky, easy and sound very good.

But my favorite are Chopin's. It'll have you spend sometime to work on the whole book.

Answer 11

You could try the "Minute Waltz" by Chopin. That'll keep your fingers busy.Also the "Merry Widow" waltz. There 's loads more but it's a long time since I played and I can't remember!