Edited by Joseph Smith
Format: Book
Number of pages: 128

This collection offers pianists on all levels an inexpensive and convenient single-volume compilation of waltzes in a variety of moods from such diverse composers as Bartok, Beethoven, Debussy, Faure, Grieg, Hindemith, Schubert, Scriabin, and Tchaikovsky. Highlights include Weber's 1819 "Invitation to the Dance," a brilliant arrangement of contrasting waltz themes; Dvorak's 1880 Waltz in E-flat, Op. 54, No. 8, which adds a Czech overtones to the dance form; ragtime renditions by Harry P. Guy and Scott Joplin; and an elegiac Valse by the youthful Billy Strayhorn, written before he discovered his jazz voice.