Schubert at the piano, with his inexhaustible wealth of dance melodies, his friends around him dancing and playing jokes – this is one of the traditional images of Schubert that we so cherish. The term Schubertiade invented for this kind of get-together is now solidly established. In this selection of the loveliest and most frequently played dances, one finds 59 waltzes, 40 ländler or Deutsche as well as four écossaises and a minuet. In selecting the works, care was taken to ensure that individual pieces of more or less the same level of difficulty are grouped together (from easy to medium: 3 to 5).
Song List
Schubert: 12 Grazer Waltzes op. 91 D 924
Schubert: 12 Waltzes from op. 18 D 145
Schubert: 15 Waltzes from “First Waltzes” op. 9 D 365
Schubert: 16 “L–ndler” and two Ecossaises op. 67 D 734
Schubert: 16 German Dances and two Ecossaises op. 33 D 783
Schubert: 18 Waltzes from “34 Valses sentimentales” op. 50 D 779
Schubert: 6 German Dances D 820
Schubert: 8 Dances from: Twelve German Dances named “L–ndler” op. post. 171 D 790
Schubert: Trio to be regarded as lost son of a Minuet D 610
Schubert: Variation on a Waltz by A. Diabelli D 718