Here we offer a beautiful arrangement for easy piano transposed to G Major from the original key in G flat major by Richard Straus. You and your audience will love playing this piece.



Leopold Kupelweiser was the son of Johann Baptist Georg Kilian Kupelwieser (1760?1813), co-owner of a factory that produced tableware. His talents were recognized at an early age by the sculptor Franz Anton von Zauner and by the time he was twelve, he was already attending the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.

His brother was the theatrical director Joseph Kupelwieser, who wrote the libretto for Schubert's opera Fierrabras. With his brother, Joseph, he was a member of the "Schubertianern" (friends of Franz Schubert), a group that often got together for summers at the Schloss Atzenbrugg, west of Vienna. In 1826, Leopold married Maria Johanna Evangelista Augustina Stephania Theodora Lutz, an occasion which was marked by Schubert's composition, the "Kupelwieser Waltz" (never written down, but passed along by the family and later transcribed by Richard Strauss).

Die Studies for player piano des 1912 geborenen Amerikaners Conlon Nancarrow beweisen auf ebenso spielerische wie virtuose Art, dass der Einsatz eines mechanischen Klaviers weder zur Automatisierung der Musik noch zur Fliessbandproduktion eines Komponisten fuhren muss. Nancarrow lasst parallel bis zu acht unabhangige Stimmen in einer ubermenschlichen rhythmischen Prazision und unglaublichen Schnelligkeit erklingen.