Historical Publication Info
Anthologie: Konzertstücke, Vortragsstücke, Salonstücke
History
The series started in ca. 1895.
Singen und Klingen, a companion series for cello edited by van Lier, Press, Kummer etc, with at least 73 items was published at the same time.
As can be seen from the covers below, items were classified in three levels of difficulty: leicht (easy), mittel (medium) and schwer (difficult).
Editors
Publishers
Template
Contents
- 1st series
- 100 items including:
- 6 Walzer Gustav Holländer
- 15 La musette : air de ballet du 17e siècle. Jacques Offenbach Ad Grünwald
- 25 Venezianisches Ständchen (Hoffmann, Karl)
- 28 Zwölf Stücke : Op.38 No.4 In der Mühle. (Gustav Hollaender)
- 32 Romanze, Op.4 (Petersen, John)
- 34 La mélancolie by Georg Hellmesberger
- 38 Romanze : aus der Sonate für Violine und klavier, Op.7 Juon
- 39 Am Meer Franz Schubert
- 48 Burleske : Op.5, No.2 Th Rehbaum
- 49 Das Grab auf der Haide, Op.30 (Heiser, Wilhelm)
- 55 Pastorale : Op.147 Spohr; Carl Nowotny
- 57 Zigeunerlust, Op.60 No.3 (Stern, Julius G.)
- 59 Teufel-Polonaise : Op.32 Gust Graben-Hoffmann
- 61 Kanzonetta (aus dem Violinkonzert), Op.35, Tchaikovski,
- 70 Elegie, Op.11 (Böhmer, Alexander)
- 74 Juon Arioso, Op.28 No.2
- 75 Staendchen, Op.6 Hanicki
- 78 Romanze Mestrino
- 79 Die Biene = L 'abeille = The bee, Op.13, No.9 Francois Schubert; Michael Press
- 83 Tendre aveu : pensée intime Op.8 Alfred Nemours
- 85 Perpetuum Mobile :Paganini August Wilhelmj.
- 86 Juon Ballade, Op.28 No.1
- 88 Romanze: Op.10 August Wilhelmj
- 90 Hochhzeitsmarsch : Op.61 No. 4 Mendelssohn- Julius Stern
- 91 Barcarole : Op.135, No. 1 Louis Spohr Carl Nowotny
- 96 Berceuse, Op.33 (Rehfeld, Fabian)
- 97 Juon Rondo, Op.28 No.4
- 100 Larghetto von W.A. Mozart : (Op.108 K.581) August Wilhelmj
- Second Series
- 100 items
The title (Heaven (or the sky) is full of violins (or fiddles)) is an allusion to a German expression meaning something like "all fine and dandy" but implying that the situation could deteriorate before long. Some dictionaries suggest that it comes from mediaeval paintings in which angels in heaven are depicted playing violins.
Many of these works seem to have been reprinted in the graded series Die Wundergeige in the 1920s.
Images
Typical cover, 1st series
Typical cover, 2nd series