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.
There was a wide range of styles, from Baroque (Bach, Handel) through classical (Haydn, Beethoven) to Romantic dances (Strauss) and salon-pieces (Hollaender, Rehbaum, Juon). As can be seen from the covers below, items were classified in three levels of difficulty: leicht (easy), mittel (medium) and schwer (difficult). Many of the pieces also appeared in Schlesinger's Stücke alter Meister series.
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Contents
- 1st series
- 100 items:
- 1 Aria Suite in D Bach
- 2 Schwedische Melodie Wilhelmj
- 3 Berceuse Op28 No3 Juon
- 4 Menuet Boccherini
- 5 Melisande Sibelius
- 6 Walzer Op.38 No.10 Gustav Holländer
- 7 Meine Freuden Chopin
- 8 Berceuse Simon
- 9 Nachtfalter Walzer Op.157 Strauss
- 10 Abendlied Op.85 No.12 Schumann
- 11 Gavotte Rameau
- 12 Mai-Walzer Maether
- 13 Wiegenlied Op.5 Krall
- 14 Kronungsmarsch Meeyerbeer
- 15 La musette : air de ballet du 17e siècle. Jacques Offenbach Ad Grünwald
- 16 Kol Nidre Op44n o1 E.D.Wagner
- 17 Etude op 25 no2 Chopin
- 18 Menuett Schubert
- 19 Wiegenlied Op 85 Ebann
- 20 Sicilano Bach
- 21 Uber den Wellen Rosas
- 22 Andante Religioso Op 23 Hirsch
- 23 Preciosa Ov Weber
- 24 Gavotte Martini
- 25 Venezianisches Ständchen (Hoffmann, Karl)
- 26 Elegie Ernst
- 27 Schwedischer Tanz Juon
- 28 Zwölf Stücke : Op.38 No.4 In der Mühle. (Gustav Hollaender)
- 29 Barentanz Op 3 No3 Fink
- 30 Adagio Weber
- 31 Nocturne Op 32 no 1 Chopin
- 32 Romanze, Op.4 (Petersen, John)
- 33 Gavotte Gossec
- 34 La mélancolie by Georg Hellmesberger
- 35 Heilige Christfreude Op 54 No 3 Wagner
- 36 Adagio Bach
- 37 Lorelei Rhein Klange Op 154 Strauss
- 38 Romanze : aus der Sonate für Violine und klavier, Op.7 Juon
- 39 Am Meer Franz Schubert
- 40 Le reveil du lion Op 115 Kontsky
- 41 Albumblatt Op6 Suk
- 42 Romanze Haydn
- 43 O bitt euch Gumbert
- 44 Menuett Beethoven
- 45 Ungarishe Tanze op 26 1 Kassmeyer
- 46 Cavatina Op13 Brockway
- 47 Standchen Schubert
- 48 Burleske : Op.5, No.2 Th Rehbaum
- 49 Das Grab auf der Haide, Op.30 (Heiser, Wilhelm)
- 50 Pastorale : Op.147 Spohr; Carl Nowotny
- 51 Preussenmarsch Golde
- 52 Nocturne Op32 no2 Chopin
- 53 Romanze Paganini
- 54 Deutsche Tanze Beethoven
- 55 Pastorale : Op.147 Spohr; Carl Nowotny
- 56 Menuett Handel
- 57 Zigeunerlust, Op.60 No.3 (Stern, Julius G.)
- 58 Aria Haydn
- 59 Teufel-Polonaise : Op.32 Gust Graben-Hoffmann
- 60 Romanze Op.50 Beethoven
- 61 Kanzonetta (aus dem Violinkonzert), Op.35, Tchaikovski,
- 62 Minuet Mozart
- 63 Adagio Haydn
- 64 Feuillet d'album Heller-Ernst
- 65 La Complaisante CPE Bach
- 66 Serenade Haydn
- 67 Die lustigen Weiber Nicolai
- 68 Gavotte Op40 No2 A Hollaender
- 69 Aufforderung zum Tanz Op65 Weber
- 70 Elegie, Op.11 (Böhmer, Alexander)
- 71 Walzer Kuhlau
- 72 Barber of Sevlle Overture Rossini
- 73 Traumerei Schumann
- 74 Arioso, Op.28 No.2 Juon
- 75 Staendchen, Op.6 Hanicki
- 76 Fruhlingslied Op38 No.5 G Hollaender
- 77 Madchens Wunsch Schibert
- 78 Romanze Mestrino
- 79 Die Biene = L 'abeille = The bee, Op.13, No.9 Francois Schubert; Michael Press
- 80 Ungarische Tanze Kassmeyer
- 81 Romance Op.40 Beethoven
- 82 Serenade melancolique Op.26 Tschaikowsky
- 83 Tendre aveu : pensée intime Op.8 Alfred Nemours
- 84 Largo Handel
- 85 Perpetuum Mobile :Paganini August Wilhelmj.
- 86 Juon Ballade, Op.28 No.1
- 87 Le Bavolet flottant Couperin
- 88 Romanze: Op.10 August Wilhelmj
- 89 L'Absence Bazzini
- 90 Hochhzeitsmarsch : Op.61 No. 4 Mendelssohn- Julius Stern
- 91 Barcarole : Op.135, No. 1 Louis Spohr Carl Nowotny
- 92 Sonatine Op.10 No.1 Hauptmannn
- 93 Pagoden-Polka Bayer
- 94 Der Freischutz Overture Weber
- 95 Radetsky March Strauss
- 96 Berceuse, Op.33 (Rehfeld, Fabian)
- 97 Juon Rondo, Op.28 No.4
- 98 Schumann 2 kleine Stucke Burmester
- 99 Menuett Grazioli
- 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.
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Typical cover, 1st series
Typical cover, 2nd series
