Tales from the Vienna Woods (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Tales from the Vienna Woods (German: Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald) refers to several landmark works in Germanophone culture, including: a waltz by Johann Strauss II; a play by Odon von Horvath; and several film adaptations of the play. Although Strauss originally used the contracted spelling G'schichten for his waltz, the name is also commonly cited as Geschichten, which is also the version by which the subsequent dramas have been known. Composed in 1868, G'schichten aus dem Wienerwald, op. 325 was one of six Viennese waltzes by Johann Strauss II which featured a virtuoso part for zither. The waltz's premiere that year reiterated the ascendancy that the dance had made from its humble village origins to become one of the pleasures of fashionable Viennese society, largely thanks to the performing and composing talents of the Strauss dynasty. Nevertheless, the title of Strauss' dance recalls the folk music of the inhabitants of the Vienna Woods.