My orchestration of this waltz by Fahrbach, sen. I have no idea what the title refers to. It dates from 1873/4, which at least rules out the Emperor’s age.

As usual with Fahrbach, it is an interesting piece of music. He does seem to have got stuck up a cul de sac by this time though. The piece is much more rhythmically interesting than any of his contemporaries’ but lacks an atmospheric opening and any real earworms. It might be considered the ultimate development of the Lanner waltz style (and there is the odd Lanner fingerprint in here) but it’s not a style anyone else was following by then, not even Fahrbach’s son. The developments introduced by Johann II and Josef Strauss have won the day.