My orchestration of from the Spina piano score of this waltz by Philipp Fahrbach I.

My apologies for two consecutive Fahrbach pieces. It wasn’t planned. There’s been a lot happening chez CPE and I needed cheering up. I thought I would transcribe one of my favourite Lanner waltzes. 19 pages of error strewn handwriting. I finished page 17 and turned the page. I had failed to copy page 18. Definitely my fault as the original was double sided and I had copied pages 17 and 19. That didn’t cheer me up at all so I thought I would do this typically oddball waltz by Fahrbach. (Can you have something typically oddball?) That definitely cheered me up. The Lanner will have to wait until my next trip to Vienna unless someone has page 18 of the manuscript to Die Werber?

Anyway, here is Fahrbach’s vision of morning songs. I suspect he is pretty much alone in this vision. You’d expect a “dawn and sunrise” introduction followed by a standard waltz. Not a bit of it. No introduction at all (unless the publisher didn’t print it) and most of the ten waltz sections depict things that happen on a typical morning. Not my typical morning. They are -

1A – Morning Dreams
1B – Awakening – Cock Crows
2A – Hunting Greeting
2B – Horn Call
3A – General Activity and Happiness (after being blasted out of bed by fff horns?)
3B – Alpine Song
4A – Military Exercises
4B – Untitled
5A – Introduction to the Last Dance
5B – The Last Dance

Where did he live?

Much amusement was had orchestrating the thing. I am sure it’s not a bit like the original.