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Rudolf Friml: Valse Nina

738 views · Published 7 May 2016 · 2:11 · Indexed 6 November 2026

Channel: PSearPianist · 2016 · Music

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Phillip Sear plays an attractive waltz from 1922 by the Czech composer Rudolf Friml (1879–1972).
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Friml is remembered today for his hugely successful operettas 'The Vagabond King' and 'Rose Marie'. However, he started his professional life as a pianist, having studied piano and composition with Dvorak in Prague—and was still performing as a pianist into his nineties. He moved to the USA in the early 1900s and published several light piano suites there. It is fascinating to trace through them changes in his style from the early Dvorak influences towards the cosmopolitan Hollywood composer he became.  This seems to be a stand-alone piece, and I am uncertain whether it has any connection with the principal character in Friml's early operetta, 'The Firefly'.

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