Franz Schubert - Waltz in B Minor Op 18 no 6 (D145) | Piano Synthesia | Library of Music

At the request of Alex Music Waltz in B Minor Op 18 No 6 from 38 Waltzes, Ländler and Ecossaises D145 - difficulty 4/10 The Ländler had just passed the heyday of its vogue as Austria's premiere dance during the last years of the nineteenth century's second decade, and would shortly be brought to the brink of extinction by its quicker-tempoed sister-dance, the waltz. Franz Schubert was most likely to have written the more-or-less undateable 17 Ländler, along with the 12 waltzes and 9 ecossaises of his Op. 18 (D. 145) during that time. Schubert's 17 Op. 18 Ländler capture the once-rustic dance at its healthiest and most good-natured, and it is not at all difficult, listening to them, to appreciate the wistful nostalgia that some late German Romantic composers (Mahler key among them, Bruckner not far behind), many years later, would feel for the dance. Description by Blair Johnston