📚 The Waltz

The turn-in-a-circle scandal of 1800: its music, its manners manual, and the Strauss franchise.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject waltz in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The waltz	Mosco Carner	1948	8
	The dance of death	Ambrose Bierce	1877	7
	The history of the waltz	Eduard Reeser	1949	3
	Leading competition figures for the waltz and foxtrot	Christopher R. Willis	1979	3
	Waltzing	Richard Powers	2013	3
	Iogann Shtraus	E. Meĭlikh	1962	2
	El Vals	Remi Hess	2004	2
	Brahms e il walzer	Marina Caracciolo	2004	2
	A description of the correct method of waltzing	Wilson, Thomas dancing master.	1816	1
	A description of the correct method of waltzing	Thomas Wilson	1816	1
	The correct method of German & French waltzing	Wilson, Thomas dancing master	1817	1
	Recueil d'un genre nouveau, de contredanses et walses	J. H. G.	1819	1
	The dance of life	Bowers, J. Milton Mrs.	1877	1
	The dance of life	Theresa Shirk Bowers	1877	1
	The dance of death	Ambrose Bierce	1877	1
	An easy method of learning the waltz	Slye, Edward P[ayson] jr.	1905	1
	Die Geschichte des Walzers nebst einem Anhang über die moderne Operette	Bruno Weigl	1910	1
	Unsterblicher walzer	Fritz Klingenbeck	1940	1
	Birth of the waltz	Paul Nettl	1946	1
	The waltz	Mosco Carner	1948	1
	Das Walzerbuch	Fritz Klingenbeck	1952	1
	Waltz made easy	Dance Guild, inc., New York.	1956	1
	Standard American waltz	John Clancy	1961	1
	Iogann Shtraus	Evgeniĭ Iosifovich Meĭlikh	1962	1
	Das kleine Walzerbuch	Hans Weigel	1965	1
	Wiener Walzer	Christl Schönfeldt	1970	1
	El waltz y el valse criollo	César Santa Cruz Gamarra	1977	1
	Studien zur Geschichte des Klavierwalzers	Alfred Stenger	1978	1
	Fasching in Wien	Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien.	1979	1
	La valse	Rémi Hess	1989	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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