Andrew Jackson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Ok Guys, what is FS 135? When was the Cobbler's Wedding Waltz written?
>First with the correct replies gets the title.

The Cobbler's Wedding Waltz (and not a lot of people know this) is actually
an early draft of another piece by an altogether different composer.
Written by a fellow by the name of Franz, it was first played in a piano
reduction at the head of a coalmine shaft in the Ruhr valley.  Regrettably,
the podium collapsed halfway through the performance, sending the piano
plummeting down the shaft and ending in the unfortunate demise of a passing
miner.  The composer, wishing to memorialize the regrettable event, renamed
the piece, which we know today as "Shoe Bert's First Sympathy in A Flat
Miner."

Tim Mahon
Failing to Resist the Irresistible