Santu Desilva wrote:

>Can anyone help me?  I am trying to figure what the original work was in
>a couple of pieces that Fritz Kreisler used to perform as bon-bons.
>
>Two of them were designated Andante Cantabile, one was from Mozart, and
>the other was from, I believe, Tchaikovsky.  My understanding was that
>the Tchaikovsky was from a string quartet in C.  Is this correct?  What
>is the opus number, does anyone know?

It is the second movement of the String Quartet No. 1 in D, op. 11

>The other work is also from Mozart, and is called the Minuet in D.  Of
>course Mozart wrote hundreds of minuets, and a good number of them were
>in D.  I understand that looking for this movement is like looking for a
>needle in a haystack; but knowing that Kreisler played it as a solo
>(with piano accompaniment) probably narrows it down.

Wish I could help you, Archie, but I don't have any idea what it could be.
I've already checked in my bonbon collection with no luck.

Mimi Ezust