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