As longtime readers know, Valentine’s Day is my least favorite of holidays, and I’m not particularly fond of the typical iconography associated with it, either (which is often weird or violent or creepy as hell). So every year I try to share an exception, like this cute kitten valentine which eschews the usual terrible puns in favor of a simple, direct message which could have been written by a computer, had computers existed back then.
Valentine’s Day 2022
February 14, 2022 by Maggie McNeill
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For reasons I do not know, Bohemian born American composer Anthony Philip Heinrich loved Valentines, and wrote various musical Valentines.
In his lifetime Heinrich was considered “America’s Beethoven”. He died almost forgotten in 1861, just before America’s Civil War.
Heinrich’s musical Valentines for pianoforte included the joyous Valentine Wedding Waltz, “petite caprice, scherzando e brilliante”, and the satirical Valentine for the New York Philharmonic Society.
To this day, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra has not performed a note of Heinrich’s symphonic works.
Here, Heinrich expert Artis Wodehouse performs his Valentine Wedding Waltz for pianoforte on a restored Melodeon foot pump organ: