Product Description
This version of Chopsticks is written in the style of piano artist, Liberace. It contains all of the runs and decorations,
that made him famous around the world. Now you can learn to play this well known song, in the same style!
"Chopsticks" (original name "The Celebrated Chop Waltz") is a simple, widely known waltz for the piano. Written in 1877, it is the only published piece by the British composer Euphemia Allen (under the pseudonym
Arthur de Lulli). Allen-whose brother, Mozart Allan, was a music
publisher-was sixteen when she composed the piece, with arrangements for
solo and duet.
Euphemia Amelia Nightingale Allen (18611948) was a British composer.
She composed the song "The Celebrated Chop Waltz" or now known as
"Chopsticks" in 1877, at the age of 16, under the pseudonym Arthur de
Lulli. She was the sister of music publisher Mozart Allen. Allen was the
daughter of William Elder Allen, a well-known dancing instructor in
Glasgow, and Agnes Allen (née Letham). The 1901 Scotland Census states
her occupation as 'teacher of the piano forte'. At the time of the
census she was living with her brother E. J. Mozart Allen, his wife
Christina, and their father William along with Mozart and Christina's
three children. According to her death certificate, Allen was a Music
Publisher (retired). She never married.
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