La cachucha (Anonymous)

First Publication	1840
Genre Categories	Dances; Works with undetermined instrumentation; For piano (arr); For 1 player (arr); Scores featuring the piano (arr); For guitar (arr); Scores featuring the guitar (arr)
Related Works	this dance exists in several collections, and there are also several fantasias, or variations, on it: La Cachucha, Op.36 (Burgmüller, Friedrich) Caprice sur l'air espagnol 'La Cachucha', Op.13 (Coste, Napoléon) Hamilton's Universal Tune-Book (Various) Méthode de castagnettes (Heugel, Jacques-Léopold) Échos d'Espagne (Lacôme d'Estalenx, Paul) Cachucha-mazurk, Op.57 (Lamothe, Georges) Cachucha-Galopp, Op.97 (Strauss Sr., Johann) Airs populaires, chants nationaux et motifs célèbres (Vilbac, Renaud de)

Sheet Music

Complete score (G major)
*#356546 - 10.03MB, 4 pp. - 0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 251×⇩ - Jiloxiga

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Jiloxiga (2014/12/16)

Publisher. Info.	Boston: H. Prentiss, 1840.
Copyright	Public Domain [tag/del]
Misc. Notes	"As Danced by Mad'lle Fanny Elssler; Performed with unbounded applause by the Boston Brigade Band "
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Complete score (D major)
*#356547 - 0.44MB, 2 pp. - 0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 278×⇩ - Jiloxiga

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Jiloxiga (2014/12/16)

Arranger	James Ballard
Publisher. Info.	New York: C. T. Ceslain, 1840.
Copyright	Public Domain [tag/del]
Misc. Notes	"As Danced by Mad'lle Fanny Elssler"
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Complete Score
*#451571 - 0.71MB, 6 pp. - 0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 46×⇩ - Stefan Apke

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Stefan Apke (2016/12/17)

Arranger	Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti (1800-1878)
Publisher. Info.	New York: Philip Ernst & Son, 1846. Plate 30_6.
Copyright	Public Domain [tag/del]
Misc. Notes	"Souvenir de Fanny Elssler. The much Admired Cachucha."
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Work Title	La cachucha
Alternative. Title	The Original Castanet Spanish Dance
Composer	Anonymous
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.	IA 89
Key	G major
First Publication.	1840
Piece Style	Romantic
Instrumentation	undetermined
Related Works	this dance exists in several collections, and there are also several fantasias, or variations, on it: La Cachucha, Op.36 (Burgmüller, Friedrich) Caprice sur l'air espagnol 'La Cachucha', Op.13 (Coste, Napoléon) Hamilton's Universal Tune-Book (Various) Méthode de castagnettes (Heugel, Jacques-Léopold) Échos d'Espagne (Lacôme d'Estalenx, Paul) Cachucha-mazurk, Op.57 (Lamothe, Georges) Cachucha-Galopp, Op.97 (Strauss Sr., Johann) Airs populaires, chants nationaux et motifs célèbres (Vilbac, Renaud de)

The performance of the ballerina Fanny Elssler (1810-1884) brought a great popularity to this Spanish dance in the 1830s.