17 FLORIAN NOACK The desire to write the Paraphrase d’après différentes valses de Strauss grew out of my father’s love of this music and all the New Year’s Concerts we watched together. Most of the themes used come from lesser-known waltzes, such as the Kuss-Walzer (Kissing waltz). By way of introduction, I imagined a little waltzing figurine on a music-box gradually coming to life before returning to its status as an object. The Danserye (1551) of Tielman Susato, a sixteenth-century composer and printer based in Antwerp, is a collection of dance tunes arranged in four parts and published by Susato himself. I listened to them a lot as a child, before completely forgetting about them when audio cassettes became obsolete, only to rediscover them years later in the music for the film Elizabeth (1998) starring Cate Blanchett. Without laying claim to any historical authenticity, I allowed myself to be guided by their archaic flavour and arranged three of these dances, following to some extent the example of Poulenc and his Suite française.
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