DESCRIPTION:
For more music by Paul Lincke, please checkout my playlist http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIaVIXV8ILjlI3pj8eGaQnOotoDFhSQ7v

Carl Emil Paul Lincke (7 November 1866 -- 3 September 1946) was a German composer and theater conductor and is popularly known as the father of German operetta. He was to Germany as what Johann Strauss Jr was to Austria.

This is arguably Paul Lincke's best known piece of music. The original is a song from the 1902 operetta Lysistrata. It is in the form of a Gavotte. This idyll arranged for solo piano is in an ABA form, with the song and chorus framing as the first part; the middle section comprises a lyrical and romantic melody, and reprised by the song and chorus again.

There are many contemporary arrangements of this song.