Annotation:Lady Cholmondley's Waltz
X:1 T:Lady Cholmondley’s Waltz C:”by Weippert” M:3/8 L:1/8 R:Waltz B:William Campbell – “Campbell’s 12th Book of New and Favorite Country Dances & B:Strathspey Reels for the Harp, Piano-Forte & Violin, with their Proper Figures, as B:Danced at Court, Bath, Williss’s, & Hanover Square Rooms” (Soho, London, c. 1797, p. 17) F: https://vmirror.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/9/9a/IMSLP655932-PMLP1052069-campbells12thboo00camp.pdf Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:F V:1 A/B/|ccf|ddf|ec/d/e/c/|fe/f/g/a/|ccf|ddf|ec/d/e/c/|f2:| |:c|bba|ggf|ec/d/e/f/|ggc|bba|ggf|ec/d/e/c/|f2:| |:c|c2A|A2F|GG/A/B/c/|AFc|c2A|f2d|cc/A/B/G/|F2:| V:2 clef = bass z|F,A,C|F,B,D|G,B,C|F,A,C|F,A,C|F,B,D|G,B,C|[F,2A,2]:| V:2 clef = treble |:z|[EG][EG][FA]|[GB][GB][FA]|[EG][GB][FA]|[CEG][CEG][CFA]|[C2E2G2][FA]|[C2G2B2][FA]|[GB][GB][GB]|[F2A2]:| V:2 clef = bass |:z|F,A,C|F,A,C|C,G,C|F,2z|F,A,C|F,B,D|F,A,C|[F,2A,2]:|
LADY CHOLMONDLEY'S WALTZ. English, Waltz (3/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. "Lady Cholmondley's Waltz" was composed by "Weippert", perhaps Johann Erhardt Weippert (1766-1823), a harpist and composer who was the German-born scion of a musical family that became central to the London musical scene in the late 18th and early 19th century. Several generations of Weipperts were composers, bandleaders, dancing masters and music publishers in the city.
The Cholmondeley family have lived at Cholmondeley Castle since the 12th century, surrounded by a 7,500 acres estate near Malpas, Cheshire. From the dates of publications containing the melody, it may be surmised that Lady Cholmondley was perhaps Lady Georgiana Charlotte Bertie, the wife of George Cholmondeley (1749–1827), 1st Marquess of Cholmondeley, whom she married in 1791. Through this marriage the ancient hereditary office of Lord Great Chamberlain came into the Cholmondeley family. Her daughter was Lady Charlotte Georgiana Cholmondeley (1795–1828), who married Lieut.-Col. Hugh Henry Seymour in 1818.
Lincolnshire fiddler Joshua Gibbons set the tune in they key of 'G' major in his original early 18th century mss. In America, the melody appears in the music manuscript collections of New York keyboard player Ann Winnington (c. 1810). Published American versions include Robinson's Massachusetts Collection of Martial Musick (3rd ed., 1826), Paff's Gentleman's Amusement, No. 1 (New York, 1812), Ball's Gentleman's Amusement Book 3, (New York & London, c. 1830), Williams' New and Complete Preceptor for the Fife (Utica, N.Y., 1819), and Whiteley's Instrumental Preceptor (Utica, N.Y., c. 1816).
