Lehar: Vilja (from "The Merry Widow")

[Martin Jonas]

Franz Lehár (1905): Vilja-Lied, from "Die lustige Witwe" ("The Merry Widow")

This is probably the best-known musical number from Lehar's "The Merry Widow", also sometimes spelled "Vilia" in English.

This is our own group's instrumental arrangement for mandolin, mandola (octave mandolin) and guitar --I think it's by Tony Judge, before I joined the group. It's long been a favourite piece of some of our players, as it suits the mandolin so well.

1890s Umberto Ceccherini mandolin
Mid-Missouri M-111 octave mandolin
Ozark tenor guitar



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