Chopsticks (waltz)

Written in 1877, it is the only published piece by the British composer Euphemia Allan (under the pen name Arthur de Lulli).

[1] Allan—whose brother, Mozart Allan, was a music publisher—was sixteen when she composed the piece, with arrangements for solo and duet.

[2] An equivalent of this rudimentary two-finger piano exercise was known in Russia in duple meter as "tati-tati" or the "Cutlet Polka".

In 1877, Alexander Borodin's daughter Gania played "The Coteletten Polka", with four bars of music similar to the beginning of Allan's work, though there is no hard evidence of a common source between the two pieces.

According to Fuld's book World-Famous Music, no common origins for the "Chop Waltz" and the "Coteletten Polka" have yet been discovered.