This short piece was composed by Schubert in 1826 for the wedding of Leopold Kupelwieser and Johanna von Lutz. According to an account of a member of the Kupelweiser family: "It is a characteristic of this incredibly talented and music-loving era that Schubert did not need to write this waltz down at all, it was enough that he played it a few times and everyone could replay it by heart. This is how my wife had learned it from her grandfather Paul Kupelwieser and so the family’s waltz was preserved for the next generation." The version we know today was written down many years later by Richard Strauss, also a friend of the Kupelwieser family.