Watch Sir Anthony Hopkins as he hears the waltz he wrote 50 years ago played live by André Rieu and his JSO. Before taking up acting as a career, the Academy Award-winner was a musician. Fifty years ago he wrote a waltz but was too afraid to ever hear it play. Until, in 2011, he asked André Rieu to play his composition “And the Waltz Goes On”. In a 2012 interview with The Guardian, Hopkins stated, “I’ve been composing music all my life and if I’d been clever enough at school I would like to have

"It is a real piece of art if you can make a waltz sound like it is the easiest piece of music to play, because it’s really not." 🎥 André Rieu - Emperor Waltz | André Rieu

Let’s waltz back to Vienna and relive one of our most majestic Strauss moments: The Emperor Waltz at Schönbrunn Palace 🎶 Celebrate 200 years of Johann Strauss with us and watch the special playlist on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbv4mtcyLmhJn80s6CODxqd0MScQZwvJC | André Rieu