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As I have been posting quite a bit of American-produced dance music from the 1870s and 1880s to IMSLP lately I ran across the following work: Galopp Raffinirt - a galop on motives of J. Raff.  Lots of dance music based on the then-popular operas and operettas (Sullivan, J. Strauss Jr., Audran, Lecocq, Suppé, and Millöcker being well represented) was produced but this seems to be rather unique among the scores I've seen.  There are just no dances based on works like Beethoven's Symphonies or Mendelssohn's Songs without Words.  There is the remote possibility the J. Raff in question is Joachim's brother Joseph Kasper Raff who was still an active composer in New York state at the time.  From what I've seen all of J.K. Raff's works were registered for copyright protection so Wiegand's publisher (Carl Fischer) would have required permission (and typically there would be a notice to that effect on the score--there isn't any).  If someone could identify the themes that would certainly solve the question of which J. Raff.  Not the weighty symphonies and concertos that typically get discussed here but for your listening enjoyment here is Wiegand's Galopp Raffinirt.  Thanks!

While in the process of transferring some scores from the National Library of Spain to IMSLP I ran across a work by Raff that has been misidentified by the original publisher and whose actual identity eludes me.  The work can be found here: http://bdh.bne.es/bnesearch/detalle/3782966. It was published around 1877 by Choudens who identified it as Nuit étoilée: nocturne pour piano, op.29 which it can't be as opus 29 was destroyed by Raff according to the catalog at raff.org.  Please enlighten me Raff gurus! Thanks!