@brewsterkahle Lovely!
The theme of the Florentiner march is a conversation - the ligthter tones representing a Florentine lady talking non-stop, with her German companion just barely managing to sneak in a "ja-wohl" now and then (in darker tones).
In Italy, people from Florence (and women in particular) are known not to be particularly talkative - but next to the average German, even a reserved Italian would sound like the lady in this march!
@sab Thank you! what a wonderful explaination. I am going to copy it to the comment in the internet archive item (hope that is ok).