Hungarian dances

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Hungarian Dance No. 5, Fulda Symphony Orchestra

The Hungarian Dances No. 1–21 o.op. (WoO 1) by Johannes Brahms are originally works for piano four hands . They are among his most popular works.

Emergence

The Hungarian Dances were written in the original four-hand piano version between 1858–69. Dances nos. 1–10 were published in two issues in 1869, and numbers 11–21 in 1880 in two further issues. In 1872 Brahms composed the first 10 dances for piano solo. With the exception of numbers 11, 14 and 16, these are not original ideas of Brahms, but rather adaptations of found melodies. However, the originals are not original folk songs by Hungarian Roma , as is often assumed, but Brahms had got to know the themes from the violinist Eduard Reményi ; some of them may have come from Reményi himself and some from other composers of Hungarian folklore of this period.

Hungarian Dance No. 6, Fulda Symphony Orchestra

For three of the dances (Nos. 1, 3 and 10) Brahms wrote orchestral arrangements in 1873 that on February 5, 1874 conducted by the composer in Leipzig premiere were. The remaining dances were orchestrated by other arrangers, especially those of the first two volumes (No. 1–10) also several times by various arrangers in the 19th ( Hallén , Parlow , Dvořák ) and 20th (Schollum, Schmeling, Gál ) centuries. In some of the dances the key was changed. The violinist Joseph Joachim , a friend of Brahms, created a virtuoso arrangement of all Hungarian dances for violin and piano.

The dances

No. Tempo designation Key
piano version		 Key for
orchestral version		 Known orchestrations (year of publication)
1 Allegro molto G minor G minor Johannes Brahms (1874)
2 Allegro non assai D minor D minor Andreas Hallén (1894)
3 Allegretto F major F major Johannes Brahms (1874)
4th Poco sostenuto F minor F minor / F sharp minor * Andreas Hallén * (1894), Paul Juon * (1908), Robert Schollum (1955)
5 Allegro F sharp minor G minor Albert Parlow (1876), Martin Schmeling (1864–1943; 1928)
6th Vivace D flat major D major Albert Parlow (1876), Martin Schmeling (1928)
7th Allegretto A major F major / A major * Andreas Hallén * (1894), Martin Schmeling (1928)
8th Presto A minor A minor Robert Schollum (1955), Hans Gál (20th century)
9 Allegro non troppo E minor E minor Robert Schollum (1955), Hans Gál (20th century)
10 Presto E major F major Johannes Brahms (1874)
11 Poco andante D minor D minor Albert Parlow (1881)
12 Presto D minor D minor Albert Parlow (1881)
13 Andantino grazioso D major D major Albert Parlow (1881)
14th Un poco andante D minor D minor Albert Parlow (1881)
15th Allegretto grazioso B flat major B flat major Albert Parlow (1881)
16 Con moto F minor F minor Albert Parlow (1881)
17th Andantino F sharp minor F sharp minor Antonín Dvořák (1880)
18th Molto vivace D major D major Antonín Dvořák (1880)
19th Allegretto B minor B minor Antonín Dvořák (1880)
20th Poco allegretto E minor E minor Antonín Dvořák (1880)
21st Vivace E minor E minor Antonín Dvořák (1880)

reception

Brahms' Hungarian Dances have been used in various films and series, including Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator , Bugs Bunny, and Ren and Stimpy .

literature

  • Burkhard Rempe: Hungarian dances. In: Wulf Konold (Ed.): Lexicon Orchestermusik Romantik A – H. Schott, Mainz 1989, ISBN 3-7957-8226-0 , pp. 99-101

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