The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1905-08-01
RIRTH 0F TlHE "a By .LIZ
TBE DANCE HAD ITs ORIGIN EITHER
III FRANCE OR GERMANY

ia INTRODUCTION INTO England caused
q Great scandal In That Country
ana For n Tfme Had FashiOnabAe
society In an Uproar.
No exact date can be aseribed to the
introduction OF the waltz into England
from France. In 1900 Gilray published
a cartcaturc OF a couple waItzine'
With tho note that this was intended
for o ,HSJz upon the then foreign dance,
waltsSdg." Again in 1870 the same art
ist published another sketch, entitled
ga walse, LIE Bon Genre" with the
note. THE walse was at this time new
In England and just coming INTO iasn-
Iou."
The fame, or, rather, notoriety. of the
now dance had, however, reached
England some years previously. DE-.
Burney had seen 1t danced in Paris In
1850 anil was moved to write, How
uneasy al English mother would feel
TO see her daughter SO unfamiLarly
treated and still more to note the
oblIgIng manner in which the free
dom Is returned by the females
RaIkes In his journal declares that
emo event ever produced SO great a
sensatioh in English society as the In
PRODUCTION of the German waltz,
which he attributes to Baron Neu-
mann and others about the year 1911.
He relates how the mornings, which
had hitherto been dedicated to loung-
Ing IN the park, were now absorbed at
home in prncticing the figures OF a
French dundrilIe or whirling chair
round the room to learn the step and
measure of the German waltz
IT was danced at Almuck's by few
very bold spirits, notably Lord Palmer
ston, Nine. de Lgeven, Princess Ester
hnzy and Baron Seumann, and thus
became a matter OF exhibition, the
whole company standing on benches 20
view the performance.
However, the antiwaItzing party took
the alarm and cried it down. Mothers
forbade it, and every ballroom became
n scene of feud and contention. How
profound was its unpopularity IN GER
tain quarters is proved by the pasqul-
nades leveled against it. me famous
seven lines commencing
what! The girl I adore by another enn-
braced"'
are commonly attributed to Byron,
though they We're published anony-
mousIy in 1912, and some authorities
give Thomas Moore as the author. An
impromptu purportinS to be addressed
by an indignant lover TO his betrothed
ana her partner echoes Byron's feel
lngs:
You've brushed the bloom from the
From the rose its soft hue;
what you've touched you may take
Pretty Walter, adieu.
Another poet delivered himself of the
following diGtribe:
How arts improve In this inspiring agcl
Peers mount the box. and horses tread the
While o'9 @aitzinE females. with unblushins
pisdai lSei to dance but in a mans eun-
brace.
1.-THE waltz. however" continues
Rafkes, struggled sue c2.;sfully through
all its difficulties. I-!nurhauit, who was
ia fieur du poIs' in Paris, came over
and with Il host OF others drove the
prudes into their intrenchments. And
when the Emperor Alexander was seen
Waiting around the roof at Almack's,
with his tight uniform and numerous
decorations, they surrendered at discre-
ton
1t is a moot point whether the waltz
originated in France or Germany,
whether it came from the French la
Volta" or the German national dance,
the Lander" According to French
authorities, In Volta was simply the
waltz IL trois temps. Provence was it's
birthplace, and it was first introduced
at the court. of Henry II. at Fontaine-
bleau in 1853 by the Comte de Saulte,
who is said to have invented it, for
many called 1t La Volta de Saulte, and
the name is suitable both because of
the etymology of the word and the
~, - ,.n f.tar OF tho 1nncR.
1t enjoyed u great run throughout
France and even penetrated to Scot
land, where it met with furious oppost-
ton, one writer averring that it's i'm
portation into France had been effect
ed by the power OF witches. Mary Stu
art once exhibited her agility in this
dance, but she was careful not to re-
peat the experiment, and this was
about the last heard of it.
The case for Germany is that the
Arst waltz tune appeared in 1870 In a
popular song called 20 du lieber Au-
Eustin." From Germany the dance
made its way to Vienna and was intro
duced into the opera, while by and by
It found it's way to France, whence 1t
came to Englnnd-"the insidious waltz,
this imp of Germany, brought up In
France"
The waltz when first danced in Lon
don was slow movement trois
temps, and the early English waltz
compositions were very poor Strauss
came to London in 1897 to play at AL
mack's, and his waltz music created Il
Oerfect fllrore 1t killed the old trolls