Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1905-07-06
BIRTH OF THE WALTZ
THE DANCE HAD ITS ORIGIN EITHER
IN FRANCE OR GERMANY.

Society la an Upxoar.
No exact date can be ascribed to the |
introduction of the waltz into England
from France. La 1890 Gilray published
with the note that this was intended
for quiz upon the then foreign dance,
waltzing,' Again in 1910 the same art
list published another sketch, entitled
LA Walse, lie Bon Genre with the
note, The walse was ut this time new
in England and just coming into fash
ion.'
The fame, or, gather, notoriety, of the
new tlHss EaM, however, reached
HI gaes4d s6sae years previously. DR..
BurneY had seen it danced in Paris in
1850 and was moved to write, How
uneasy an Englsh mother would feel
to see her daughter SO unfamiliarly
treated and Still more to note the
obliging manner in which the free
dom is returned by the females"
Raikes i'll his Journal declares that
mo event ever produced so great
sensation ia English society as the in
PRODUCTION of the German waltz,
which he attributes to Baron Neu-
mann and sthers 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 practieing the figures of a
French quadrile or whirling chair
round ;the room to, learn the step and
measure of the German waltz.
1t was danced at AlRack's- by a few
very bold spirits, notably Lord Palmer
ston, Nine. de Lieven, Princess Ester
hazy and Baron Neumann, and thus
became matter Of exhibition, the
whole company standing on benches to
view the Performance.
However, the antiwaltzing party took
the alarm and cried it down. Mothers
forbade it, and every ballroom became
scene Of feud and contention. How
tain quarters is proved by the pasqui-
nades leveled against it. The famous
! seven lines commencing
what! THE girl adore by another en-
bracedE
are commonly attributed to Byron,
| though they were published anony-
mously in 1912, and some authorities
give Thomas Moore as the author. An
impromptu purporting to be addressed
by an indignant lover to his betrothed
and her partner echoes Byron's feel
ings:
You've brushed the bloom from the
peach
From the rose it's soft hue;
What you've touched you may take.
Pretty Walter, adieu.
Another poet delivered himself of the
/ following diatribe:
How arts improve in this inspiring age!
stage,
While watzing females, with unbushing
face,
Disdain to dance but in mans en-
brace.
1.-The waltz, however," continues
Raikes, struggled successfully through
all it's difficulties. Flaurhault, who was
Id heur du pois' in Paris, came over
and with a host Of others drove the
prudes into taeir intrenchments. AID
when the Emperor Alexander was seen
Waiting around, the roof at Almack' 5,
with his tight uniform and numerous
decorations they surrendered at discre
ton"
1t is a moot point whether the waltz
originated in France OF Germany,
whether it came from the French La
| Volta" 81, tRe &eGIlan national dance.
tie "Lasataies..' According to Frenc.i
authorities, La Volta was simply til
| waltz a trois temps. Provence was il
birthplace, and it was first Introduce.
| at the court of Henry II. at IHontaine
bleau in 1919 By the CJnte de Gaulte
| who is said to- have invented it, e.
many called it La Volta de saulte, ali
! the name is suitable both because o
| The etymolo:sT Of the word and til
iia.acter tie t.aGce.
| 1t enjoyed a great Fun Throughout
| France and eveA penetrated to iScot,
| !and. where it me- witt fu io2,S oppo j
lion, one writer averri2y that It's in
| portation into GRANGE I'D been eject
Oh by the 20 yer vi vi ches. Mary S a
| art once eXllisitcd her agility in thi3
/ lL.tute, Dul .t-iie sNdS ctEclui MOI u Ic-y
peat the experiment, and this wa'
| about the last hear. Of it,
| The case for Germany is that the
first waltz tune appeared in 1910 in a
popular song cal.el 20 du lieber Au-
| glstin." From Germany the dance
made its way to Vienna and was intro
duced into the ope.a, While by and by
it found its way to France, whence il
came to England" the insidious waltz,
| this imp OF Germany, brought up in
| France"
| The waltz when first danced in Lon
don was Il slow movement a trois
temps, and the early English watt
compositions were very poor. Strauss
came to Lyndon in 1887 to play at AL
| mack's, and.his waltz music created a
! perfect furore 1t killed the old trois
temps waltz, and the deux temps
usurped its place, Now that the fasci-
nation of.the waltz is all powerful, it is
difficult to realize the commotion it's in
trodnct1on caused. London Globe.