Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1905-07-06
BIRTH OF THE WALTZ
THE DANCE HAD ITS ORIGIN EITHER
IN FRANCE OR GERMANY.

| and For Time Had FashfonabIe
Society In an Uproar.
No exact date can be ascribed to the
introduction of the waltz into England
from France. In 1900 Gilray published
a caricature of couple Waiting.
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 at this time new
in England and just coming into FASH
ion.'
the fame, or, rather, notoriety of the
new dance had, however, reached
England some years previously. DR..
Burney had seen it danced in Paris in
1850 and was moved to write, How
uneasy an English mother would feel
to see her daughter SO unfamiliarly
treated and still more to note the
obliginS manner in which the free
dom Is returned by the females"
Raikes in his journal declares that
no event ever produced so great a
sensation 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, We're now absorbed at
home in practicing the figures of a
French quadrile or whirling 4 chair
round the room to learn the step and
measure of the German waltz.
It was danced ut A!maeks by 2 few
very bold s.5.riss, HoJaGlT Lord Palmer
stan- Nlae do I.icven. princess Esyer
hay a.id -2,a::'a:l ,a- and tins
became matter of exhibition. the
Whole comnsny standing on benches to
view The PR 1rmauce.
However, the antiwa,tzing party took
the alarm sad cried i, down Mother,
forbade it, and every ballroom became
a scene o. feud and contention. How
profound "as it, ul"o. clarity in GER
tain Guartc.5 IS proved by the pasaui-
nades l2yelca against it. The famous
seven lines commencing
what! The girl adore by another en-
braced!
are commonly attributed to Byron.
though they We're 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 its soft hue:
What you've touched you may take
Pretty Walter, adieu.
Another poet delivered himself Of the
following L. :: = .s.:. ,--.-----
How aats trrnsoye
While Waiting females, with unblushing
Disdain to dance but in mans en-
BRACE
1.-The waltz, however, continues
struggled successfully through
all it's difficulties. Flaurhault, who was
la heur du pois' in Paris, came over
and with host of others drove the
prudes into their intrenchments. And
when the Emperor Alexander was seen
around the roof at Allnack's,
with his tight uniform and numerous
decorations, they surrendered at discre-
ton"
1t is 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
La Volta was simply the
waltz trois temps. Provence was it's
birthplace, and it was first introduced
at the court of Henry II. at Fontalne-
bleau in 1866 by the Comte de Saulte,
who is said to have invented it, for
many called it La Volta de Saulte, and
the name is suitable both because of
the etymology of the word and the
character of the dance.
1t enjoyed great run throughout
France and even penetrated to Scot
land, where it met with furious opposi-
ton, one writer averring that its inn
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
first waltz tune appeared in 1870 in
popular song called 20 du lieber Au-
Sustin." From Germany the dance
made it's way to Vienna and was intro
duced into the opera, while by and by
it found it's way to France. whence it
came to England-"the inSidiouS waltz,
this imp Of Germany, brought up in
France"
The waltz when first danced in Lon
don was a slow movement trois
temps, and the early English waltz
compositions We're very poor. Strauss
came to London 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 it's place. Now that the fasci-
nation of the waltz is all powerful. 1t Is
difficult 10 realize the cOmmOtiOn IFS in