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Mexican Waltzes

Ah, when people were decent and president Porfirio! The

popular

E L waltz, justly called, dance of kings and king of the dance . If in its origin, back in the twelfth century - a peasant dance (separate from the Austrian Tyrol) considered too daring; conquer letter of nobility from of the 1760's, in the Imperial city of Vienna, replacing gradually, and finally, later, the aristocratic minuet *: the traditional courtly dance.

to Mexico, this musical form would arrive late in the second half of the nineteenth , knowing its period of greatest growth during the Diaz regime. In the work of great composers, this new rhythm imported from abroad would soon acquire characteristics (becoming slower and becoming a genre best suited to be heard to be dance).

A story that certainly should bring it to mind, is that to be released the famous Waltz the waves, the most universal of Mexican waltzes, "the ; artist Juventino Rosas Guanajuato, there were those who said that beautiful music could not be made by a Mexican.

The truth is that not only the waltz is the work of a compatriot, but our country was at the time with a large number of compositions in this style that have nothing to envy of the great European masters.

Today, I am proud to present here a careful selection of Mexican waltzes.

















__________ * See the publication for the 28 August.