Vienna Waltz. Music for ballroom dancing.

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The king of the dance cannot be easy. Viennese (aka fast) waltz, the most difficult to perform. After all, you need to have mutual understanding in the pair and elegance in steps and lines. Taut body, closed position and smoothness must be present.

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The Viennese waltz is elegant, majestic, and at the same time full of passion and intimacy of the dancing partners - no wonder that many young couples choose it for their first dance. Although the steps and figures of the Viennese waltz are not so difficult, achieving the smoothness and ease of movement in the performance requires systematic training.

The Viennese waltz is a rather dynamic dance (tempo - about 60 beats per minute), its main feature - rotational movement, which is not unimportant, counterclockwise. As a result, it requires relatively good physical training, because maintaining the right tempo is extremely important in the classic Viennese waltz.

The history of the Viennese waltz is several hundred years old, because the first mention of this kind of dance appeared in the XIV century. It probably originated from folk dances, popular at that time in Germany and Austria. Over time, of course, it has evolved, slowly making its way into the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. When it was first presented to the Viennese court and high society, it elicited mixed feelings - both delight and disapproval. Not only because the partners in the dance touch their bodies from the knees to the chest (the so-called closed frame), but also because of the dynamic rotation, so characteristic of this dance. Some have even argued that this pace of the waltz, together with the accompanying rotation, could be dangerous to the health or even the lives of the dancers.

The popularity of the Viennese waltz peaked in the nineteenth century. In Austria, during the Congress of Vienna, the dance instantly gained popularity in the ballrooms and became one of the most fashionable and famous dances of the European aristocracy and lower classes in just a few or a dozen years.

Already in the nineteenth century the Viennese waltz became popular not only as a dance, but also as a piece of music that was willingly performed by bands, musical ensembles and even orchestras. Its popularization was due, among others, to Johann Strauss, who composed some of the most famous waltzes, such as "Above the Beautiful Blue River Danube", "Stories of the Vienna Woods", "Southern Roses", "Waltz of a Thousand and One Nights", and Peter Tchaikovsky ("Waltz of Flowers" from "Grandfather Nuts"). It is these tunes that many newlyweds choose for their first wedding dance. The Viennese waltzes are not only lyrical but also full of romance, they touch the heart.