Csárdás

Composer: MONTI, Vittorio
  • Monti composed this work in 1904. It is scored for solo violin and orchestra.1
  • The csárdás is a Hungarian dance genre originating around 1835. It is not an authentic folk dance but was invented to evoke the feeling of peasant dance. The name means “country inn.”2
  • A csárdás generally consists of two sections: a slow, somber 4/4 opening followed by a frantically fast 4/8 section.3
  • The csárdás genre became popular throughout Europe during the Romantic period, as demonstrated by this, one of the most famous examples of the csárdás, composed by not by a Hungarian, but by an Italian.4

Sources

  1.  “Csárdás (Monti, Vittorio),” IMSLP, accessed November 19, 2019, https://imslp.org/wiki/Cs%C3%A1rd%C3%A1s_(Monti%2C_Vittorio). 
  2.  Jonathan Bellman, “Csárdás,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed November 19, 2019,  https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000006918. 
  3. Ibid.
  4. Ibid.

Cut IDs

41151, 41661