Mohammed Iqbal asks:

>Hi...  Brahms Hungarian Dances are his own music in the style of the gypsy
>music.  Right? Comment please.

Say it short Brahms's Hungarian Dances are neither Brahms's music nor
Hungarian.  In that time the light music played by Hungarian gipsys
was considered as Hungarian folk music.It was general known Carolyne
Wittgenstein's book, under the name of Liszt:  The gipsys and their music
in Hungary (1859).  It was translated into French and German.  That was the
source of this mistake.  Liszt himself used gipsy music in his Hungarian
Rapsodies.  The differences between Liszt and Brahms is that Liszt knew
them after ear while Brahms mostly read them from sheet.  Of course in
Vienna Brahms could hear gipsy music and he stayed in Budapest, and this
time he dropped in the publisher Rozsavolgyi (exsits until today) and asked
them to send in Vienna a lot of Hungarian dances.  On the base of this he
published his own working up.  (1869 and 1880).  He acquired the style in
such degree, that No.  11.  14.  16.  18.  completely and 15.  partial is
his own.  Only in No.  10.  is Hungarian folk melody.  The music used by
him in the others Hungarian Dances is composed by componists of smaller
importance, but they are known persons.

yours
sincerely:

Simonyi Janos, Budapest