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