Instrumental Composition "Sad Waltz" by AlexLouder

AlexLouder's “Sad Waltz” is written in a style that can be called “Russian waltz”. This is a very special style. This very “Russian Waltz” is not at all a Viennese waltz in the style of the father and son Strauss, not a Parisian - with the same accordion and cracked baritone French chanson, and not the exquisite Chopin waltz. Russian Waltz is a completely different phenomenon, in many respects even more literary than musical.

Well-bred obscenity

The ability to waltz today seems to be a sign of aristocracy, and after all some two centuries ago this dance was considered completely indecent. In Russia, the waltz was under strict prohibition, which secured the order of Paul I to the military governor of St. Petersburg Alexei Arakcheev on December 1, 1797. Together with the waltz, the emperor forbade other "indecent phenomena": the wearing of whiskers, tail coats, and "jackboots, referred to as boots." In pristine Britain, until the middle of the 19th century, dance, in which partners approached each other very closely, was condemned by the official press and the clergy. So even the Queen Victoria, who ruled at that time, did not advertise that she actually loved to waltz. In 1834, for the first time, the waltz was publicly danced in the USA, in Boston, and outraged public figures called the dance "indecent and violating any decency".

Romantic Waltz by AlexLouder

Music has an amazing ability to influence the sensual life of people in the most subtlest details. But science does not know what exactly gives music this power over our psychological state. This fully applies to the Romantic Waltz of AlexLouder. This small instrumental piece evokes some associations with the Blue Danube of Johann Strauss.

Waltz know everything. It is danced at proms and weddings, at the famous Vienna Balls and in rural clubs. Waltz is one of the most romantic and favorite dances, uniting generations and plunging us into a state of some euphoria. Waltz can not be attributed to the ancient dances. Compared with the Allemande or chiming clock, the waltz is young. Its age is estimated at less than two centuries. But nobody knows the exact origin of this dance.