Description
Brahms' Hungarian Dances remain among his most popular works, even though he did not actually compose them. As he clearly stated on the title page of the first edition, he "only compiled them for piano duet." In other words, Brahms took existing Hungarian dance tunes, combined them into a larger collection, and then published the resulting work, initially in a piano duet arrangement, as this format was highly popular at the time. The first two volumes containing Dances 1-10 were published in 1869, followed by two additional volumes with Dances 11-21, added by Brahms in 1880.
