The original Hungarian Dance No.5 by Bela Keler which Brahms plagiarised-Memories of Bartfeld

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Well now this is the original of what we know as the Hungarian Dance no. 5 by Brahms. The slow intro leads to the fast 2nd part at 2:58 which you will recognize rather too well. Still I have to give Brahms credit for adding the slow parts of his own. He thought this was a Hungarian folk tune but Keler never got the credit he deserved!!!
Rumour had it Brahm's publisher intitially refused to publish it but later relented when Brahms admitted and acknowledged the original by Keler!
The original Hungarian title by Keler is 'Bartfai Emlek' -Bartfa is the Hungarian name of the Slovakian town 'Bardejov'-'Bartfeld' being the German name. The composer Bela Keler must have had a remarkable memory of this town to hit on such a memorable Csardas---it is also known as ' Bartfai Csardas'--Opus 31.
Of the 21 Csardas by Brahms only 3 were his original compositions (No. 11, 14 & 16 )!!!!!!!! By the way please don't enter into a debate about 'Csardas' ( which is actually Hungarian Dance spelt the Hungarian way--it is pronounced 'Chaardaash'-and don't tell me it is written as ;Czardas' or 'Czardasz' which is Polish spelling!

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[pdino1973]

Brahms didn't "plagiarize" the second theme of this composition. He mistakenly believed it to be a folk melody.

[BoratBrother]

@pdino1973 Won't you say that if you were Brahms?????

[DarthKhazad]

But we - polish people - love our Hungarians brothers. We love hungarian food and hungarian music, no matter how you spell it.