Conductor, B. WALTON O'DONNELL
In text and in music alike, Brahms's Liebeslieder Waltzes capture a great deal of the true folk spirit, in its gayest and most laughing mood.
They were written in a very sunny period of Brahms's career, when he was beginning to be confidently assured of his position as a master of music, and they quickly added a great deal to his popularity with the German people as a whole. In this country we cannot pretend to know them at all well as we do the Hungarian Dances, but in Germany they had almost as big a share in making his name the household' word it has ever since been there.