Brahms was inspired by the folk music of Hungarian dances called csárdás. Listen out for each of the distinctive folk melodies. Can you recognise them when they repeat? They have a dance like ...

For the intro of her single ‘Alejandro’, Gaga neatly nabbed Csárdás, the rhapsodic concert piece for violin by Vittorio Monti – which itself was based on a traditional Hungarian folk ... Italian ...

While playing music in a tavern one evening Brahms met Eduard Remenyi, a famous Hungarian Gypsy violinist. Remenyi taught Brahms all about Gypsy music and Hungarian dances called csárdás.