VALSE A TROIS TEMPS Twenty years ago, the Valse (or, as it was then pronounced, Waltz) was a stately measure, danced with gravity and deliberation.

We had another farewell all round when the valse was overGodmamma

His poetic impromptus for piano became the model for Mendelssohn's "Songs without Words," and the multitudinous forms of modern short pieces, while his melodious, dainty, graceful valses were the forerunners of the exquisite dance-music which subsequently made Vienna famous, and which reached its climax in Johann Strauss the younger, universally known as "the waltz king.