Waltz Timeline Page

Date

Name of Waltz

Location

Creator

Note

1200s

- Westphalia

Province, FR.

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-

1525

- Dreher

Germany

-

AKA: Walzer.

1556

- Volta /Valzer

Province, FR.

-

-

1580

- Fuhrungen

Ausberg - Austria

-

AKA: Fuhrung. described by Montaigne in 1580

1580

- Weller or Spinner

Vienna

-

described by singer Kunz Haas in 1580.

1590

- Nizzarda

France

-

had similarities to the waltz.

1600

- La Volte

France

-

-

1670

- Walzen / Walzer

Germany?

-

AKA: Drehar (with song title "O du lieber Augustin.)

1690

Ländler aka: Hospur

Upper Austria

-

1695

- Hole in the Wall

USA?

- Playford

3 count dance

1720?

- Hospur

Austria

-

AkA: Landler

1720

- Weller

Vienna

-

Precursor to the Waltz.

1750

- Waltz

Germany

-

1st. true Waltz (but see Walzen)

1786

- Viennese Waltz

Vienna

-

fast turning waltz. (180bpms+)

1800

- Valse

Germany

-

-

1812

- Drekkar

Germany

-

AKA: Imperial Waltz

1812?

- Imperial Waltz

Eangland

-

AKA: Drekkar

1816

- Mazy Waltz

Vienna

-

AKA: La Sauteuse or Waltz á trois temps, Old Waltz, New Spring Waltz.

1820s

- Hop Waltz

-

-

-

1829

- Hungarian Waltz

Italy?

inadvertantly by Rossini

-

1834

- Boston / American Waltz

Boston, MA.

Lorenzo Papatino

AKA: the Boston Dip became the Glide Waltz and Slow Waltz (90bpm).

1840s?

- Canter Waltz

USA

-

2 steps per bar

1840s

- Schottische Waltz

Germany

-

AKA: Polka

1840

- Columbine Waltz

-

-

-

1843

Knickerbocker Waltz

N/A

First found date on Sheet Music for this dance aslo see 1888

1845

- Waltze à Cinque Temps

Paris

Perrot for Celarius

-

1860s

- Waltz La Veliers

France

-

-

1866

- Gitana Waltz

-

-

-

1866

- Valse L' Americain

Paris, Fr.

Societe' Academique des Profeseurs de danse

1864

- Redowa

Bavaria

-

really a polka.

1870

- Boston Dip

USA

-

Variation of the Boston. AKA: Glide Waltz.

1874

- Glide Waltz

-

-

AKA Boston dip (the glide replaced the dip.)

1879

- Boston Wave Waltz

-

.

-

1879

- Five Step Waltz

ENGLAND

-

-

1880s

- Hesitation Waltz /Valse

-

-

(or Valse) later made popular by Vernon Castle.

1880

- Opera Waltz

n/a

??? Prof. Mueller ???

1880

- Presidential waltz of America

n/a

??? Prof. Mueller ???

1880

- Prize Waltz

n/a

??? Prof. Mueller ???

1880

- Telephone waltz

n/a

??? Prof. Mueller ???

1881

- College Step Waltz

NEW YORK

Acolor=ccepted 4/10/1881 by the American Society of Professors of Dancing.

1888

- Knickerbocker Waltz

NEW YORK

Allen Dodsworth Creation. aka Wave, Racquet, Newport

1900s

- Philidelphia Boston

USA

-

AKA: One Step Waltz, Long Waltz, The Drop Step

1900s

- Valse Maurice

USA

Maurice Maurice

-

1910

- Credo Waltz

USA

Prof. Oskar Duenweg of Terra Haute (Dance Masters of America)

Dedicated to President Rosevelt (aka Rosevelts Gavotte)

1910s

- 5/4 Waltz

USA

-

Associated with the Half & Half

1912

- Lame Duck Valse

NEW YORK

The Castles

-

1912

- Marimba Waltz

USA

-

-

1912

- Nights of Gladness Waltz

-

-

Derived from the Boston

1912

- Whirlwind Waltz

USA

Ned Wayburn

-

1913

- Hesitation Boston

NEW YORK

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-

1914

- Love Waltz, the

St. Louis, M

Orlando (Schmuck) and Esterre (Racine) of Fort Wayne, Indiana

Supposedly very pretty and Advanced

1914

- Dorothy Waltz

-

Dorothy Dickson & Carl Hyson

-

1914

- Miller Whirl

USA

The Marvelous Millers

A Mixture of basic Waltz, Boston and Apart dancing featuring a Whirl

1914

- Pauline Waltz

-

Pearl White

1917

- Mary Pickford Waltz

-

-

-

1917

- Trasko, the

Ohio

presented by Mrs. Karl Von Rabe

Basically just a Pirouette added to the Waltz

1919

- Rocker, the

London

n/a

A Waltz with Hesitations, Twinkles and Pivot Combinations

1930s

- Jitterbug Waltz

-

-

-

1934

- Champagne Waltz

NEW YORK

Arthur Murray

-

1937

- Swing Waltz

-

-

-

1955

- Kinsey Waltz

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