Is Mazurka Hungarian or Polish music??

Question

Is Mazurka Hungarian or Polish music??

Answer 1

It's Polish.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazurka

Answer 2

Well , I've read that Chopin composed his Mazurkas & Polonaises , out of the Polish folklore , and so the Mazurka is Polish music.

Answer 3

A mazurka is a Polish dance.  I'd suggest trying to find some video of people dancing the mazurka.  Musically, mazurkas are in 3, with a "pause" of sorts on either beat 2 or 3.  This "pause" goes along with the dance, and it is interesting to see it as well as hear it.

Chopin was Polish, so its easy to see how Polish folk music and dance influenced him.

For Hungarian music, listen to Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsody" (any of them), or music by Bela Bartok.

Answer 4

     Since Chopin wrote so many of them, I would imagine it's the latter; all you would have to do to find out for sure, is to simply "Google" it.

                                                     Alberich

Answer 5

Polish, its a lively dance in triple meter similar to a polka. It spread in popularity from poland throughout europe both as a dance and as a musical form in classical music. some classical forms call for a dance movement in the 3rd of a 4 movement piece, or as one of a set of dances like in a ballet, like in Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.  Other composers like  Chopin (who was Polish) used the mazurka as the form for short classical pieces which were technically challeging and had an element of excitement and passion.