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You\u2019re listening to Johannes Brahms and the Banda de Estado Mayor de Mexico. That\u2019s right, a Hungarian danza by a Mexican banda.
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\nYou're on the Sound Beat.
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\nBrahms composed 21 danzas, basing them on Hungarian folk themes. Mostly\u2026in fact, he thought this one, number 5, was based on a folk song, but that song turned out it to be an original composition by B\xe9la K\xe9ler.
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\nYou may have heard it in the Charlie Chaplin film \u201cThe Great Dictator\u201d, in which Chaplin shaves a man to the tune. Brahms himself was cleanshaven until his mid-30\u2019s. And, by the way, described as \u201cHerculean\u201d. Though A late-comer to the no-shave game, he ended up with a magnificent specimen towards the end.
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