Schwätzerin

If Johann Strauss II was the “waltz king” of Vienna, his brother Joseph was the polka prince, as adept at devising clever titles as he was at inventing catchy tunes. He was also an expert in the art of combining the duple-time polka with the triple-time mazurka - which was tricky but, since it is characteristic of the mazurka that its rhythms quite often fit into duple time, not quite as difficult as it seems. His Schwätzerin (“Chatterbox”) polka-mazurka is a particularly delightfuland ingenious example of its kind