Galánta is a small Hungarian market-town known by the travellers from Vienna to Budapest. The composer has passed through there many times during his childhood, at the time there existed a famousGipsy-band which has disappeared since, their music was the first 'orchestral sonority' which came to the ear of the composer.

The forbearers of these gipsies were known already more than a hundred years ago, about 1800some books of Hungarian dances were published i