Indance, thegalop, named after the fastest running gait of a horse (seeGallop), a shortened version of the original termgaloppade, is a lively country dance, introduced in the late 1820s to Parisian society by theDuchesse de Berry and popular in Vienna, Berlin and London. In the same closed position familiar in thewaltz,^{[citation needed]} the step combined aglissade with achassé on alternate feet, ordinarily in a fast²
₄ time.

The galop was a forerunner of thepolka, which was introduced in Prague ballrooms in the 1830s and made fashionable in Paris when Raab, a dancing teacher of Prague, danced the polka at the Odéon Theatre in 1840. In Australianbush dance, the dance is often calledgalopede. An even livelier, faster version of the galop called thecan-can developed in Paris around 1830.^{[citation needed]}

The galop was particularly popular as the final dance of the evening. The "Post Horn Galop", written by thecornet virtuoso Herman Koenig, was first performed in London in 1844; it remains a signal that the dancing at a hunt ball or wedding reception is ending.^{[citation needed]}

• Numerous galops were written byJohann Strauss II.
• Dmitri Shostakovich employed a "posthorn galop" as the second Allegroscherzo of hisEighth Symphony in 1943, and another galop in Act 1, scene 3 ofLady Macbeth of Mtsensk.
• Franz Schubert composed the "Grazer Galopp". He also composed the fourth movement of hisSymphony No. 2 as a galop.
• The "Devil's Galop" byCharles Williams
• The "Infernal Galop" fromOrpheus in the Underworld byJacques Offenbach
• The "Comedians' Galop" fromThe Comedians byDmitry Kabalevsky^{[citation needed]}
• The "Prestissimo Galop" byÉmile Waldteufel.
• The "Malapou Galop" byJoseph Lanner.
• Danish composerHans Christian Lumbye (1810–1874) wrote several galops, including the "Telegraph Galop" (1844),^[2] the "Champagne Galop" (1845)^[3] and the "Copenhagen Steam Railway Galop" (1847).
• George Gershwin composed the galop "French Ballet Class" for two pianos in his score for the filmShall We Dance.^[4]
• Galops were also written byNino Rota.
• Franz Liszt wrote some galops for piano, notably the "Grand Galop Chromatique" (1838) and the "Galop in A minor" (1846).
• Csikós Post byHermann Necke.
• Isaak Dunayevsky wrote some galops, including one for the film "The Son of the Clown" (1950).

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