Rodolphe Berger, Parisian by birth, was a French dance composer. He deserves credit for having translated the Viennese slow waltz into French. An enthusiastic biographer says of him: ...Did Rodolphe Berger not deserve to be born in the kingdom of the waltz, in Vienna, like his great predecessor Johann Strauss? And could one not almost say that, cradled by the carefree music of the ,,Beautiful, Blue Danube," he would have known how to lure the Danube to the flowery banks of the Seine with flattery, seductive words and genuine Parisian amiability?" Berger had a strong success right from his first compositions. Among his works, which are as numerous as they are varied, are marches, polkas, mazurkas, gavottes, ballet interludes, chansons and romances, two pantomimes and an operetta. In addition, thetr were many slow waltzes in which he showed himself most inventive and original.
