As the old Polish saying has it 'Touch the lute after Bakfark', concerning people who set about something in lack of required talent and skills.

Patronage and encouragement from the gentry determined both the ideological tenor and emotional aspects of this music. This attitude to 'Verbunkos' made quasi-national heroes of some virtuoso violin-players. As general belief had it, the dance, deemed to be an ancient one, and its musical accompaniment revived not only the era of Rákóczi's insurrection (1703 to 1711) but even the spirit of our conquering forefathers(of the 9^th century), as well. Although this view proved to be erroneous, yet there is no doubt that the concurrence of Hungarian dance music traditions and the European art music of the 18^th and 19^th centuries gave birth to a musical style with unmistakable characteristic features and indisputable grounds for the existence, ...