The mazurka originated in which country?
Mazurka in a protracted episode in "War and Peace", the dance is prominently featured in Ivan Turgenev's novel "Fathers and Sons". Arkady reserves the mazurka for Madame Odintsov with whom he is falling in love. During Russian balls, it was danced elegantly and famously by the Tsarina Maria Feodorovna, the second-to-last tsarina of the Russian empire before its collapse in 1918. In Swedish folk music, the quaver or eight-note polska has a similar rhythm to the mazurka, and the two dances have a common origin. The international version of the mazurka was also introduced under that name during the nineteenth century.
Mazurka Debussy's is a stand-alone piece, and Ravel's is part of a suite of an early work, "La Parade". Jacques Offenbach included a mazurka in his ballet "Gaîté Parisienne"; Léo Delibes composed one which appears several times in the first act of his ballet "Coppélia". The mazurka appears frequently in French traditional folk music. In the French Antilles, the mazurka has become an important style of dance and music. A creolised version of the mazurka is "mazouk" which—beginning around 1979 in Paris—morphed into the globally popular dance style “zouk” developed in France and popularised by Paris’s Island-creole supergroup Kassav’; "mazouk" had