Grossvater-Tanz

Believed at one time to be a 17th-century German dance (with words referring to a grandfather's wooing), sung and danced at weddings, and later used as the final dance at balls and therefore called Kehraus, ‘sweep-out’. Robert Schumann used it both in Papillons, Op. 2, and Carnaval, Op. 9, in the latter to stand for the ‘Philistines’ in the finale. The dance was actually written by Karl Gottlieb Hering (1765–1853).