Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Lost Chopin music unearthed nearly 200 years after composer’s death
Born in 1810, Frederic Francois Chopin was a Polish composer of piano
works and virtuoso pianist. After finishing his musical education in Warsaw, he
settled in Paris at the age of 21. His piano works include ballades, etudes, impromptus,
mazurkas, nocturnes, polonaises, preludes, scherzos, sonatas, and variations.
He also wrote eight waltzes between 1831 and 1847. Recently, a curator at a
museum in New York discovered another waltz written by Chopin in the 1830s.
Because of the size of the sheet of paper and the length of the work, it is
believed to have been written for a gift but was not sent. It was the first
discovery of Chopin’s work since the late 1930s. Indeed, there are famous
musical works that had not been published or premiered until decades or even
over a century after the composer's death, such as Bach’s Cello Suites and Schubert’s
Last String Quartet. Though the newly-found Chopin’s waltz lasts only a minute,
it is a new piece of work by the great piano music composer.
Read the article and learn about Chopin’s newly found pian work.
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