Description

• Composer: Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
• Editor: Ewald Zimmermann (1910-1988)
• Fingering: Hans-Martin Theopold
• Instrumentation: Piano
• Work: Waltz in A-flat Major, Op. 42
• Binding:
• ISMN: 9790201813226
• Size: 9.3 x 12.2 inches
• Pages: 12
• Urtext / Critical Edition

Description

The fact that Chopin’s waltzes are no longer dance music, but refined concert pieces for performance in salon or concert hall, emerges nowhere as-sharply as in the “Grande Valse”, Op. 42. The main theme banters with a delightful rhythmic shifting between the accompaniment in the typical ¾ time and the melody, which, in its turn, is heard in duple time. Robert Schumann called this waltz a “salon piece of the most noble type”; one which, in spite of all its brilliance and virtuosity, can still be mastered by advanced amateurs.