Description

• Composer: Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
• Editor: Norbert Müllemann
• Fingering: Hans-Martin Theopold
• Instrumentation: Piano
• Work: Polonaise in F-sharp Minor (“Tragic”), Op. 44
• Binding:
• ISMN: 9790201811543
• Size: 9.3 x 12.2 inches
• Pages: 25
• Urtext / Critical Edition

Description

On August 23rd, 1841 Chopin wrote to the Viennese publisher Mechetti: “I currently have a manuscript available for you. It is a kind of fantasia in the form of a polonaise that I would call Polonaise”. Chopin’s uncertainty about the title is only too understandable. The work begins as a proud polonaise. Then a passage bursts in during which an octave a is relentlessly played more than thirty times. This almost modern sounding passage leads into a mazurka that seems to come from a different, enraptured world.