Description

• Composer: Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
• Editor: Ewald Zimmermann (1910-1988)
• Fingering: Hans-Martin Theopold
• Instrumentation: Piano
• Work: Waltz in A Minor, Op. 34, No. 2
• Binding:
• ISMN: 9790201806594
• Size: 9.3 x 12.2 inches
• Pages: 7
• Urtext / Critical Edition

Description

Chopin applied himself the waltz genre throughout his life, and created a broad spectrum of musical possibilities from profoundly melancholic and atmospheric mood-pieces to showpieces of extraordinary virtuosity. Its title of Grande Valse brillante notwithstanding, this second waltz from opus 34 has a dreamy character within a calm Lento tempo, causing it to function to some extent as a slow movement between the two triumphant vivace movements that surround it in opus 34. While a complete autograph of this work no longer survives, several copies of the first edition issued by Schlesinger in 1838 have Chopin’s proof corrections; we have of course taken these into account in our Urtext edition.