Chopin: Polonaise in F-sharp Minor, Op. 44
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- Composer: Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
- Editor: Norbert Müllemann
- Fingering: Hans-Martin Theopold
- Instrumentation: Piano
- Work: Polonaise in F-sharp Minor ("Tragic"), Op. 44
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- 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.