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Chopin, Frédéric: Polonaise in f sharp minor op. 44

sheet music

Setting: Piano
Period: Romantic
Length: 32 pages
Weight: 0.142 kg
Published: May 1, 2017
Publisher: G. Henle Verlag
Item number: HN1154
Other reference: HN 1154
ISMN: 9790201811543
On 23 August 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, enrap
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