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Chopin, Frédéric: Grande Valse brillante in E flat major op. 18

sheet music

Setting: Piano
Length: 12 pages
Weight: 0.072 kg
Publisher: G. Henle Verlag
Item number: HN1321
Other reference: HN 1321
ISMN: 9790201813219
Chopin’s waltzes were ╩ contrary to, say, those by Schubert ╩ no longer conceived for dancing or for the ballroom. These pieces assumed the form and function of idealized concert waltzes, which Chopin enjoyed performing in the elegant and exclusive art-loving salons of Paris. A particularly eloquent example is the ''Grande Valse brillante'' op. 18 which, with its multiplicity of charming melodic ideas and moods ╩ now gently rocking, now overwhelming, now again triumphantly jubilant ╩ became one
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