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Chopin, Frédéric: Grande Valse in A flat major op. 42

sheet music

Setting: Piano
Length: 12 pages
Weight: 0.071 kg
Publisher: G. Henle Verlag
Item number: HN1322
Other reference: HN 1322
ISMN: 9790201813226
The fact that Chopin’s waltzes are no longer dance music, but refined concert pieces for performance in salon or concert hall, emerges nowhere as sharply as in the ''Grande Valse'' op. 42. The main theme banters with a delightful rhythmic shifting between the accompaniment in the typical 3 time and the melody, which, in its turn, is heard in duple time. Robert Schumann called this waltz a ''salon piece of the most noble type'', one which, in spite of all its brilliance and virtuosity, can still
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