The power of Chopin's music. If he had just written this short piece and nothing else I reckon he still would be remembered. I just wish there was a violin performance of it on RUclips. I found for op. 69 no. 2 and it's beautiful. Thanks Cole.
Wonderful, informative introduction and background to this beautiful piece of music! Thank god, J. Fontana did not follow F. Chopin's wishes to destroy these 3 manuscripts! Love all the variants in the last section. Exquisite performance, as always!
I have always thought of this as being a Waltz in Ab because it ends there and Ab seems to predominate over F minor for most of it, at least to my ears, but whenever I see this waltz as "Waltz in x" it's always as Waltz in F minor, which doesn't really make sense to me. Like sure maybe the first 4 bars of the main theme are F minorish, but Ab major is the main key of emphasis and is where it ends. I know pieces don't always end in the same key that they start in, but still, I'd expect a "Waltz in F minor" to be more clearly in a minor key than this waltz.
Studying this now. Was never able to find other editions in the public domain.
The power of Chopin's music. If he had just written this short piece and nothing else I reckon he still would be remembered. I just wish there was a violin performance of it on RUclips. I found for op. 69 no. 2 and it's beautiful. Thanks Cole.
Ah, Chopin my favourite composer. Beautiful played as would Chopin himself.
Wonderful, informative introduction and background to this beautiful piece of music! Thank god, J. Fontana did not follow F. Chopin's wishes to destroy these 3 manuscripts! Love all the variants in the last section. Exquisite performance, as always!
Wonderful!! I love the explanation too!!!
That was wonderful, thank you for sharing!
Magnific
What an interpretation! You're talented! to say the least.
Wonderful!!
beautiful
I have always thought of this as being a Waltz in Ab because it ends there and Ab seems to predominate over F minor for most of it, at least to my ears, but whenever I see this waltz as "Waltz in x" it's always as Waltz in F minor, which doesn't really make sense to me. Like sure maybe the first 4 bars of the main theme are F minorish, but Ab major is the main key of emphasis and is where it ends. I know pieces don't always end in the same key that they start in, but still, I'd expect a "Waltz in F minor" to be more clearly in a minor key than this waltz.
That’s odd! I agree with you, it should be Waltz in A-flat for sure.
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