Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 2 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 526 pages of information about Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 2.

Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 2 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 526 pages of information about Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 2.
             taken from some other of his works,
             but there is also a great deal which
             it is impossible to imagine to have
             come at any time from his pen—­the
             very opening bars may be instanced.

Polonaise [B flat minor (1826)].—­    Gebethner &
Vol.  I., pp. 52-53.                    Wolff.

Valse [E major (1829)].—­ Vol.  I., Gebethner &
pp. 112, 122.  Wolff. 
W. Chaberski.

Souvenir de Paganini [A major].  This piece, which I do not know, is mentioned in the list of the master’s works given by Karasowski in the Polish edition of his life of Chopin.  It was published in the supplement of the Warsaw Echo Muzyczne, where also the two preceding pieces first appeared.
About a Mazurka in F sharp major, published under Chopin’s name by J. P. Gotthard, of Vienna, see Vol.  II., p. 237; and about Deux Valses melancoliques (F minor and B minor) ecrites sur l’Album de Mme. la Comtesse P. 1844, see Vol.  II., p. 251.
La Reine des Songes, which appeared in the Paris Journal de Musique, No. 8, 1876, is No. 1 of the Seventeen Polish Songs (transposed to B flat major) with French words by George Sand, beginning: 
“Quand la lune se leve
Dans un pale rayon
Elle vient comme un reve,
Comme une vision.”

Besides this song, the letter-press, taken from George Sand’s Histoire de ma Vie, is accompanied by two instrumental pieces, extracts from the last movement of the E minor Concerto and the Bolero, the latter being called Chanson de Zingara.
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