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Features 20 Nocturnes: Op. 9, 15, 27, 32, 37, 48, 55, 62, 72, and more. Also includes 11 Polonaises: Op. 26, 40, 44, 53, 61, 71, and posthumous Polonaise in G-sharp Minor. Mikuli Edition. Commentary.

nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; This book contains 98 works of the great Polish composer Frederic Chopin. It is the first of 3 volumes of the complete works of his and is comprised mainly of scans of pre 1923 sheet music by various music publishers containing original copyright references. Overall it's a warts and all (although we have cleaned up and digitally enhanced as much as possible) reproduction of some very old manuscripts so there are some minor printing imperfections owing to the age and quality of these original manuscripts. There are also some recent 2018 editions type-set and copyright by Ironpower Publishing. nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; We have endeavored to put together in three volumes the most complete collection of Chopin's sheet music available. Contained within this first volume are 4 Ballades, 27 Etudes, 21 Nocturnes, 27 Preludes, and 19 Waltzes which highlight the brilliance of Chopin. There is a detailed 25 page biography of the life and times of Frederic Chopin at the beginning. nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; The book is then divided into 5 sections each containing a specific category of Chopin's catalogue of music:- nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;· Ballades nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;· Etudes nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;· Nocturnes nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;· Preludes nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;· Waltzes nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Here's a list of all the 98 musical compositions included:- Ballade No. 1 in G. minor, Op. 23 Ballade No. 2, Op. 38 Ballade No. 3, Op. 47 Ballade No. 4, Op. 52 Etude in F minor No. 1 Etude in A-flat major No. 2 Etude in D-flat major No. 3 Etude in C major, Op. 10, No. 1 Etude in A minor, Op. 10, No. 2 Etude in C-sharp minor, Op. 10, No. 4 Etude in G-flat major, Op. 10, No. 5 Etude in E-flat minor, Op. 10, No. 6 Etude in C major, Op. 10, No. 7 Etude in F major, Op. 10, No. 8 Etude in F minor, Op. 10, No. 9 Etude in A-flat major, Op. 10, No. 10 Etude in E-flat major, Op. 10, No. 11 Etude in C minor, Op. 10, No. 12 Etude in A-flat major, Op. 25, No. 1 Etude in F minor, Op. 25, No. 2 Etude in F major, Op. 25, No. 3 Etude in A minor, Op. 25, No. 4 Etude in E minor, Op. 25, No. 5 Etude in G-sharp minor, Op. 25, No. 6 Etude in C-sharp minor, Op. 25, No. 7 Etude in D-flat major, Op. 25, No. 8 Etude in G-flat major, Op. 25, No. 9 Etude in B minor, Op. 25, No. 10 Etude in A minor, Op. 25, No. 11 Etude in C minor, Op. 25, No. 12 Nocturne No. 1 to No. 21 Prelude in A-flat major Prelude Op. 28, No. 1 to No. 24 Prelude Op. 45, No. 25 Prelude No. 27 Grande Valse brillante in E-flat major, Op. 18 Waltz in Vivace A-flat major, Op. 34, B 94 No. 1 Waltz in Lento A minor, Op. 34, B64 No. 2 Waltz in Vivace F major, Op. 34, B118 No. 3 Waltz in A-flat major, Op. 42, B131 Waltz in D-flat major, Op. 64, B164 No. 1 Waltz in C-sharp minor, Op. 64, B164 No. 2 Waltz in A-flat major, Op. 64, B164 No. 3 Waltz in A-flat major, Op. 69, B95 No. 1 Waltz in B minor, Op. 69, B35 No. 2 Waltz in G-flat major, Op. 70, B92 No. 1 Waltz in F minor, Op. 70, B138 No. 2 Waltz in D-flat major, Op. 70, B40 No. 3 Waltz in E minor (Posthumous) Waltz in E major (Posthumous) Waltz in A-flat major, B21 Waltz in E-flat major, B46 Waltz in E-flat major, B133 Waltz in A minor, B150 nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; We hope you enjoy playing the music of this musical genius as much as we enjoyed compiling it into this complete collection of works.

“An exceptionally fine book: erudite, digressive, urbane and deeply moving.” —Wall Street Journal Chopin’s Piano traces the history of Frédéric Chopin’s twenty-four Preludes through the instruments on which they were played, the pianists who interpreted them, and the traditions they came to represent. Yet it begins and ends with Chopin’s Mallorquin pianino, which the great keyboard player Wanda Landowska rescued from an abandoned monastery at Valldemossa in 1913—and which assumed an astonishing cultural potency during the Second World War as it became, for the Nazis, a symbol of the man and music they were determined to appropriate as their own. In scintillating prose, and with an eye for exquisite detail, Paul Kildea beautifully interweaves these narratives, which comprise a journey through musical Romanticism—one that illuminates how art is transmitted, interpreted, and appropriated over the ages.