Waltzes

Description

Chopin revolutionized the etude – but he ennobled the waltz. He spent much time on this genre throughout his life and created a wide spectrum of forms, from virtuosic showpieces – the Grandes Vales Brillantes – to deeply melancholic atmospheric pictures. All these works have one thing in common: one cannot and should not dance to them! Our volume contains all of the waltzes that were published during Chopin's lifetime, or posthumously, including popular masterpieces such as the so-called “Minute Waltz” (op. 64 no. 1). In cases where two authentic versions of the same waltz have been transmitted, we naturally give the Urtext of both versions.

Contents:

Waltz (two versions) b minor op. post. 69,2

Waltz (two versions) A flat major op. post. 69,1

Waltz (two versions) G flat major op. post. 70,1

Waltz A flat major op. 64,3

Waltz A flat major op. 42

Waltz A flat major op. 34,1

Waltz A flat major KK IVa,13

Waltz a minor op. 34,2

Waltz a minor KK IVb,11

Waltz c sharp minor op. 64,2

Waltz D flat major op. post. 70,3

Waltz D flat major op. 64,1 [Minute] D flat major op. 64,1

Waltz E major KK IVa,12

Waltz e minor KK IVa,15

Waltz F major op. 34,3

Waltz F minor, A flat major (two versions) op. post. 70,2

Waltz [Grande Valse brillante] E flat major op. 18

Waltz (Appendix) E flat major KK IVa,14

Waltz (Appendix) E flat major KK IVb,10