The Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 was composed in 1830, when Chopin was twenty years old, and was first performed on 11 October of that year, at the Teatr Narodowy (the National Theatre) in Warsaw, Poland, with the composer as soloist, during one of his “farewell” concerts before leaving Poland. The first of Chopin's two piano concertos to be published, it was therefore given the designation of Piano Concerto “No. 1” at the time of publication, even though it was actually written immediately after the premiere of what was later published as Piano Concerto No. 2.
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