Chopin, Frédéric. (1810–1849)

Grande Valse Brilliante pour le Piano…. Opera 18.

Paris: Maurice Schlesinger. [1834]. First edition, first issue. 9 pp. Engraved folio. [PN] 1599. Upper right corner of first 2 leaves chipped, otherwise an exceptional copy, remarkably clean throughout and contained in a custom pale blue cloth box. Fuld p. 257-8; Platzmann p. 85.


Perhaps the most famous of all Chopin waltzes, the waltz in E flat major was composed during Chopin's last months in Warsaw in 1830. 1828 - 1832 were the main years of Chopin's concert giving and the waltz was originally written for performance by the composer. (6591)
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