{"product_id":"4922-chopin-frederic-scherzo-pour-piano-dedie-a-mademoiselle-adele-de-furstenstein-opera-31-inscribed","title":"Chopin, Frédéric. (1810–1849) Scherzo pour piano dédié à Mademoiselle Adèle de Furstenstein, opéra 31. INSCRIBED","description":"\u003cp\u003eFolio, 19 pp. [PN] 2494. First edition of Chopin's Scherzo no. 2 in B-flat major, a work which, like so much of his extraordinary music, permanently resides in the consciousness of even the most unmusical of us. Schumann compared its tempestuous strains to a Byronic poem, \"so overflowing with tenderness, boldness, love and contempt.\" According to Wilhelm von Lenz, a pupil of Chopin, the composer described the famous sotto voce opening as a question to which the booming second phrase is answer: \"For Chopin it was never questioning enough, never soft enough, never vaulted enough. It must be a charnel-house.\" Huneker exults, \"What masterly writing, and it lies in the very heart of the piano! A hundred generations may not improve on these pages.” The present example is a precious object, inscribed by Chopin on the title-page, “à Mlle C. Porte. Chopin”. Mercié-Porte was a professeur at the Conservatoire de Paris. Light stain at upper left corner of title-page, otherwise in very fine condition. Housed in a custom archival folder with burgundy marbled-paper covered boards and crimson title plate on spine. Chopin presentations are of the utmost rarity: he would die in 1849 at the age of 39. Platzmann 118.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093240631455,"sku":"4922","price":45000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Chopin_Signed_Scherzo_1.jpg?v=1722186797","url":"https:\/\/www.schubertiademusic.com\/products\/4922-chopin-frederic-scherzo-pour-piano-dedie-a-mademoiselle-adele-de-furstenstein-opera-31-inscribed","provider":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}