Chopin Waltz Collection

Author: Ignaz Friedman
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Publish Date: 2002-06-01
Features: This book collects the Mazurkas of the famous pianist and composer Chopin. It is comprehensive and can be used for practice by a wide range of music workers and enthusiasts. Chopin was Poland's greatest composer, a poet with a womanly gentleness and elegance who shouted for freedom and human rights, and the most noble and elegant interpreter of desire and emotion to date. Regarding the content of this book, it is well-known that the greatest differences between various versions lie in the selection of pieces. I believe these differences may have originated from Chopin's frequent revisions of the manuscripts during proofreading, as he did not mark the positions of the changes in the manuscripts after making them. It is also possible that they occurred during the copying of the manuscripts, or that Chopin made different modifications and improvements when teaching different students. Therefore, these differences, as "original sources," hidden behind self-concealment, were passed down successively by Chopin's students—then by his students' students—and have no authoritative version to this day.