Chopin A La Polacca!
Chopin composed about 200 works. 110 were dances such as mazurkas, waltzes and polonaises. At the age of seven, he composed his first polonaise in B-flat major, and throughout his career he made the form exclusively his own, overshadowing the early examples by Oginski and Kurpinski. Chopin’s mature polonaises form a heroic national epic. In these works, Chopin’s patriotism envisions […]