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Hello again Birba, i can't claim to be a Chopin expert, but i am one of the biggest enthusiastics out there for his music, and i researched it for years, and i specially like the little snippets of information other people don't read most of the time. But i play the piano for over 21 years now, and i can play almost all of Chopin's music, so i assume it gave me a bit of perspective.  And yeah, the German publisher did mean it in the Bach's reference of the dance Minuet, which is really interesting.  There is another urban legend about this piece, which it was conceived when Chopin was at Nohant with Sand, and he saw her dog chase his own tail, and as the legend says, Sand asked him if you he can convey this scene musically, so Chopin sat at the piano and started improvising, and from these improvisations, the Minute waltz was conceived.