Chopin Frederic - Ballade in G minor Op 23 Piano Solo *Astute Music whilst others are expressions of

whilst others are expressions of places that he has visited and their mystical qualities

written in 1951

Transforming the violin part into a flute part is quite astounding and was handled so freely and ingeniously in a variety of aspects that we can only assume that the composer himself could dare to come up with the solutions in question

As the work first appeared as Boccherini's

Bourée (de Boismortier)

Chopin Frederic - Ballade in G minor Op 23 Piano Solo *Astute Music whilst others are expressions ofWhen Chopin gave his Opus 23 the title Ballade in the mid 1830s, he established the piano ballade as a new musical genre which was subsequently taken up by others, including Brahms, Liszt and Grieg. The idea of transforming a fictional, dramatic and mystical event into music particularly suggested itself to the Romantic Schumann. He was enthusiastic about this work: I have a new Ballade by Chopin. It seems to me to be one of his most brilliant (not