CHAPTER VIII.
THE WORKS OF CHOPIN'S FIRST PERIOD.
The only works of Chopin we have as yet discussed are--if we leave out of account the compositions which the master neither published himself nor wished to be published by anybody else--the "Premier Rondeau," Op.
1, the "Rondeau a la Mazur," Op.

5, and "Variations sur un air allemand" (see Chapter III).

We must retrace our steps as far back as 1827, and briefly survey the composer's achievements up to the spring of 1829, when a new element enters into his life and influences his artistic work.

It will be best to begin with a chronological enumeration of those of Chopin's compositions of the time indicated that have come down to us.

In 1827 came into existence or were finished: a Mazurka (Op.