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Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician

CHAPTER III
20/27

In No.

2 we meet already with harmonic piquancies which charmed musicians and lovers of music so much in the later mazurkas.

Critics and students will not overlook the octaves between, treble and bass in the second bar of part two in No.
1.

A.Polonaise in B flat minor, superscribed "Farewell to William Kolberg," of the year 1826, has not less naturalness and grace than the Polonaise of 1822, but in addition to these qualities, it has also at least one thought (part 1) which contains something of the sweet ring of Chopinian melancholy.

The trio of the Polonaise is headed by the words: "Au revoir! after an aria from 'Gazza ladra'." Two foot-notes accompany this composition in the Breitkopf and Hartel edition (No.


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