Nocturnes and Polonaises
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The 20 nocturnes reproduced here include Opp. 9, 15, 27, 32, 37, 48, 55, 62, 72, and the posthumous Nocturne in C-sharp Minor. The 11 polonaises include Opp. 26, 40, 44, 53, 61,71, and the posthumous Polonaise in G-sharp Minor.
Serious pianists will want to have these authoritative texts of 31 of Chopin’s most popular and enduring works.
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Nocturnes and Polonaises - Frédéric Chopin
Nocturnes and Polonaises
Frédéric Chopin
Carl Mikuli
Copyright
Copyright © 1998 by Dover Publications, Inc.
All rights reserved.
Bibliographical Note
This Dover edition, first published in 1998, is a new compilation of works originally published in 1894 by G. Schirmer, New York, in separate volumes of Schirmer’s Library of Musical Classics under the group title Frédéric Chopin/Complete Works for the Pianoforte. The polonaises were originally published in Volume 29; the nocturnes, in Vol. 30. The posthumous Nocturne in C-sharp Minor is newly added.
Carl Mikuli’s full-length German Vorwort [Foreword] first appeared in Fr. Kistner’s original publication of the Mikuli edition, Leipzig, 1879. The edited translation that has been adapted for the present publication appeared in Book XI [Sonatas] of Schirmer’s Chopin series, 1895.
The Dover edition adds new headings as well as dates of composition based on primary sources. Popularized subtitles in the contents list are included as familiar references; they appeared neither in the composer’s manuscripts nor in early editions of the music.
We are indebted to the Herrick Memorial Library, Alfred University, Alfred, New York, for making the score of the Nocturnes available for this publication.
International Standard Book Number
9780486311869
Manufactured in the United States by Courier Corporation
24564016
www.doverpublications.com
Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
NOTES
FOREWORD
The Twenty Nocturnes
The Eleven Polonaises
Dover Piano and Keyboard Editions
NOTES
• Posthumous Nocturne in C-sharp Minor, p. 97, is newly added; it does not appear in Mikuli’s edition of Chopin’s works published by Kistner, Leipzig, in 1879.
• A Nocturne in C Minor was first published in 1938, in Poland, based on a newly-found, sketchy manuscript suggesting a very early date of composition. It has been omitted from the Dover edition.
• This edition omits the four early polonaises—in G minor, B-flat major, A-flat major and B-flat minor—composed in Chopin’s childhood and early adolescence, as well as a G-flat polonaise (1829?), considered spurious by some Chopin scholars.
As Chopin’s student and, later, his teaching assistant, Karol (Carl) Mikuli (1819—1897)—Polish pianist, composer, conductor and teacher—was in a privileged and advantageous position to take into account all that the master brought to his playing and teaching. His in-person account of Chopin’s approach to performance—reflected in Mikuli’s distinguished editorial contributions to this volume—is invaluable to all who would understand the principles that underlie this body of work.
Mikuli’s foreword (in German) was written in 1879 for his landmark edition of Chopin’s piano music, originally published by Fr. Kistner, Leipzig. Lamenting the innumerable errors found in earlier