Chopin - Polonaise in F sharp minor op.44 for piano

Polonaise f sharp minor op. 44 by Frédéric Chopin for piano.

Editor : Norbert Müllemann.
Fingering : Hans-Martin Theopold

Level of difficulty (Piano): difficult (Level 7)

On 23 August 1841 Chopin wrote to the Viennese publisher Mechetti: “I currently have a manuscript available for you. It is a kind of fantasia in the form of a polonaise that I would call Polonaise”. Chopin’s uncertainty about the title is only too understandable. The work begins as a proud polonaise. Then a passage bursts in during which an octave a is relentlessly played more than thirty times. This almost modern sounding passage leads into a mazurka that seems to come from a different, enraptured world. We are now publishing this “kind of fantasia”, previously only available in this edition of all the polonaises (HN 217), in a revised single edition.