Chopin Frederic - Ballade in G minor Op 23 Piano Solo *Astute Music As the work first appeared

As the work first appeared as Boccherini's

Bourée (de Boismortier)

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

this brings the difficult task of evaluating the variants present in the different first editions

Chopin Frederic - Ballade in G minor Op 23 Piano Solo *Astute Music As the work first appearedWhen 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