By Solomon Cutner

Waltz Op. posth. in E minor sheet music

By Leonard Pennario

Waltz Op. posth. 70 No. 3 in D flat major sheet music

By Arthur Rubinstein

Waltz Op. posth. 70 No. 2 in F minor sheet music

By Arthur Rubinstein

Waltz Op. posth. 70 No. 1 in G flat major sheet music

By Tzvi Erez

Waltz Op. 69 No. 2 in B minor sheet music

The waltz was originally written as a farewell piece to Marie Wodzińska, to whom Chopin was once engaged. This autographed copy, first presented in September 1835, is now in the National Library in Warsaw, Poland. Another autographed version of the piece can be found at the Paris Conservatoire, but is considered to be a less refined version. A third is presented as the posthumous edition of Jules Fontana, but has not been substantiated by any known autograph.

The waltz is in A flat major, with a time signature of 3/4. The tempo is marked at “Tempo di Valse,” or a waltz tempo. The beginning theme is melancholic and nostalgic, and reaches a small high point with a fast flourish. The second part is marked “sempre delicatissimo,” or “con anima” in other versions. It is somewhat more cheerful that the previous theme, but soon give way to the same first theme. After a second rendition of the first theme is a third theme, the most playful theme. It leads to another theme with a series of ascending double-stops. This fourth theme is marked “poco a poco crescendo,” with other editions adding “ed appassionato.” This leads back to the third, playful theme, and returns back to the beginning with a Da Capo al Fine.

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By Arthur Rubinstein

Waltz Op. 69 No. 1 in A flat major sheet music

Waltz Op. 64 No. 3 in A flat major sheet music

• Theme A tempo giusto chordal with a walking pace feel;
• Theme B più mosso (faster) – theme stated in running eighth notes, with all harmony in the left hand.
• Theme C più lento (slower) – a sostenuto in the tonic major (D-flat major, enharmonic equivalent to C-sharp major). Besides the slower general pace, the melody is in quarter notes except for a few flourishes in eighth notes, giving this section the quality of an interlude before the dramatic restatement of Theme B

The overall layout of the piece is A B C B A B. The piece ends with a fade-out rather than the strident chords of his first Grande Valse Brillante (Op 18).

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By Evgeny Kissin

By Arthur Rubinstein

Waltz Op. 64 No. 2 in C sharp minor sheet music

The piece is given the tempo marking “Molto vivace”. He wrote it in 1847 and published it in Leipzig the same year, as the first of the opus 64 Trois Valses, dedicating it to “To Mme. la Comtesse Delphine Potocka”. Since the second waltz is in the key of C-sharp minor, the “Minute” waltz contrasts by being in the enharmonic parallel major key (D-flat major).

Despite its nickname, a typical performance of the work will last between one and a half and two and a half minutes; this is because Chopin’s publisher, who coined the nickname, intended the “minute” to mean “small”. The waltz, though considered by many to be brilliant, is not grand or long. It is more playful than many of the other waltzes. Camille Bourniquel, one of Chopin’s biographers, reminds the reader that Chopin, with this waltz, was trying to depict a dog chasing its tail; indeed, Chopin originally named the piece “Petit chien” (Little Dog).

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By Cyprien Katsaris

By Arthur Rubinstein

Waltz Op. 64 No. in D-flat major “Minute Waltz” sheet music

By Marek Drewnowski

By Arthur Rubinstein

Waltz Op. 42 in A flat major sheet music

By Arthur Rubinstein

Grande Waltz brillante Op. 34 No. 3 in F major sheet music

By Arthur Rubinstein

Grande Waltz brillante Op. 34 No. 2 in A minor sheet music

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By Evgeny Kissin

By Julio Garci­a Casas

By Arthur Rubinstein

By Lang Lang

Waltz brillante Op. 34 No. 1 in A-flat major sheet music

Most of the Chopin’s waltz works are remarkably different from Viennese waltzs.

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By Valentina Igoshina

By Marek Drewnowski

Grande Waltz brillante Op. 18 in E flat major sheet music