Chopin revolutionized the etude - but he ennobled the waltz. He spent much time on this genre throughout his life and created a wide spectrum of forms, from virtuosic showpieces - the Grandes Vales Brillantes - to deeply melancholic atmospheric pictures. All these works have one thing in common: one cannot and should not dance to them! Our volume contains all of the waltzes that were published during Chopin's lifetime, or posthumously, including popular masterpieces such as the so-called Minute Waltz (op. 64 no. 1). In cases where two authentic versions of the same waltz have been transmitted, we naturally give the Urtext of both versions.
Chopin: Waltz (two versions) b minor op. post. 69,2 Chopin: Waltz a minor op. 34,2 Chopin: Waltz F minor, A flat major (two versions) op. post. 70,2 Chopin: Waltz c sharp minor op. 64,2 Chopin: Waltz (two versions) A flat major op. post. 69,1 Chopin: Waltz D flat major op. 64,1 [Minute] D flat major op. 64,1 Chopin: Waltz (two versions) G flat major op. post. 70,1 Chopin: Waltz A flat major op. 42 Chopin: Waltz A flat major op. 34,1 Chopin: Waltz [Grande Valse brillante] E flat major op. 18 Chopin: Waltz A flat major op. 64,3 Chopin: Appendix: Waltz E flat major KK IVa,14 Chopin: Waltz D flat major op. post. 70,3 Chopin: Waltz A flat major KK IVa,13 Chopin: Waltz E major KK IVa,12 Chopin: Waltz e minor KK IVa,15 Chopin: Waltz a minor KK IVb,11 Chopin: Appendix: Waltz E flat major KK IVb,10 Chopin: Waltz F major op. 34,3