Polonaise-Fantaisie
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| Key/Time Signature: | A flat major, 3/4 |
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| Form: | Polonaise-Fantaisie |
| Date of composition: | 1846 |
| Opus Number: | 61 |
| Movements/Sections: | - |
| Dedication: | Madame A. Veyret |
Polonaise-Fantaisie in A♭ is a composition for piano by Frédéric Chopin, opus 61. It was dedicated to Mme A. Veyret, and published in 1846.
This work was slow to gain favour with musicians, due to its harmonic complexity and intricate form. Arthur Hedley was one of the first critics to speak in its favour, writing in 1947 that it 'works on the hearer's imagination with a power of suggestion equalled only by the F minor Fantasy or the fourth Ballade', though the well-known performers Arthur Rubinstein, Claudio Arrau and Vladimir Horowitz had been including it in their programmes some decades earlier.
It is intimately indebted to the polonaise for its metre, much of its rhythm, and some of its melodic character, but the fantaisie is the operative formal paradigm (Samson, 1988). Parallels with the Fantaisie op. 49 include the work's overall tonality, A flat, the key of its slower middle section, B, and the motive of the descending fourth.
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