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Hand-written Chopin manuscript bought by Warsaw museum

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Paweł Kononczuk 01.03.2017 15:44
The Fryderyk Chopin Museum in Warsaw has bought a hand-written manuscript of a piano ballade by the great Polish composer.
The Chopin ballade score. Photo: PAP/Jakub KamińskiThe Chopin ballade score. Photo: PAP/Jakub Kamiński

The manuscript was purchased from a private collector at an auction in London in November. It was officially delivered to the museum’s authorities on Wednesday.

The partial manuscript for the Ballade in G minor Op. 23 is the only manuscript for a Chopin ballade in Poland.

“Chopin is one of the most important figures in our culture”, Poland’s Culture Minister Piotr Gliński said.

Artur Szklener, director of the Fryderyk Chopin Institute, said that such manuscripts are “invaluable treasures of culture and sources of knowledge about the composer and his work.”

The Ballade in G minor Op. 23 was composed by Chopin around 1835 in Paris.

Wednesday marked the final day of a week-long celebration of the 207th anniversary of Chopin’s birth.

(tf/pk)

Source: PAP

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