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Chopin - Ballade No.2 in F major Op.38 (Goerner)

Chopin Ballade No.2 in F major Op.38 Nelson Goerner ‘A new Chopin Ballade has appeared’, noted Robert Schumann in his diary in October 1840. ‘It is dedicated to me’, he continued. ‘It gives me greater joy than if I’d received an order from some ruler’. He immediately reviewed it in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, including in his account a mention of Chopin’s stay in Leipzig four years previously. ‘I recollect very well that when Chopin played the ballade here, it ended in F major; now it closes in A minor.’ Besides this, ‘its impassioned episodes seem to have been inserted afterwards. Here we have a problem. The account is too detailed to surmise that Schumann’s memory was faulty. There is much to suggest the existence of some earlier version of this work – a version that Chopin presented to Schumann and his inner circle during the second of their memorable encounters. Moreover, we know for certain that Chopin was working on the F major Ballade in Majorca. In January 1839, after a Pleyel piano had arrived from Paris, he informed Julian Fontana: ‘You’ll soon receive the Preludes and the Ballade’. And a couple of days later, when sending the manuscript of the Preludes: ‘In a couple of weeks, you’ll receive the Ballade, Polonaises [in A flat major and C minor] and Scherzo’. So the ultimate shape of the Ballade was conceived in Majorca. It was there, in the atmosphere of an abandoned monastery, surrounded by wondrous, wild nature, that the idea of contrasting the music of a soft and tuneful siciliana with the music of a demonic presto con fuoco – the music of those ‘impassioned episodes’, as Schumann called them – must have arisen. Read it all on: https://chopin.nifc.pl/en/chopin/komp... The big contrast between the very calm and charming melody, and the explosing descending arpeggio with agony and also angry makes this ballade one of Chopin's best works, it's chopin almost presenting to us his two sides, it's almost like he's showing his soul to us... Sheet: https://imslp.org/wiki/Ballade_No.2%2...)