Chopin waltz unearthed after nearly 200 years
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Javier C. Hernández, writing at the New York Times:
Deep in the vault of the Morgan Library & Museum in Manhattan on a late-spring day, the curator Robinson McClellan was sorting through a collection of cultural memorabilia. There were postcards signed by Picasso, a vintage photograph of a French actress and letters from Brahms and Tchaikovsky.
When McClellan came across Item No. 147, he froze[.]
Notes from Poland: “The find has been a sensation in Chopin’s homeland of Poland, where Julita Przybylska-Nowak, vice-rector of the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław, played the waltz for broadcaster TVN.”
Brian Kihoon has created a downloadable score.