1878 Very Rare early edition of Frederick CHOPIN 's SONATAS - Opus 35 & Opus 58

 

Author : Frederick Chopin.
Title : Sonaten für das Pianoforte von F. Chopin. Op.35 & Op.58.
Publisher : Leipzig : Breitkopf & Härtel, no date ( circa 1878).
Language : Text in German.
Size : 11 " X 7 "
Pages : 53 pages 
Binding : Good attractive full Victorian decorated cloth binding (light color decoloration but still attractive, overall slightly worn and scuffed) under a protective removable mylar cover. 
Content : Very good content (bright. last inner hinges partly cracked but still tight, foxing and staining mostly on upper part of first and last pages - as shown, ink stamps of music scores antique sellers on title page). 
Illustrations : Illustrated with full page music scores in very good condition.

The book : Very rare and attractive edition of Chopin's Sonatas. A rare find in any condition!

SONATAS: Opus 35 & Opus 58. 

The author: Frédéric François Chopin (born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin, 1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era who wrote primarily for the solo piano. He gained and has maintained renown worldwide as a leading musician of his era, whose "poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation." Chopin was born in what was then the Duchy of Warsaw and grew up in Warsaw, which in 1815 became part of Congress Poland. A child prodigy, he completed his musical education and composed his earlier works in Warsaw before leaving Poland at the age of 20, less than a month before the outbreak of the November 1830 Uprising.