1880's Very Rare Victorian edition of Frederick CHOPIN 's POLONAISES for Pianoforte - Music scores

 

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Author : Frederick Chopin, Dr Theodore Kullak, Albert R. Parsons
Title : Frederick Chopin's Works. Instructive Edition with explanatory remarks and fingerings by Dr. Theodore Kullak. Author's Edition in English by Albert R. Parsons. Volume IV. POLONAISES for the Pianoforte.
Publisher : London, Weekes & Co, no date (circa 1880).
Language : Text in English
Size : 13 " X 11 "
Pages : 73 pages 
Binding : Very good attractive full Victorian decorated cloth binding (hinges weak, overall slightly worn and scuffed) under a protective removable mylar cover. 
Content : Very good content (bright. inner hinges cracked but still tight, foxing and staining throughout) 
Illustrations : Illustrated with full page music scores.

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

POLONAISES: Most of Frédéric Chopin's polonaises were written for solo piano. He wrote his first polonaise in 1817, when he was 7; his last was the Polonaise-Fantaisie of 1846, three years before his death. Among the best known polonaises are the "Military" Polonaise in A, Op. 40, No. 1, and the "Heroic" or "Drum" Polonaise in A♭, Op. 53.

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.