Frédéric Chopin

Study edition with commentary in English by Alfred Cortot.

Fifty-one mazurkas. Kistner (Mikuli) edition.

Chopin's piano works, renowned for their technical brilliance, also invariably project the composer's mercurial moods. Their complex emotional content often lies close to the surface: a sparkling and...

Chopin's four ballades, four impromptus and three sonatas are among the composer's most mature works, rivalled only by his scherzos and polonaises for extended thematic development and formal structur...

Chopin was the only great composer who wrote almost entirely for the piano, and his works are of such a uniformly high quality that they are all absolutely essential in the repertoire of any aspiring...

Serious pianists will want to have these authoritative texts of 31 of Chopin's most popular and enduring works. Edited by Carl Mikuli

Chopin's special gift was his remarkable ability to transform conventional musical forms into unique and memorable works of art for solo piano. Some are as compact as his fifteen waltzes; some as exte...