@@GoodMorning-b2w Exactly. The ironic thing is I didn't find it that funny a year ago but I've seen some pretty good ones lately that have changed that
@@catarinalunar Or possibly it's more of a scavenger hunt thing, where we've got the new Classical and Romantic pieces checked off the list, and now we're going to get a Baroque and 20th-century piece, and maybe if we're lucky a new Renaissance motet or something?
Imagine how much more music/art we could've found if the world wars didn't happen. Billions upon billions of dollars of priceless art was lost to never be seen/heard again.
Obviously leaving WW2 aside. But, if not for the outbreak of the First World War, the empires which occupied Polish lands wouldn't have fallen. Austro-Hungary, Russian Empire, German Empire... all ceased to exist by the end of WW1. Had Chopin not died prematurely he might have seen the winds of change even by 1915, who knows.
OR if Chopin didn't order all the other unpublished and/or unfinished compositions destroyed upon his death in 1849. All of what we know of the lost 34 waltzes are the 5 bars (per waltz) handwritten by his sister, and the Fantasie-Impromptu would have been lost to history if not for Julian Fontana going against Chopin's last wishes and having it published after his death...
So, today, someone accidentally found a lost Mayan city, and a few hours later new old Chopin drops, what's next, Atlantis is discovered in a few hours?!
That "accidentally" thing in the title of that news headline was weird tho, you don't just go to the grocery store to buy milk and then "accidentally" buy milk, the archeologists worked hard to look for signs of a civilization
The piece is a little treasure. I can see why Chopin never thought it was particularly important though - he was so gifted that music simply flowed from his mind and fingers like an endless stream and he would discard little trinkets and sketches like this all the time - believing they're unimportant. No music touches the heart as much as his does, there really is nothing like it.
Another thing is that Chopin really has an issue with his works being "good enough". There are a lot of works by Chopin destroyed upon Chopin's last wishes because he thought they are not good enough. Chopin's personal opinion on the Fantasie-Impromptu Op.66 is it being "terrible" and ordered Julian Fontana (the recipient of the autograph piece) to have it destroyed upon his death...
Chopin was not only a master of creating melodies --- and harmonies -- that were quite unheard of for the time, but for the evolution of piano technique as well.
So here’s a crazy story: I live in New York and last year I had a teacher named Robin (foreshadowing) AND HE DISCOVERED THIS PIECE. Turns out Robin doesn’t play piano and I got the chance to sight read the piece BEFORE lang lang. I WAS THE FIRST PERSON TO PLAY A CHOPIN PIECE!!!!! (well after robin and Chopin himself of course)
After Scott Joplin, Chopin is my favorite compuser. It is amazing that we are in 2024 and receiveing New material from Chopin and Mozart!! Cant wait to hear vinheteiro playing it
@@PuddinLord Chopin considered all of his works to be songs without words. Nearly melody he wrote was meant to be played in the sammer manner that Opera/Lieder singers would sing, the only difference would be the medium used to sing.
This fantastic discovery has Chopin's brilliance and characteristic in few bars but this is not entire work by Fryderyk Chopin's for many reasons.It is rather kind of theme, idea or Chopin's pedagogical homework for a student, amator pianist .There are sforzandos and fortissimos , detailed fingering all in space of few bars .It feels like kind of homework for Chopin's pupil with Chopin's own few bars . The manuscript's color of the paper and ink shows characteristics of Chopin's compositions from 1830-1835 so from the time when 20-25 years old Fryderyk Chopin was seeking refuge far away from home (courtesy to Russian czar) alone in Paris , missing his family, Warsaw and Poland, looking for students and just starting to establish himself in city of lights where as Chopin's wrote to his parents pianists were on every corner . Title and name of Fryderyk Chopin on this manuscript is not written by Fryderyk Chopin's hand.If it would be his gift to someone he would probably write something like dedication and signed it. Nerveless this wonderful discovery of Chopin's few magnificent bars in New York City 190 years after its birth calls for celebration!
Exciting and similar story to the Coltrane quartet featuring Eric Dolphy record that was just found in a New York library which also features a few waltzes… very neat !
Having listened to the whole thing, it's beautiful but it sounds unfinished. Would've loved to hear what Chopin had in mind for the rest of the piece if he decided to continue with it
It truly sounds typical of Chopin but how the hell would they find such a piece in 2024 ? Nothings been said about where they found this partition so I got my doubts whether it’s really from Chopin and not some guy who managed to play like Chopin creating a new piece or even used AI to make it… Chopin is to me the greatest pianist of all time, boy do I rage against God for taking him away so early and make him suffer his whole life with disease. To know he was half the man because of his condition he would have been able to create more marvels for us to enjoy if he was healthy and lived longer. And anyways, praise the eternal music of Frederic Chopin, wish he was still amongst us, I love his music that much
A gift!!? Like Presto Con Legerezza gifted to Edward Wolff (and found in a US Library!!!) Could be!! Stylistically, 1830 -35 looks good. What is the forensic analysis of paper, ink, handwriting etc???
Here you go bbc when you get a real proper expert that knows what they are talking about and captivate you with their enthusiasm and knowledge , an almost 5mn video felt like a minute unlike the moronic "experts" you have in the ukrainian and middle eatern conflicts......
Next time something like this happens, please tell *how* it happened, *where* the piece was. Was the curator just passing the pages of a bound volume containing miscellaneous prints when a manuscript score caught his attention? Was it in an archive box of loose papers? Was the curator seeking for something else, was he cataloguing the material? Had it been in custody for a long time, or had just arrived? Who owned it originally? Any tests made to the paper, ink, writing, to certify its authenticity? So many unanswered questions...
@@malgorzataabramowska806 Which is when he composed all his mature works. You don't have to tell me where he was born. His music he wrote almost all while living in France.
