:marseydetective!: Lost Chopin waltz unearthed nearly 200 years after composer's death :marseyjamming: :marseyjam:

A curator at a museum in New York City has discovered a previously unknown waltz written by Frédéric Chopin, the first time that a new piece of work by the Polish composer has been found in nearly 100 years.

The waltz, written on a small manuscript measuring about 4 inches by 5 inches, was first discovered by curator Robinson McClellan in 2019, who then sought outside expert help, according to a statement from the Morgan Library & Museum on Monday.

"He found it peculiar that he could not think of any waltzes by Chopin that matched the measures on the page," reads the statement.

"Chopin famously wrote in 'small forms,' but this work, lasting about one minute, is shorter than any other waltz by him," adds the statement.

"It is nevertheless a complete piece, showing the kind of 'tightness' that we expect from a finished work by the composer."

McClellan asked Chopin expert Jeffrey Kallberg, associate dean for arts and letters at the University of Pennsylvania, to help authenticate the waltz. "Extensive research points to the strong likelihood that the piece is by Chopin," according to the statement.

This research included analysis by paper conservators who found that the paper and ink match those that Chopin normally used. This dated the manuscript to the 1830s, a museum spokeswoman told CNN Tuesday.

"The penmanship matches other examples of Chopin's handwriting," said the spokeswoman. "The score contains fingerings and dynamic markings, suggesting that Chopin thought the piece might be performed someday."

The Morgan Library & Museum believes that the fact that the manuscript is so small could mean that it was meant to be a gift that the recipient would have kept in an autograph album.

Chopin was known to sign manuscripts that were gifts, but this one is unsigned, which the museum says suggests that he ultimately decided against giving it away.

"This newly discovered waltz expands our understanding of Chopin as a composer and opens new questions for scholars to consider regarding when he wrote it and for whom it was intended," said McClellan in the statement.

"To hear this work for the first time will be an exciting moment for everyone in the world of classical piano."

The museum spokeswoman said that the work "offers a look into Chopin's creative process," particularly given its short length and "some interesting dynamic markings."

"We can see Chopin trying things that would become hallmarks of his style," she added, highlighting the fact that the manuscript would have been written when Chopin was in his early 20s.

The discovery of an unknown piece of work by Chopin has not happened since the late 1930s, according to the museum.

"Our extensive music collection is defined by handwritten examples of the creative process and it is thrilling to have uncovered a new and unknown work by such a renowned composer," said Colin B. Bailey, museum director, in the statement.

The Polish composer was born in 1810 and was best known for solo piano pieces.

Chopin died in Paris, France, at the age of just 39. He's one of Poland's most famous sons, and his name adorns the airport serving the capital Warsaw, as well as parks, streets, benches and buildings.

His works and image are ubiquitous across the central European country, and his residences bear unmissable plaques. Busts and statues of his likeness are dotted across several major cities.

Even his heart, preserved in alcohol after his death in 1849 is sealed into a wall of Warsaw's Holy Cross Church.

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@Strachmistrz have you visited this Church? :marseyneat:

But recent suggestions about Chopin's private life collided awkwardly with Poland's staunchly conservative traditions – and caused some to question whether the story of Chopin that Poles are told from a young age is true.

According to a Swiss radio documentary released in 2020, the composer had relationships with men, and those relationships were left out of history by successive historians and biographers; a potentially thorny charge in one of Europe's worst countries for LGBTQ rights.

!Classics what's your favorite waltz? :pepeear:

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Through my life I was in Warsaw for like 10 minutes in total. So, no, I wasn't in that church.

Also, they are trying to make Szopen gay now? ok.

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they are trying to make Szopen gay now

I'm assuming they're basing it on the letters he supposedly exchanged with Tytus that were a bit intimate but that's a pretty weak evidence especially considering he was married to a woman.

And I'm not a historian studied in the matter either just citing tidbits I saw here and there , neither have I seen the letters and care enough to look them up.

No one should the weird obsession of historian nowadays who fricked who in the butt is r-slurred focus on what they achieved not where they sticked their lil guy

What's more credible is that according to his wife their relationship was sexless though.

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I'm not saying it's impossible.

I'm just extremly skeptical with such revelations, especially in cases like this where it reads more like it's about owning the chuds than the person in question or actual history.

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That's the weird obsession the historians have. You can have a historical guy who had 200 wifes and 500 sexfriends and 1 husband and you will have historians argue how he was gay and it was so important to his life or whatever

I think the most famous example of that is that one greek hero I think Achilles that was known to be a s*x machine who fricked men women and children and ledditors will argue that he was purely gay LGBT activist

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You're the only observant Kurwa we have right? I assume @BushWasRight is diaspora(?).

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:idontknow: I don't know much about other !KURWA members.

I just assume they are Polish, but even that's in question for a few of them.

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>kurwa: whore

!macacos the polish ping means puta lmao

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It's actually a very flexible word with high cultural impact. :marseyindignant:

Narrowing it to a single meaning is very reductive.

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So it's like "porra"

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I'm polish thank you very much

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You and Maggotz (free_palestine) are two people I would never doubt when it comes to that.

I have talked to TokenPolack in Polish, and he did not seem suspicious. SpookyFartMan69 (dead?) knew enough about Poland to be Polish, but not sure if first generation.

I did not expect BushWasRight to be Polish until he joined the group.

Qar and grizzly were referred to be Polish by others or themselves enough that I believe it, even though I don't think I ever saw any concrete proof.

The rest I do not know at all.

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Spookyfartman and Bushwasright are foreigners with Polish ancestry, burger and Canadian I'm pretty sure

Bush is 1st generation fartman might have moved as kid idk is it

Grizzly will always be polish in my heart and TokenPolack is definitely polish with how much niche details about our internal nonsense - political or not -he knows

No idea about Qar

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My opsec is good then

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I would be very happy to dox myself on the trans cat forum :marseysmirk2:

Also idk if this is common but I was like 10 before I realized Szopen and Chopin were the same guy (the French "language" should be destroyed)

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I would be very happy to dox myself on the trans cat forum

Okej. Poproszę o zdjęcie dowodu osobistego i prawa jazdy w takim razie.

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:marsey#marmotroman:

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