Mazurkas (Dover Music for Piano) [Paperback]

Frederic Chopin (Author), Classical Piano Sheet Music (Author)

Book Description

Series: Dover Music for Piano | Publication Date: December 1, 1987

Features 51 best-loved compositions, reproduced directly from the authoritative Kistner edition edited by Carl Mikuli, a pupil of Chopin. Editor's Foreword, 1879.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Dover Publications (December 1, 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0486255484
• ISBN-13: 978-0486255484
• Product Dimensions: 12 x 9.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Complete Mazurka -music of his homeland, May 8, 2003

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Curious George Sand "curious_george_sand" (Chula Vista, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mazurkas (Dover Music for Piano) (Paperback)

This book is based on FR. Kistner Leipzig edition. Editor is Chopin's pupil Carl Mikuli foreword dated 1879, 30 years after chopin's death.

There are many other editions of Mazurkas which I personally prefer to this available but I rate this book as a important reference to learn what the composer was intended. The editor Carl Mikuli was Chopin's piano pupil and many times he witnessed the performance of composer himself which were only to those of close to him. (Chopin did only a handful of public concerts and recitals in his life) However, intimate accounts of how his (Chopin)fingers were shaped during the passages could only be used as a sentimental knowledges which has little use for today's performance standard.

Nonetheless, we could keep in mind that what composer himself tried to express and teach his students his music as a great way to express our feeling through these beautiful works. Many Mazurkas have only a few pages and many could be played by begining students.

There are discussions of how the Mazurkas should be played, outside this book but Mikuli himself did not address this matter. (Where should the Mazurka's accents have to be placed--and there is a accounts of Chopin and Meyerbeer arguing reported by other pupil von Lenz who was taking lessons of Mazurka.)

Convenient package of 1 book with this inexpensive price, with the cover portlait by Eugene Delacroix, also Chopin's close friend is a great buy for the piano students of all levels.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Music At Great Value, July 26, 2003

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Alan Beggerow (Sterling, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mazurkas (Dover Music for Piano) (Paperback)

This edition of Chopin's Mazurkas is far from definitive, but for the piano student and music lover, it is a great value. To get the composer's entire output of Mazurkas at this price is remarkable. Recommended!

3.0 out of 5 stars Good collection, low quality, April 27, 2010

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Marcelo A. Chacon (Princeton, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mazurkas (Classic Reprint) (Paperback)

I bought this because I wanted to have all the Chopin's mazurcas in one book. I didn't check the size of the book (really small), so it is dificult to me reading the scores while a play piano. Also, because this books is a reprint of another one, some musical notes are missing.