(New York) More than 175 years after his death, Frédéric Chopin continues to make people dance: a previously unpublished waltz by the Polish composer was discovered in a vault at the Morgan Library-Museum in New York, reported the New York Times.
Posted at 4:10 p.m.
The score, which included the words “Waltz” in French in the text in the header, was discovered on a file by a curator of the establishment during the spring, reports the daily.
“I said to myself: ‘What is going on here? “What could it possibly be?” New York Times the curator, Robinson McClellan, adding that he “did not recognize the music”.
He said he was initially unsure whether the waltz was actually composed by Frédéric Chopin after taking a photo of the score and playing it at home on a piano.
But Robinson McClellan later consulted an expert on the composer at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Morgan Library ultimately concluded that the waltz was authentic after an examination of the ink and paper.
The calligraphy also corresponded to that of Frédéric Chopin, including a bass clef as well as scribbles characteristic of the Polish genius who died in France in 1849.
“We have complete conviction in our conclusions,” Robinson McClellan told the New York Times.
According to the Morgan Library, the music dates from between 1830 and 1835, when Frédéric Chopin was entering his twenties.
The piece features a stark opening and has been described by famed Chinese pianist Lang Lang as containing “a dramatic darkness that transforms into something positive.”
