Libro: CHOPIN - Baladas para Piano (Urtext) (Ekier)

Ballades for Piano Op. 23, 38, 47, 52 (Series A, Vol. I) In his ´´Ballades´´ Chopin created a new, typically Romantic, genre of piano music. Works of this type were not known in earlier instrumental music. Volume I of the National Edition contains all four of Chopin´s ´´Ballades´´. Of the variants in musical notation, those designated ´ossia´ were marked in this way by Chopin himself or inscribed in his hand in pupils´ copies; while those without the indication result from textual divergences in authentic copies or from difficulties in reading the text in an unambiguous way.