On 23 August 1841 Chopin wrote to the Viennese publisher Mechetti: ?I currently have a manuscript available for you. It is a kind of fantasia in the form of a polonaise that I would call Polonaise?. Chopin?s uncertainty about the title is only too understandable. The work begins as a proud polonaise. Then a passage bursts in during which an octave a is relentlessly played more than thirty times. This almost modern sounding passage leads into a mazurka that seems to come from a different, enraptured world. Henle are now publishing this ?kind of fantasia?, previously only available in the edition of all the polonaises (HN 217), in a revised single edition.
Polonaise In F Sharp Minor Op.44
| Arrangement | Piano |
| Genres | Romantic |
| Format | Instrumental Work |
| Level | 4 |
| NumberOfPages | 32 |
| Media | Sheet Music |
| Series | Henle Urtext Editions |
| Publisher | Henle Verlag |
| Contributors | Chopin, Frédéric (Composer) |
| Language | English |
| ISMN | 9790201811543 |