Robert Schumann in Leipzig - September, 1836
from Selected Correspondance of Fryderyck Chopin, page 137:
[Letter from Robert Schumann to conductor Heinrich Dorn]
Just as I received your letter two days ago and was on the point of answering it, who do you think walked in? Chopin!... He gave me a new Ballade in G minor. It seems to me his most inspired work (if not the one most filled with genius), and I told him I liked it best of all his works. After a long pause for reflection he said with great emphasis, 'Tm glad you think so ; it is my favourite too.' ' Besides that he played a whole number of new studies, Nocturnes and Mazurkas everything incomparably. It fills you with … more >>
Bronislaw Edward Sydow (Comp) and Chopin, and Arthur Hedley (ed.), Selected Correspondance of Fryderyck Chopin (Prescot, 1962), p. 137. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1426626284011 accessed: 18 January, 2025
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Ballade in G minor
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| Date/Time | September, 1836 |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors |