Hiller says that Chopin played his E minor Concerto and some of his mazurkas and nocturnes.
His Warsaw acquaintance Orlowski, the perpetrator of mazurkas on his concerto themes, was accompanying the violinist Lafont on a concert-tour.
The only other compositions which can be assigned to this year with any certainty are the two Mazurkas in G and B flat, which appear among the posthumous work in Breitkopf and Härtel's Edition.
The concert, organised for the benefit of the Polish refugees, was no great financial success, but it served to bring into notice the second concerto and some of the early mazurkas and nocturnes.
These Mazurkas are just what they are called, only some dance with the heart, others with the heels.
It is the collective sorrow and tribal wrath of a down-trodden nation, and the mazurkas for that reason have ethnic value.
Kullak, Klindworth and Mikuli include in their editions two Mazurkas in A minor.
The mazurkas generally received the title of Souvenir de la Pologne.
Chopin published during his lifetime forty-one Mazurkas in eleven cahiers of three, four and five numbers.
In his nocturnes andmazurkas he is unrivalled, downright fabulous.
When he stiffens his soul, when Russia gets into his nostrils, then the smoke and flame of his Polonaises, the tantalizing despair of his Mazurkasare testimony to the strong man-soul in rebellion.
Worse still, Orlowski served up the themes of his concerto into mazurkas and had the impudence to publish them.
The mazurkas and polonaises are danced to-day in Poland, why not the valses?
This, with progressions of augmented fourths and major sevenths, gives to the Mazurkas of Chopin an exotic character apart from their novel and original content.
The first of the Mazurkasin C-sharp minor bears the early Op.
I found it when I came across five mazurkas in the key of C-sharp minor.
The mazurkas are worthy specimens of their creator's gift for varying not only a simple dance form, but also in juggling with a simple melodic idea so masterfully that the hearer forgets he is hearing a three-part composition on a keyboard.
Yet delightful as their language is, the mazurkas have a far higher claim to our admiration.
Of one of the two mazurkas in A minor, a poor thing and for the most part little Chopinesque, only the dedication (a son ami Rmile Gaillard) is known, but not the date of composition.
Chopin's "New Valses and Mazurkas for the pianoforte"; and on the title-pages of the French edition of Op.
Lenz came to Paris in the summer or autumn of the year 1842; and as he wished to study Chopin's mazurkas with the master himself, he awaited impatiently his return from Nohant.
Lastly, several other mazurkas composed by or attributed to Chopin have been published without any opus number.
The mazurkasof Chopin are a literature in themselves, said Lenz, and there is some truth in his saying.
Chopin himself published forty-one mazurkas of his composition in eleven sets of four, five, or three numbers--Op.
His tone-poems in the dance form (especially his mazurkas and polonaises) receive an unusual charm from their national colouring.
If he were among company who wished to dance, he would sit down to the piano without being pressed and play the most charming Mazurkas and other dances.
Mazurkas and Waltzes are being arranged on the principal themes from my Concerto.
Some of those mazurkas are almost more effective which display a tinge of melancholy, as if the composer had only indulged in a momentary diversion and narcotic intoxication to return the more sadly to his original gloom.
Nor did he confine this criticism to the interpretation of distinctively Polish works, such as mazurkas and polonaises, but applied it also to his concertos, nocturnes, ballads, and studies.
With regard to themazurkas on themes from my Concerto, mercenary motives have won the day, and they are already published.
Out of the large number of his mazurkas it is difficult to tell to which to award the palm; so wide a scope do they offer for individual taste.
I have the sad piece of news to add that Orlowski has been making mazurkas and galops on my themes; but I have begged him not to have them printed.
You know that I cannot flatter you, as I am acquainted not only with your genius but with your capacities, and I know that what the critic referred to in your Mazurkas will only become valuable and lasting in an opera.
The author says, in a note, that he does not know to what critique or to which Mazurkas Elsner refers.
The two Mazurkas that were played in the second part of the concert were interesting examples of that form which apparently no composers but those of Slavonic descent can handle successfully.
An excellent {84} type of this grade of Form is found in the Songs Without Words of Mendelssohn, the Mazurkas of Chopin, and works of similar extent.
No doubt some of his mazurkas are merely artistic settings of these old love songs, but they are the settings of an inspired jeweller.
The feminine side is chiefly embodied in the mazurkasand the nocturnes.
But, apart from this national trait, Chopin had sufficient personal reasons for writing the greater part of his mazurkas and his other pieces in minor keys.
There is more local color in the mazurkas than in any of his other works.
Surveying the mazurkas in their totality, we cannot but notice that there is a marked difference between those up to and those above Op.
Davison relates in his preface to Chopin's mazurkas and waltzes (Boosey & Co.
It is well to sift the posthumous works from those published under Chopin's direction, for the last threemazurkas are the only things he did not keep back as misrepresenting him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mazurkas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
