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Ballade No. 1 in G minorOp. 23

Frédéric Chopin

  • Difficulty 9
  • G minor
  • 8 min
  • 264 measures

Chopin's first ballade, published in 1836. This edition takes its phrasing, expression and fingering from Carl Mikuli's 1894 edition, with readings from the autograph and the French first editions in bars 7–8, 29 and 31.

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