CHOPIN Fantaisie-Impromptu | Nicolas BALDEYROU

Dear Friends, I hope you’re well as summer is in approach! I guess It will be the last Chopin video before holidays but I had so many demands, I couldn’t resist to record the famous Fantaisie-Impromptu opus 66! The Fantaisie-Impromptu was written in 1834, as were the Four Mazurkas (Op. 17) and the Grande valse brillante in E♭ major (Op. 18), but unlike these other works, Chopin never published the Fantaisie-Impromptu. Instead, Julian Fontana published it posthumously, along with other waltzes Opp. 69 and 70. It was unknown why Chopin did not release the Fantaisie-Impromptu. The mystery may have been solved in 1960 when pianist Arthur Rubinstein acquired the “Album of the Baroness d’Este“ which had been sold at auction in Paris. The album contained a manuscript of the Fantaisie-Impromptu in Chopin’s own hand, dated 1835, stating on the title page in French “Composed for the Baroness d’Este by Frédéric Chopin“. Rubinstein surmises that the words “Composed for“ in place of a dedication imply that Chopin receive