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Piano Concertos
" Chopin had composed Concerto in F minor Op.21 and in E minor Op.11 with accompaniment of the orchestra in Warsaw, before he left Poland for good at the beginning of November 1830.
Chopin`s opinion on his Concerto in E minor: " The Adagio of my new Concerto is in E major. It is not meant to create a powerful effect; it is rather a Romance, calm and melancholy, giving the impression of someone looking gently towards a spot which calls to mind a thousand happy memories. It is a kind of reverie in the moonlight on a beautiful spring evening."
It was probably the first and the last time that Chopin revealed a relation between his own music and a specific person, Konstancja Gładkowska, his first love, when he commented upon Larghetto from the Concerto in F minor: " Maybe it is, unfortunately, for this ideal person that I have faithfully served without talking to her for a year, and dreamt about, and memorised in adagio of my Concerto... "
Jan Ekier
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