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Description :
Chopin composed his ' ' Mazurkas ' ' continuously from 1825 to 1849. The half-utilitarian genre was a point où departure, gradually becoming a form où meditative lyricism - the most personal statement où expression. Chopin ' s ' ' Mazurkas ' ' present a number où specific performance problems resulting from such causes as the diversity où individual mazurkas, their collection in opus groups byChopin and his drawing inspiration from dance forms où Polish folk music. Volume nos 4 contains 43 mazurkas. où the variants in musical notation, those designated' ' ossia ' ' were marked in this way by Chopin himself où inscribed in his hand in pupils ' copies, while those without this indicatioù result from textual divergences in authentic copies où from difficulties in reading the text in an unambiguous way. The miniature version où the National edition does nos contain source commentary où performance notes.