Chopin «Minute Waltz» Op.64 No.1 (version 1) P. Barton, FEURICH piano

To learn more about Apogee «Duet» visit: Free sheet music in the public domain: There is occasionally a misunderstanding that «Minute» in the title refers to minute as in 60 seconds, but in fact the publisher Breitkopf & Härtel in the first edition 1847 gave the waltz the nickname (not Chopin) «Minute» as in the sense of «small» or «miniature» waltz. Chopin did NOT intend this waltz to be played in just one minute. Typical performances of this waltz last between one and a half and two and a half minutes. Camille Bourniquel (one of Chopin's biographers) wrote that Chopin got the inspiration for this waltz as he was watching a small dog chase its tail, which prompted the composer to name the piece Valse du petit chien, meaning «The Little Dog Waltz».