F. Chopin - Polonaise in B flat minor B.13

F. - in B flat minor Performed by Luke Faulkner. Like the the polonaise is a national Polish genre. Many composers turned to him, and not only Polish (Mozart, Bach, Glinka), from Chopin&compatriots - Wieniawski, Oginsky. Unlike the mazurka, the origin of the polonaise is not connected with the people, but with the aristocratic environment, this is an old ceremonial procession of the Polish nobility, of a very solemn, ceremonial nature. The polonaise is related to the mazurka by the feeling of patriotism. Through the polonaise, the composer glorified his homeland, recalling its former greatness and dreaming of a future, free Poland. Chopin wrote his first polonaises as a child, they were published posthumously. #piano