Curator Robinson McClellan gives us a tour of the installation of works by Frédéric Chopin currently on view in the museum's Rotunda of the Historic Library through September 14! The installation features the recently discovered waltz (ca. 1830) found in the Morgan’s music collection last year, alongside other works by Chopin from the same period: an early masterpiece he wrote as a teenager in Poland, a mazurka (Polish folk dance) he conceived when he was leaving the country, and an étude he com

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