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Chopin composed his ''Mazurkas'' continuously from 1825 to 1849. The half-utilitarian genre was a point of departure, gradually becoming a form of meditative lyricism - the most personal statement of expression. Chopin's''Mazurkas'' present a number of specific performance problems resulting from such causes as the diversity of individual mazurkas, their collection in opus groups byChopin and his drawing inspiration from dance forms of Polishfolk music. Volume No. 4 contains 43 mazurkas. Of the variants in musical notation, those designated ''ossia'' were marked in this way by Chopin himself or inscribed in his hand in pupils' copies, while those without thisindication result from textual divergences in authentic copies or from difficulties in reading the text in an unambiguous way. The miniature version of the National Edition does not contain source commentary or performance notes.

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The most famous and popular edition of Chopin's works prepared by I. J. Paderewski, L. Bronarski and J. Turczynski. The edition has been based primarily on Chopin's autograph manuscripts, copies approved by him and first editions.

The principal aim of the Editorial Committee has been to establish a text which fully reveals Chopin's thoughts and corresponds to his intentions as closely as possible.

Contents:
Op.10 No.1 In C Major     
Op.10 No.10 In A Flat Major     
Op.10 No.11 In E Flat Major     
Op.10 No.12 In C Minor     Op.10 No.2 In A Minor     
Op.10 No.3 In E Major     Op.10 No.4 In C Sharp Minor     
Op.10 No.5 In G Flat Major    
Op.10 No.6 In E Flat Minor     
Op.10 No.7 In C Major    
Op.10 No.8 In F Major     
Op.10 No.9 In F Minor    
Op.25 No.1 In A Flat Major     
Op.25 No.10 In BMinor.