Fantaisie-Impromptu

Main Theme of the Fantaisie-Impromptu

Frédéric Chopin's Fantaisie-Impromptu (Polish: Fantazja-Impromptu) in C♯ minor, Op. posth. 66, WN 46 is a solo piano composition. It was composed in 1834 and published posthumously in 1855 despite Chopin's instruction that none of his unpublished manuscripts be published.[1] The Fantaisie-Impromptu is one of Chopin's most frequently performed and popular compositions.[2]: 189 

  1. ^ J. Cuthbert Hadden (1903). Chopin. New York: E.P.Dutton & Co. pp. 160, 242. Retrieved 16 February 2015. chopin.
  2. ^ Ernst Oster, "The Fantaisie–Impromptu: A Tribute to Beethoven", in Aspects of Schenkerian Analysis, David Beach, ed. Yale University Press, 1983 ISBN 0-300-02800-8