Curators at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York City have discovered a musical manuscript believed to belong to Polish pianist and composer Frédéric Chopin in the museum’s collection.

The work measures 4 to 5 inches, similar to Chopin’s other manuscripts, and is thought to have been originally intended as a gift, according to a press release from the Morgan Library and Museum.

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Robinson McClellan, curator of Music Manuscripts and Printed Music at the Morgan Library and Museum, told Fox News Digital via email. first discovery A new work by Chopin from the 1930s.

A rare manuscript of a waltz believed to have been composed by Frédéric Chopin has been discovered at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York. (Morgan Library and Museum)

“Chopin left it unsigned and unpublished, perhaps a sign that he felt ambivalence about it, but he added performance cues such as piano fingerings and dynamics, indicating that he wanted it performed,” McClellan said.

Library curators researched the music with Chopin experts and said the manuscript “is a world-important discovery.” classical piano music.”

The sheet music was discovered nearly 200 years after Chopin’s death. It is thought to have been written between 1810 and 1849. Chopin died in 1849.

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“The beginning of the piece is very striking: a few moody, dissonant bars culminate in a loud explosion, before a melancholy melody begins. None of his known waltzes begin this way, which makes this even more intriguing,” he said in the press release.

The piece is thought to have been composed between 1810 and 1849. (General Photography Agency/Getty Images)

Chopin famously wrote music in “small forms”, but this rare piece It takes about a minute.

“This newly discovered waltz expands our understanding of Chopin as a composer and opens new questions for scholars to consider about when he wrote it and to whom it was intended,” McClellan said in the press release.

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Morgan Library and Museum It is home to more than 350,000 objects, rare books, manuscripts, drawings, prints and other works of art.

Chopin famously wrote in “small forms”, but this rare piece of music lasts about a minute. (Morgan Library and Museum)

The discovered Chopin piece will join the Morgan collection and be presented to visitors.

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McClellan said, “We see this announcement as the beginning of the process, not the end. We hope that music lovers, pianists and academics will examine and absorb this and form their own opinions.”