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The three Waltzes, Op. 70, were composed by Frédéric Chopin between 1829 and 1842 and were
The Waltz Op. 70, No. 1, in G-flat major was composed in 1832. It is written in the "brilliant style". According to
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Chopin composed the Waltz Op. 70, No. 3 in D-flat major in 1829 and sent it together with a accompanying letter of 3 October 1829 to his intimate friend 
The three Waltzes, Op. 70, were composed by Frédéric Chopin between 1829 and 1842 and were posthumously
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published by Julian Fontana
Julian (or Jules) Fontana (31 July 181023 December 1869) was a Polish pianist, composer, lawyer, author, translator, and entrepreneur, best remembered as a close friend and musical executor of Polish composer Frédéric Chopin.
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in 1855, six years after the composer's death. Waltz No. 1 is in G-flat major
G-flat major (or the key of G-flat) is a major scale based on G, consisting of the pitches G, A, B, C, D, E, and F. Its key signature has six flats.
Its relative minor is E-flat minor (or enharmonically D-sharp minor), and its parallel ...
, No. 2 in F minor
F minor is a minor scale based on F, consisting of the pitches F, G, A, B, C, D, and E. Its key signature consists of four flats. Its relative major is A-flat major and its parallel major is F major. Its enharmonic equivalent, E-sharp mi ...
and No. 3 in D-flat major
D-flat major (or the key of D-flat) is a major scale based on D, consisting of the pitches D, E, F, G, A, B and C. Its key signature has five flats. It is enharmonically equivalent to C-sharp major.
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. Each of the three waltz
The waltz ( ), meaning "to roll or revolve") is a ballroom and folk dance, normally in triple ( time), performed primarily in closed position.
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es lasts less than three minutes to perform in typical performances.
No. 1
The Waltz Op. 70, No. 1, in G-flat major was composed in 1832. It is written in the "brilliant style". According to Jeffrey Kallberg
Jeffrey Kallberg (born 17 October 1954) is an American musicologist, who specializes 19th and 20th-century classical music, as well as topics in critical theory and gender studies related to music. He has written numerous articles and studies ...
, "the unpublished waltzes also capture the joyfulness and glitter of the dance hall and salon, as we can hear in the waltzes in E major, A-flat major (Chopin's only waltz notated in three- eighth metre), and, especially, in G-flat major, Op. 70, No 1."Booklet/ref>
No. 2
The waltz Op. 70, No. 2, in F minor was composed in 1842. In December 1842 in Paris, Chopin wrote toAnna Caroline Oury
Anna Caroline Oury (''née'' De Belleville), also known as Ninette de Belleville, Ninette von Belleville or Ninette de Belleville-Oury (24 January 1806 – 22 July 1880), was a German pianist and composer of French ancestry.
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Ann ...
about Op. 70, No. 2: "As for the little waltz which I have had the pleasure of writing for you, I beg you, keep it for yourself: I should not like it to be made public." Chopin, however, dedicated manuscript copies of some of his waltzes to different women dedicatees: in the case of this F minor waltz, there are five different autograph manuscripts and four different women dedicatees.
The Chopin commentator Wilhelm von Lenz wrote: "Although he never had the waltzes f Op. 70published, Chopin valued them highly, at least the one in F minor. I often heard him play it, and how incomparably! This nostalgic piece could be entitled Melanconia."
No. 3
Chopin composed the Waltz Op. 70, No. 3 in D-flat major in 1829 and sent it together with a accompanying letter of 3 October 1829 to his intimate friend Tytus Woyciechowski
Tytus Sylwester Woyciechowski (31 December 1808 – 23 March 1879) was a Polish political activist, agriculturalist, and patron of art. He was an early friend of the Polish composer Frédéric Chopin.
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Jeffrey Kallberg suggests: "Two of the waltzes offer unusual, personal testimony of Chopin's amorous sentiments toward women." (The waltzes mentioned by Kallberg are Op. 70 Nr. 3 and the initial version of the Waltz in A-flat major, Op. 69, No. 1, which Chopin 1835 dedicated to Maria Wodzińska
Maria Wodzińska, ''primo voto'' Skarbkowa, ''secundo voto'' Orpiszewska (7 January 1819 – 7 December 1896), was a Polish artist who was once engaged to composer Frédéric Chopin.
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Maria Wodzińska was a daughter of Count Wincenty Wodzi ...
and later also to Eliza Peruzzi and Charlotte de Rothschild
Baroness Charlotte de Rothschild (6 May 1825 – 20 July 1899) was a French socialite, painter, and a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of France.
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She was born in Paris, the daughter of Betty von Rothschild (1805â ...
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He continues, "The Waltz in D-flat major, Op. 70, No. 3, dates from Chopin's Warsaw period, and it indexes his nascent romantic life. In a letter to a friend, Chopin confided that the low melody that begins its trio was inspired by his (alas unrequited) crush on the young singer, Konstancja GÅ‚adkowska."
Chopin wrote to Woyciechowski:
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