Chopin's Mazurkas - Part 9 @ r2

This article is part 50 of 52 in the 2022 music project series.
This article is part 9 of 9 in the Reviewing Chopin's mazurkas series.
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  1. Trois Mazurkas
    1. Op. 63, No. 1 in B major
    2. Op. 63, No. 1 in F minor
    3. Op. 63, No. 1 in C♯ minor

Opus 63 brings a close to this series. Technically there are the posthumous mazurkas but after this I'll have listened to and vaguely analyzed 41 of Chopin's mazurkas and frankly, that's enough for a lifetime.

Trois Mazurkas

For à Madame la Comtesse L. Czosnowska.

Op. 63, No. 1 in B major

Starts off very minuet-ish with lots of passing tones in 3rds. The beginning is fairly straightforward until a little modulation into E and the E♭, which ends with another one of those "spelling ties" that I enjoy so much.

The B section kind of reminds me of Return to the Heart by David Lanz 1, since the first beats match rhythm and tone and are in the same key. Op. 63 No. 3 also starts very similarly.

The coda has a nice little vibe with switching the beat from 3 → 2 and a little chromaticism in the right hand.

Op. 63, No. 1 in F minor

Op. 63, No. 1 in C♯ minor

  1. Earlier this year I recorded some of his pieces
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