NEWS · B2 Level - Part 1

A new piece by Chopin

An emotional waltz written by a master composer, too bad nobody knew it existed for 200 years.

Level: B2 · 22 sentences

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  1. An emotional waltz written by a master composer,
  2. too bad nobody knew it existed for 200 years.
  3. A curator at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York discovered an untitled and unsigned piece of sheet music
  4. that is now being credited to European composer Frederic Chopin.
  5. This is a manuscript by Frederic Chopin, the French-Polish composer of the 19th century.
  6. It's very small, the size of an index card. It's a one page piece of music.
  7. Frederic Chopin was a maestro of the 18th-century Romantic Era.
  8. He died in Paris at the age of 39,
  9. leaving some wondering if there could have been more music if Chopin had lived longer.
  10. The incomplete sheet music became part of the library's collection in 2019.
  11. As the music was unsigned,
  12. the library has worked with experts to try to authenticate it.
  13. There's some debate as well as to whether it's a piece he wrote,
  14. but the consensus so far is that it really feels like him.
  15. Finding anything by a composer like Chopin is very meaningful.
  16. It would be like, I don't know...
  17. a playwright finding some new Shakespeare or a writer finding some new Dickens or something like that.
  18. Whether it really is a Chopin piece or not,
  19. the music is on display at the Morgan Library and Museum.
  20. Discoveries like this are quite rare.
  21. As you may have heard of the Mozart discovery a few months ago,
  22. These really don't happen very often. For Chopin, this is the first in almost a hundred years.