A Chopin Waltz has been unearthed, apparently! [View all]

The NY Times article (By Javier C. Hernández, Oct. 27, 2024) begins:

Deep in the vault of the Morgan Library & Museum in Manhattan on a late-spring day, the curator Robinson McClellan was sorting through a collection of cultural memorabilia. There were postcards signed by Picasso, a vintage photograph of a French actress and letters from Brahms and Tchaikovsky.

When McClellan came across Item No. 147, he froze...

The article includes Lang Lang performing it, and links to other audio files of Chopin works for comparison: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/27/arts/music/chopin-waltz-discovery.html

It seems Chopin didn't want this early work (or sketch, really) to be published, and he wanted his unpublished 'works' to be burned after his death. But what a guilty thrill anyway to get a peek at something like this. (He might have written many, many more as little favors to people at his soirees!)