Adams Morgan in Northwest Washington in Washington, District of Columbia — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)
Ballades
Fryderyk Chopin
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'Everyone saw in this music, as in the clouds, something different for himself' — Fιlicien Mallefille
Chopin created the genre of the piano ballade. Before Chopin, the name ballad referred in music not to works for solo piano, but to vocal-instrumental pieces determined by a poetical text, singing of love or heroic deeds. Ballads appeared, for example, in mediaeval France in the repertoire of the troubadours and trouvθres. In literature, mainly thanks to the poets Johann Wolfgang Goethe and Friedrich Schiller, the ballad became one of the more characteristic genres of romanticism, combining features of the lyric, epic and dramatic.
Despite the lack of any documented evidence from Chopin himself, commentators have sought extra-musical references in his ballades, especially to the works of Polish bard Adam Mickiewicz. That is because they appear to tell the listener a musical story.
Chopin's four ballades are among the most important works in this oeuvre, and the Ballade in G minor, Op. 23 is often cited as being a ground-breaking work, on account of the shift away from the brilliant style and the internal drama.
Erected by Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Washington, DC; The Fryderyk Chopin Institute.
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Location. Marker has been permanently removed. It was located near 38° 55.477′ N, 77° 2.198′ W. Marker was in Northwest Washington in Washington, District of Columbia. It was in Adams Morgan. It was on 16th Street Northwest just south of Fuller Street Northwest, on the right when traveling south. Touch for map. Marker was at or near this postal address: 2640 16th St NW, Washington DC 20009, United States of America.
We have been informed that this marker is no longer there and will not be replaced. This page is an archival view of what was.
Regionally, this marker was in the Washington Metropolitan Area. It was also in the American Northeast, in the Upper South, in the Mid-Atlantic, in the Tidewater, and in the Chesapeake Bay Region. Globally, it was in the North Atlantic Region, North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere.
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Other markers no longer nearby. Scherzos (was here, next to this marker but has been permanently removed); Maria Skłodowska Curie (was here, next to this marker but has been permanently removed); Ignacy Łukasiewicz (was here, next to this marker but has been permanently removed); Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (was here, next to this marker but has been permanently removed); Mikołaj Kopernik (was here, next to this marker but has been permanently removed); Etudes
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Fryderyk Chopin
Ballade in G minor, Op. 23
incomplete autograph manuscript, n.d.
Fryderyk Chopin Museum
Aubrey Beardsley
Chopin's Ballade, 1895
print on paper
University of Warsaw Library
Credits. This page was last revised on January 30, 2023. It was originally submitted on May 19, 2020, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia. This page has been viewed 245 times since then and 12 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on May 19, 2020, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia.
