The "Waltz in D flat major", opus 64, No. 1, popularly known as the "Minute Waltz" is a waltz for solo piano by Frédéric Chopin. Opus, from the Latin word opus meaning work, is usually used in the sense of a work of art. In this sense the plural of opus, opera, is used to refer to the genre of music drama. ... A section from Johann Strauss Waltz from Die Fledermaus For other uses, see Waltz (disambiguation). ... A short grand piano, with the top up. ... The only known photograph of Frédéric Chopin, believed to have been taken by Louis-Auguste Bisson in 1849. ...

The piece is given the tempo marking "Molto vivace". He wrote it in 1847 and published it in Leipzig the same year, as the first of the opus 64 Trois Valses, dedicating it to "To Mme. la Comtesse Delphine Potocka". Since the second waltz is in the key of C-sharp minor, the "Minute" waltz contrasts by being in the enharmonic parallel major key (D-flat major). The first two measures of Mozarts Sonata XI, which indicates the tempo as Andante grazioso and a modern editors metronome marking: = 120. “Andante” redirects here. ... In music, an enharmonic is a note which is the equivalent of some other note, but spelled differently. ... In music, the parallel minor of a particular major key (or the parallel major of a minor key) is the key which has the same tonic and a different key signature, as opposed to relative minor (or major, respectively). ...

Despite its nickname, a typical performance of the work will last between one and a half and two and a half minutes; this is because Chopin's publisher, who coined the nickname, intended the "minute" to mean "small". The waltz, though considered by many to be brilliant, is not grand, and it is not long. It is more playful than many of the other waltzes. Camille Bourniquel, one of Chopin's biographers, reminds the reader that Chopin, with this waltz, was trying to depict a dog chasing its tail; indeed, Chopin originally named the piece "Petit chien" (Little Dog).

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Minute Waltz in popular culture

• The piece is famously used as the theme tune to the BBC radio show Just a Minute.
• It was used to comic effect in the 1955 Warner Brothers cartoon "Hyde and Hare", in which Bugs Bunny refers to it as the "My-noot Waltz by Choppin".
• Doctor Doom, the DC comics villian, once atomized his personal orchestra after they failed to perform the Minute Waltz in exactly one minute.
• Ventriloquist Shari Lewis added lyrics to the waltz as part of her repertoire. To show off her abilities, Lewis and her puppet Lamb Chop would take turns singing the lines in rapid succession with the goal of finishing the song in a minute's time.
• Barbara Streisand also did a similar Minute Waltz song from her 1966 special "Color me Barbara", in which she tried to finish the waltz in exactly one minute, as the title states.
• The Minute Waltz can also be heard playing in the 1969 film, "The Desperados", during a scene in which Jack Palance and his son, George Maharis team up to murder the wife of Vince Edwards and kidnap his son.
• It appears in an episode of I Dream of Jeannie, where it is played in less than a minute.
• Victor Borge and his musical side kick, Leonid Hambro, performed the waltz with two pianos and a single piano stool on which they sat back to back.

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External links

• Study Guide, Recordings and Sheet Music from Chopin Music
• Sheet Music
  • Free sheet music of The Minute Waltz
  • Public domain sheet music of Minute Waltz
  • Waltzes Op.64: Free scores at the International Music Score Library Project.
  • Quatre Mains Free version for Piano Duet.
• Audio
  • MIDI file of Minute Waltz
  • Free recording of Minute Waltz