Frédéric Chopin composed his Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35 ("Funeral March") mainly in 1839 at Nohant near Chateauroux in France, although the funeral march third movement had been composed as early as 1837. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2536x3391, 757 KB) Description: Title: de: Porträt des Frédéric Chopin Technique: de: Leinwand Dimensions: de: 46 × 38 cm Country of origin: de: Frankreich Current location (city): de: Paris Current location (gallery): de: Musée du Louvre Other notes... The only known photograph of Frédéric Chopin (commonly mistaken for a daguerrotype), taken by Louis-Auguste Bisson in 1849. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Nohant-Vic is a village in the Indre département of central France. ... For the town in the Hautes-Alpes, see Ch teauroux-les-Alpes. ...

The sonata consists of four movements. In music, a movement is a large division of a larger composition or musical form. ...

1. Grave; Doppio movimento
2. Scherzo
3. Marche funèbre: Lento
4. Finale: Presto

The first movement features a stormy opening theme and a gently lyrical second theme. The second contains a calmer, more relaxed melodic theme. The third movement begins and ends with the celebrated funeral march in B flat minor which gives the sonata its nickname, but has a calm interlude in D flat major which, since it is technically accessible (among the easiest to play among Chopin's works) is sometimes found separately in books for beginning pianists. The finale contains a whirlwind of unison notes with unremitting (not a single rest or chord until the final bars) unvarying tempo or dynamics (changes of volume); James Huneker, in his introduction to the American version of Mikuli edition of the Sonatas, quotes Chopin as saying "The left hand unisono with the right hand are gossiping after the March". Others have remarked that the fourth movement is wind howling around the gravestones. A funeral march is a march composed, usually in a minor key, in in a slow simple duple metre imitating the solemn pace of a funeral procession. ... Carl Mikuli (1819–1897) is most well known as an editor of works by Chopin, his teacher. ...

The Sonata may have been influenced by the struggle for freedom in Poland. It confused contemporary critics who found it lacked cohesion. Robert Schumann suggested that Chopin had in this sonata "simply bound together four of his most unruly children." Robert Schumann (June 8, 1810 – July 29, 1856) was a German composer and pianist. ...

Funeral March

The famous funeral march for piano is the 3rd movement of his Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, op. 35 . This is probably the most well known and famous funeral march with many apperances in popular culture, such as cartoons. A funeral march is a march composed, usually in a minor key, in in a slow simple duple metre imitating the solemn pace of a funeral procession. ...