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Stirling Newberry <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 14 May 2001 20:37:29 -0400
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Deryk Barker wrote:

>Janice Rosen ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
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>>Hi everyone, I am looking for examples of Chopin's music that has been
>>adapted by other musicians and given new titles (example: "Fantasie
>>Impromptu").  Can anyone list other examples?
>
>The earliest example AFAIK, and one of the best-known, is the ballet Les
>Sylphides (orig.  Chopiniana) performed in St. Petersbug in 1907.

Liszt's own pastiche on Chopin's songs beat Les Sylphides by at least a few
years.

Stirling Newberry
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