A recently discovered waltz in A minor by Frédéric Chopin has been published for the first time in an Urtext edition by G Henle Verlag, edited by Chopin scholar Jeffrey Kallberg and with fingering provided by pianist Lang Lang. The autograph manuscript, composed around 1830 when Chopin was in his early twenties, was found last year in the vaults of the Morgan Library & Museum in New York.

The edition includes a facsimile of the original manuscript alongside a scholarly commentary by Kallberg, who offers insights into the work’s origins and its place within Chopin’s early output. The discovery marks the first previously unknown Chopin composition to come to light in over half a century.

To mark the publication, the Morgan Library is presenting an exhibition in its historic Rotunda from 13 May to 14 September. The display centres on the autograph of the newly discovered waltz and includes other early Chopin works, such as a mazurka composed as he left Poland, an étude from his first years in Paris, and the playbill from his 1832 Paris debut at the Salons Pleyel. 

The edition is available now from G Henle Verlag and at the Morgan Shop in New York. For more information, visit: www.henle.de

Lang Lang's premiere recording of the waltz can be heard below: