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Funeral March from Piano Sonata No. 2 by Chopin. Sheet music for Violin, page 1.

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Chopin - Funeral March from Piano Sonata No. 2

Sheet music for violin

Alt. Title: Marche funèbre
Info: This piece is the third movement from the Piano Sonata No. 2 in B♭ minor, Op. 35. This sonata is popularly known as The Funeral March or Marche funèbre because of the movement three. The emotive theme has become well known in popular culture. It was used at the state funerals of John F. Kennedy, Sir Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher and Soviet leaders, including Leonid Brezhnev.
Opus number: 35
Date: 1839
Artist: Frédéric François Chopin
Born: 22 February or 1 March 1810, Żelazowa Wola
Died: 17 October 1849, Paris
The artist: Polish composer and a virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era, who wrote primarily for the solo piano. He gained and has maintained renown worldwide as one of the leading musicians of his era, whose "poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation." A child prodigy, he completed his musical education and composed his earlier works in Warsaw before leaving Poland at the age of 20.
Instrument: Violin
Key: B minor
Range: B3 - F#6
Time signature: 4/4
Tempo: 60 BPM
Duration: 7:12
Pages: 2
Difficulty: Intermediate
Style: Classical
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