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Updated: May 5, 2025

Liszt played these Variations often at his concerts, and even wrote orchestral accompaniments to them, which, however, were never published. A. d'Eichthal. This last work appeared at Paris first in an Album des Pianistes, a collection of unpublished pieces by Thalberg, Chopin, Doehler, Osborne, Liszt, and Mereaux.

Frederick Niecks - Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 2

Two things in connection with this album may yet be mentioned namely, that Mereaux contributed to it a Fantasia on a mazurka by Chopin, and that Stephen Heller reviewed it in the Gazette musicale. Chopin was by no means pleased with the insertion of the waltzes in Schlesinger's Album des Pianistes. But more of this and his labours and grievances as a composer in the next chapter.

Frederick Niecks - Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 2