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Mazurkas, Op. 30 (Chopin)

set of mazurkas composed by Frederic Chopin

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ6799054 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Op. 30 mazurkas, by Frédéric Chopin, are a set of 4 mazurkas written and published in 1837:

No. 1, in C minor

No. 2, in B minor (ends in F♯ minor)

No. 3, in D♭ major

No. 4, in C♯ minor

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1837—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1830. For this dossier, Mazurkas, Chopin and mazurkas is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6799054. VIAF identifies the subject as 179666523. The Library of Congress control number is no2001099649. 1 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1837.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mazurkas, Op. 30 (Chopin)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.