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- Ballade g-Moll op.23
- Ballade F-Dur op.38
- Ballade As-Durl op.47
- Ballade f-Moll op.52
Complete Works 3
Initiated a new genre of piano music; the ballades are not known earlier in instrumental music. Widely defined phrases, accelerated and slowed musical narrative, culminations in great climaxes, or ending with codas full of pathos - these qualities give Chopin's ballads a special, epic tone.