Military, War, Fanfares

Track 1033/3Funeral March

Paul Mottram (PRS) From the album Military, War, Fanfares

Military band arrangement of Chopin's Funeral March

Cue Sheet Information

Artists & ComposersPaul MottramPRS: 00160014427, 100%
PublishersAudio Network Rights LimitedPRS: 01159006470, 100%
ISWCT0111241805
ISRCGB-FFM-02-03303
Label Code27831
Release Year2002

Musical Features

KeyBbm/A#m
Metre4/4
Tempo53 BPM
Tempo notesVery Slow
FactoidChopin wrote this as a Piano Sonata (number 2). He wrote the piece after hearing of an artist, Polignac, who had a skeleton seated at his piano. Chopin asked him to bring the skeleton to dinner, and wrote the piece that evening.
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