Chopin: Grande Valse Brillante, Op. 18 for double bass and piano (arr. by Michael Kurth)

About the Composition (from Michael Kurth) Bassists, here's your chance to program some recital music that non-bass players will recognize. Your pianist will thank you. Your audience will hum along. Kittens will cuddle you. (Kitten cuddles are not specifically guaranteed.) Composition History (from Wiki) The Grande valse brillante in E-flat major, Op. 18, was composed by Frédéric Chopin in 1833 and published in 1834. Chopin dedicated it to his pupil, Laura Horsford.[1] This was his first published waltz composition for solo piano, although prior to 1834 he had written at least sixteen waltzes that were either destroyed or eventually published posthumously. Chopin also gave the title Grande valse brillante to the next three waltzes in the Op. 34 set, published in 1838. In 1909, Russian composer Igor Stravinsky made an orchestral arrangement of this waltz for Sergei Diaghilev's 1909 ballet Les Sylphides. Other composers who orchestrated this waltz for that ballet are Alexander Gretchani