Minute Waltz Valse
(Frederic Chopin)
Minute Waltz
by Frederic Chopin
“ Minute Waltz ” originally titled Waltz in D-flat major, Op. 64, No. 1, Valse du petit chien (French for “Waltz of the puppy”), popularly known in English as the “Minute Waltz”, is a piano waltz composed by Frédéric Chopin. It is dedicated to the Countess Delfina Potocka. Chopin composed the waltz in 1847 and had it published by Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig the same year, as the first of the Trois Valses, Op. 64. The second waltz is in the enharmonic parallel minor key of C-sharp minor.