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Unknown waltz by Chopin found in library vault after nearly 200 years

The score, on a card bearing Frédéric Chopin’s hand-written name, was discovered by a curator at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York

The score, on a card bearing Frédéric Chopin’s hand-written name, was found by a curator in the spring, the New York Times reported on Sunday. He conferred with an academic at the University of Pennsylvania who is an expert on the Polish composer, before the Morgan concluded the find was genuine after testing the ink and paper. While he is one of music’s most beloved figures – his heart, pickled in a jar of alcohol, is encased in a church in Warsaw – he was less prolific than other composers, writing about 250 pieces, almost entirely for solo piano.

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