Waltz in D flat Opus 64 No. 1

How long does it take to play the Minute Waltz? You are right! Two minutes...

Chopin wrote many waltzes, but, unlike the kings of waltz, such as the Viennese Strauss family, he had never intended for them to be danced. Chopin's waltzes were only meant for playing. So he was never bothered by the fact that this rapid waltz is not fit for dancing. And so the folk dance that became a fashionable dance-hall dance, was transformed by Chopin into a musical form of its own.

The "Minute waltz", a Solo piano piece, was included in the last waltz collection Chopin composed (one of 19 waltzes, Opus 64), and is considered one of the most popular piano works he had ever written. Chopin was known to be a composer who never wrote down many of his pieces, since he relied on his memory, and he also improvised on many of them. This Waltz is one of those he actually wrote down and documented orderly. There were many others of this kind, but they were never notated.