Marcia funebre op. 35 n. 2

The Sonata no. 2 op. 35 in B flat minor is certainly the most famous of Frédéric Chopin's three sonatas: it was composed in 1839, "around" the third movement, the Funeral March, which had already been drafted in 1837, at the time of his stay in Nohant in the castle of her then partner George Sand. This famous Funeral March was performed together with other compositions by Chopin himself on the occasion of his funeral, as he himself requested. The funeral took place in Paris, at the Eglise de la Madeleine, on 30 October 1849. The main artists of Paris wanted to take part. At the Introit the funeral march of the great artist who had recently passed away was heard; it was instrumented for that occasion by M. Reber. The Artist was buried in Paris in the Père Lachaise cemetery, but his heart is preserved in Warsaw, in the Church of the Holy Cross. The funeral, worthy of a Head of State, took place in a cold and rainy Paris with an immense crowd saddened by this great mourning.