Polish songs (Chopin)
List of Polish songs by Chopin

Polish songs (Chopin)

Section Title: List of Polish songs by Chopin
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Polish title	English translation	Alternative title(s)	Text by	Date composed	Published	Opus no.	Other catalogue nos.	Key	Notes

Życzenie	A Maiden's wish	A Young Girl's Wish	Stefan Witwicki	c. 1829	1837, Kiev; later 1857, Berlin	74/1	WN 21, B. 33	G major	Franz Liszt used this melody as No. 2 (Mélodie polonaise) of his Glanes de Woronince, S.249 (1847); Liszt also transcribed the song for piano solo as No.

Wiosna	Spring	Witwicki	1838	1857, Berlin	74/2	B. 116	G minor	Chopin rewrote the piano part as Andantino, B. 117; there exist 5 manuscripts of this arrangement, dated between April 1838 and 1 September 1848; Franz Liszt also transcribed the song for piano solo as No.

Smutna rzeka	Troubled Waters	The Mournful Stream, Sad River	Witwicki	1831	1857, Berlin	74/3	B. 63/1	F-sharp minor

Hulanka	Drinking Song	Witwicki	August 1830	1857, Berlin	74/4	WN 32, B. 50	C major	Franz Liszt transcribed the song for piano solo as No. 4 of his Six Chants polonais, S.480 (composed 1847-1860)

Gdzie lubi	A Fickle Maid	A Maiden’s Love, A Girl’s Desire	Witwicki	c. 1829	1857, Berlin	74/5	WN 22, B. 32	A major

Precz z moich oczu	Remembrance	A Leave-taking, Out of my sight	Adam Mickiewicz	1830	1857, Berlin	74/6	WN 33, B. 48	F minor

Poseł	The Messenger	The Message	Witwicki	1830	1857, Berlin	74/7	WN 30, B. 50	D major

Śliczny chłopiec	Handsome Lad	Charming Lad; My Beloved	Józef Bohdan Zaleski	1841	1857, Berlin	74/8	B. 143	D major

Melodia	Melody	Elegy; Lamento; Onward	Zygmunt Krasiński	1847	1857, Berlin	74/9	B. 165	E minor

Wojak	The Warrior	Before the Battle	Witwicki	1830	1839, Kiev; later 1857, Berlin	74/10	WN 34, B. 47	A-flat major

Dwojaki koniec	The Double-End	The Twofold End; The Two Corpses; Death's Divisions; United in Death	Zaleski	1845	1857, Berlin	74/11	B. 156/1	D minor

Moja pieszczotka	My Darling	My Joys; My Delight	Mickiewicz	1837	1857, Berlin	74/12	B. 112	G-flat major	Franz Liszt transcribed the song for piano solo as No. 5 of his Six Chants polonais, S.480 (composed 1847-1860)

Nie ma czego trzeba	I Want What I Have Not	Faded and Vanished; Melancholy; Lack of Light	Zaleski	1845	1857, Berlin	74/13	B. 156/2	A minor	A simpler version was published in 1910 as Dumka

Pierścień	The Ring	Witwicki	8 September 1836	1857, Berlin	74/14	B. 103	E-flat major	Chopin wrote this song into the album of Maria Wodzińska, to whom he had just become betrothed; Franz Liszt also transcribed the song for piano solo as No.

Narzeczony	The Bridegroom's return	The Return Home, The Betrothed	Witwicki	1831	1857, Berlin	74/15	WN 40, B. 63/2	C minor	Franz Liszt transcribed the song for piano solo as No. 6 of his Six Chants polonais, S.480 (composed 1847-1860)

Piosnka litewska	Lithuanian Song	trans. Ludwik Osiński	1830 (1831)?	1857, Berlin	74/16	WN 38, B. 63/3	F major	Translated from a Lithuanian folk song

Śpiew z mogiły	Poland's Dirge	Leaves are falling	Wincenty Pol	8 May 1836	1857, Berlin	74/17	WN 49, B. 101	E-flat minor

Dumka	Reverie	Dirge; Mist Before My Eyes	Zaleski	25 March 1840	22 October 1910, Lwów	(74/19)?	B. 132, KK.IVb/9	A minor	Sometimes included in Op. 74; this is an earlier, simpler version of Nie ma czego trzeba.

Czary	Witchcraft	Witwicki	1830 (?)	1910, Leipzig	(74/18)?	WN 31, B. 51, KK.IVa/11	D minor	Sometimes included in Op. 74; the 1910 publication was of a facsimile reproduction of an album Chopin had sent to Maria Wodzińska.

Płótno	Linen	?	?	KK.Vd/5	?	Lost; mentioned in a letter from Julian Fontana to Chopin's sister Ludwika Jędrzejewicz, dated 2 July 1852

Jakież kwiaty	Which Flowers	I. Maciejowski	22 August 1829	1856, Warsaw	B. 39, KK.Iva/9	G major	ded. Vaclav Hanka

3 songs	?	?	?	KK.Vd/6-8	?	Lost; listed in a letter from Chopin's Scottish pupil Jane Stirling to Ludwika Jędrzejewicz, dated July 1852

4 songs	?	Only the violin parts remain

?	?	?	?	KK.Vc/10	?	Lost; mentioned in a letter from Ludwika Jędrzejewicz to her brother Chopin, dated 9 January 1841

Dumka na Wygnaniu	Song of the Exile	M Gosławski	?	KK.Anh. Ic/1	?	Doubtful authenticity

Tam na błoniu	There on the Green	?	?	KK.Anh. Ic/2	?	Doubtful authenticity

Trzeci maj	The Third of May	S Starzeński	?	KK.Anh. Ic/3	?	Doubtful authenticity

O wiem, że Polska	Oh, I know that Poland	Krasiński	?	KK.Anh. Ic/4	?	Doubtful authenticity

Pytasz się, czemu	You Ask Why	Krasiński	?	KK.Anh. Ic/5	?	Doubtful authenticity

Pieśni pielgrzyma polskiego	Songs of a Polish Pilgrim	K Gaszyński	?	KK.Anh. Ic/6	?	Doubtful authenticity

Sentence(s)

Chopin worked for the piano part of Wiosna as Andantino in G minor, B. 117.
Chopin arranged the piano part of Wiosna as Andantino in G minor, B. 117.
Chopin himself arranged the piano part of Wiosna as Andantino in G minor, B. 117.

final_sentence: Chopin worked for the piano part of Wiosna as Andantino in G minor, B. 117.
final_sentence: Chopin arranged the piano part of Wiosna as Andantino in G minor, B. 117.
final_sentence: Chopin himself arranged the piano part of Wiosna as Andantino in G minor, B. 117.