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Chopin publishes the Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52

In 1843 Chopin’s Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.

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In 1843 Chopin’s Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52, was published as a single large piano work, dedicated to Baroness Charlotte de Rothschild, after the earlier ballades Opp. 23, 38, and 47 had already taught the title to the market. 52, not a cluster of all four ballades as one opus, and not a later scholarly graph of its form. He wrote the piece; the Rothschild dedication names a patron-pupil, not a co-composer. The row does not mint twins for Opp. 23, 38, or 47. Those are other print dates.

4 in F minor, Op. 52 (1843-01-01).

Context

A ‘ballade’ without sung words was still a young public title in the 1840s. Op. 52 asks a domestic pianist to hold a long argument, which is why it is stored as education rather than as a nationalist speech. The Heroic Polonaise of the same years is a different title and a different welfare path. Nohant quiet is production context, not the colophon. Op. 52 is a shop object with a named dedicatee; it is not a lecture on ballad metre and not a set with the three earlier ballades bound as one legal opus.

52 on 1843-01-01. Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

Why it matters

Improving education path: a difficult public piece circulated as a score people could buy and study. High confidence on the opus year. Modest weight: one ballade is not a conservatory reform.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Mixed effects of Chopin publishes the Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52 are separate paths.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.32 · verified

    He composed and published the fourth ballade as a large public piano work. Publishers engraved it. Complex author, not a later analyst of its form.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Cambridge Companion to ChopinCambridge University Press · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Fryderyk Chopin Institute — works and sourcesNarodowy Instytut Fryderyka Chopina · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

The Institute’s works catalogue dates Op. 52 and the dedication. The Cambridge Companion independently treats the ballades as published large-form works with separate opus histories. Official: https://chopin.nifc.pl/en/chopin/dziela (opens in a new tab). Independent: https://doi.org/10.1017/ccol9780521404907 (opens in a new tab). The records establish 1843 print of Op. 52. They do not establish a unique later analysis-citation series as a welfare outcome.

Established: Op. 52 was published in 1843 as Chopin’s fourth ballade. Not established: that it uniquely caused a later narrative-piano school, or that Opp. A contradictory first edition with another year would change the row.

Shared responsibility is part of Chopin publishes the Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52. Naming Frédéric Chopin does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1843-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

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Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorFrédéric Chopin
  2. contributed toFactChopin publishes the Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). Chopin publishes the Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/ch-ballade-op52-1843

https://factrail.ai/facts/ch-ballade-op52-1843

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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