Schlesinger publishes Chopin’s Nocturnes Op. 9 in Paris

In 1832 Maurice Schlesinger issued Chopin’s Three Nocturnes, Op. 9, in Paris, dedicated to Marie Pleyel, as engraved piano music for sale. Op. 9 No. Chopin wrote the pieces; engravers and shop clerks manufactured copies. The row stores one opus.

9 in Paris (1832-12-01).

Context

Paris sheet music in the early July Monarchy was a bourgeois furniture of evenings: piano in the drawing-room, a title page with a dedication, a price. Chopin used John Field’s night-piece idea and wrote a more chromatic, vocal piano line. Marie Pleyel’s dedication ties the print to a professional pianist-wife of the maker, which is a social fact, not a claim that she composed Op. 9. A nocturne on the stand is a cohesion instrument because several households can play the same piece the same winter. Field’s earlier night pieces are the model, not this colophon; Marie Pleyel’s name on the title is a dedication, not co-authorship of Op. 9.

Shared responsibility is part of Schlesinger publishes Chopin’s Nocturnes Op. 9 in Paris. Naming Frédéric Chopin does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1832-12-01 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.

Why it matters

Improving cohesion path: a printable night piece circulated beyond the one concert hall. High confidence on the opus and publisher. Modest weight: sheet music is not a statute. Later sentimental films that use Op. 9 No. 2 are adaptations, not this engraving.