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Chopin publishes Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58

In 1845 Chopin’s Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58, was published as a four-movement work dedicated to Countess Emilie de Perthuis, after the 1840 B-flat minor sonata (Op. In the causal graph this event strengthens the driver Personal-Data Protection.

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In 1845 Chopin’s Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58, was published as a four-movement work dedicated to Countess Emilie de Perthuis, after the 1840 B-flat minor sonata (Op. 35) had already shocked the market with its funeral-march movement. 58 print, not Op. 35 and not a later critical edition. Chopin wrote the sonata at the Nohant-Paris hinge of the mid-1840s; engravers made the object. Later complete sonata cycles on disc are reception.

3 in B minor, Op. 58 (1845-01-01).

Context

A piano sonata in 1845 still carried Beethoven’s public shadow. Chopin’s Op. 58 answers with lyric movements and a finale that is not a political march. Op. 35’s march is a different opus and a different public argument. Countess de Perthuis was a pupil-patron; she is not listed as co-author. A four-movement piano sonata in the shops is a public record of large form; it is not a funeral march from another opus and not a conservatory statute that retired Beethoven that year. Nohant quiet may be the production weather; the colophon is still a Paris-German shop object with a pupil-patron’s name on the title page.

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Why it matters

High confidence on 1845. Modest weight. Op.

58 on 1845-01-01. Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

Who was responsible

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  • Frédéric Chopin

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    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.32 · verified

    He wrote and released the B minor sonata as a four-movement public score. Publishers issued it. Complex author, not Beethoven’s heir by statute.

What changed

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    1. FactChopin publishes Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58
    2. strengthensDriverPersonal-Data Protection

    impact weight 0.35 · Effect from 1 January 1845 · verified

Evidence

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Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.IMSLP — Chopin printed editionsInternational Music Score Library Project · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.BnF data — Frédéric ChopinBibliothèque nationale de France · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

BnF data and catalogues identify the Paris impression of Op. 58. IMSLP independently reproduces nineteenth-century plates of the B minor sonata. Official: https://data.bnf.fr/en/13892479/frederic_chopin/ (opens in a new tab). Independent: https://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Chopin,_Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric (opens in a new tab). The records establish opus and year. They do not establish a unique later sonata-recital attendance series, nor a claim that Op. 35’s funeral march is hidden inside this B minor print, nor a measured conservatory reform in 1845.

Established: Op. 58 was published in 1845 as Chopin’s B minor sonata. Not established: that it displaced Beethoven in conservatories that year, or that Op. 35 is this print. A contradictory first issue year would change the row.

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Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Op. 58 is not Op. 35. Mixed effects of Chopin publishes Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58 are separate paths.

Shared responsibility is part of Chopin publishes Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58. Naming Frédéric Chopin does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1845-01-01 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.

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  1. ActorFrédéric Chopin
  2. contributed toFactChopin publishes Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58
  3. strengthensDriverPersonal-Data Protection

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Factrail. (2026). Chopin publishes Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/ch-sonata-op58-1845

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Accessed 16 October 2026.

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