Ex. 12-3: Moja pieszczotka
Frédéric Chopin
Key: G♭/E♭mTime: 3/4Polish Songs (Op.74)
No. 12 of Chopin's Polish Songs (Op. 74), composed in 1837 to a poem by Adam Mickiewicz (1798–1855), Poland's national poet. Mickiewicz was a personal acquaintance of Chopin.
Like most of Chopin's songs, it was published posthumously — collected by Julian Fontana and issued as part of Op. 74 in 1857. Franz Liszt transcribed this song for piano solo as No. 5 of his Six Chants polonais (S.480).