The abridged piano Polonaise in A major, Op. 40 №1 by Frédéric Chopin.
Tradition has it that Chopin imagined the A major Polonaise functioning as a coronation polonaise. It bears the character of heroic military music, evoking for many interpreters the sounds of a snare drum in a festive parade or a royal ceremony.
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