The second of the Opus 7 Mazurkas, composed in the key of A minor, brings music that is almost diametrically opposed to the music of the first. It is frail as a leaf, barely sketched, subtle and intimate. And at the same time graceful, maidenly naïve.In the trio, a rocking kujawiak melody can be heard (in A major), composed in a particularly ingenuous and harmonious manner. It was not all at once that the A minor Mazurka acquired the form familiar to us today. In the album of Elsner’s daughter, Emilia, an earlier version was found, possessing an initial ritornel in the key of A major, taken from the music of a band of rural players, to which Chopin wrote the word Duda [Bagpipes]. It is perhaps just as well that in the final version this imitative accent was left out.Author: Mieczysław TomaszewskiA series of programmes entitled ‘Fryderyk Chopin's Complete Works’Polish Radio 2