19, is a short piano work written by Frédéric Chopin in 1833 and published in 1834.
[citation needed] The work was dedicated to the Scottish-born but half-French Mademoiselle la Comtesse Émilie de Flahaut,[1] then aged only 14, and a pupil of Chopin's.
The apparent inspiration for the Boléro was Chopin's friendship with the French soprano Pauline Viardot, whose father, the famed Spanish tenor Manuel García, had introduced boleros to Paris by the time of Chopin's arrival there.
[3] His biographer Frederick Niecks speculated that it was inspired by the Bolero in Daniel Auber's La muette de Portici (1828).
[2] Despite the ostensibly Spanish flavour of the piece, it has been described as a polonaise in disguise, or a boléro à la polonaise,[4] as its rhythms are more redolent of the national dance of Chopin's homeland than anything Spanish.