86, WN 44, was composed by Frédéric Chopin as a gift to a friend, swiss pianist Pierre Etienne Wolff, professor of piano at the Geneva Conservatory.
[2] Mieczysław Tomaszewski in his description of the piece for the Frederick Chopin Institute speculates, without providing a source that the composition may have been intended for the Op.
[2] The composition is structured as a single movement marked Presto con leggierezza and takes around 40 to 50 seconds to perform.
Robert Cummings, writing for Allmusic.com describes the piece as being "buoyant and sunlit", terminology similar to Tomaszewski's description of the work as being "lively and airy".
[5][4] Robin Rausch, in her article on the manuscript held at the Library of Congress, describes the composition as being essentially an Album leaf, a piece written to be given to a friend with no intention of the work being published.