[1] It was the second of his four rondos, and is dedicated to the Countess Alexandrine de Moriolles, the daughter of the Count de Moriolles, who was the tutor to the adopted son of the Grand Duke Constantine, Governor of Warsaw.
It is a bravura piece, and technically more assured than his Opus 1, the Rondo in C minor.
His teacher Józef Elsner had also written two rondos marked à la mazur, and they may have inspired the title, but Chopin's rondo displays none of Elsner's influence.
[4] The piece is notable for Chopin's very early use of the sharpened 4th degree characteristic of the Lydian mode.
[5] Robert Schumann first heard the Rondo à la mazur in 1836, and he called it "lovely, enthusiastic and full of grace.