The tempo marking Chopin couldn’t write: "unroll like a ball of yarn" 👀
Wilhelm von Lenz, a Baltic German Russian diplomat and author who studied with Chopin in the 1840s, reported that the beginning of the Waltz in D-flat Major, Op. 64, No. 1, according to Chopin, “should unroll like a ball of yarn.”
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