Tags: Classical Music Composition.
The Grand Duo concertant in E major B. 70 is a composition for piano and cello written jointly by Frédéric Chopin and Auguste Franchomme. It was written in 1832 and published in 1833.Chopin had initially been contracted by his publishers to write a work for piano based on Giacomo Meyerbeer’s opera Robert le diable. He had attended a performance and liked the work but was disinclined to write a fantasia (as he put it in a letter to his family) on another composer’s music.