The Sonata no. 2 op. 35 in B flat minor is certainly the most famous of Frédéric Chopin's three sonatas: it was composed in 1839, "around" the third movement, the Funeral March, which had already been drafted in 1837, at the time of his stay in Nohant in the castle of her then partner George Sand. This famous Funeral March was performed together with other compositions by Chopin himself on the occasion of his funeral, as he himself requested. The funeral took place in Paris, at the Eglise de la ...