Chopin - ballade no.1 in G minor - Classical Music - 8:24 - Ballade No. 1 in G minor Opus 23 is the first of Polish composer Frédéric Chopin's four ballades for piano solo composed in 1835-36 featured in the 2002 Roman Polanski film The Pianist, also the 1944 film Gaslight and the 2006 satire Thank You for Smoking