Piano, 4-hands - Digital Download SKU: BQ.979-0-50179-092-0 Composed by Ferdinand Ries. Edited by Stephen Begley. This edition: softcover. Bisel Classics. Score. With Text Language: English / German. Opus 41. 26 pages. Published by Bisel Classics - Digital (BQ.979-0-50179-092-0). ISBN 9790501790920.In the years between 1809 and 1813 Ferdinand Ries had an almost unbroken schedule of concerts and touring and this piece, a polonaise in the brilliant style was one of the works to emerge from this period of success. Composed at a time of great turbulence within the arts the polonaise had rapidly outgrown its earlier processional origins to become one of the most popular light forms of the age.