Chopin Étude Op. 10, No. 1
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| Étude No. 1 | |
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| Composition by Frédéric Chopin | |
| Alternate name: | Waterfall, Staircase |
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| Form: | Étude |
| Key/Time signature: | C major, 4/4 |
| Tempo | Allegro |
| Date of composition: | 1830 |
| Composition number: | Op. 10 No. 1 |
Étude Op. 10, No.1 in C major, composed by Frédéric Chopin, is a technical study in reach and arpeggios for the piano. It was composed in 1829, and first published in 1833, in France, Germany, and England. In a prefatory note to the 1916 Schirmer edition the American music critic James Huneker (1860-1921) compared the "hypnotic charm" that these "dizzy acclivities and descents exercise for eye as well as ear" to the frightening staircases in Giovanni Battista Piranesi's prints of the Carceri d'invenzione.
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[edit] Structure
The work is executed at an Allegro tempo. The time-signature Common time is according to the first French, English, and German editions. Chopin's own manuscript reads Cut time.[1]
The right hand gauntlet consists entirely of broad arpeggios in semiquavers on modulating scales. The left hand plays the deep melody in slow, droning octaves.
[edit] Recordings
- Étude No.1 (file info) — play in browser (beta)
- Martha Goldstein playing on an Erard (1851) - 2.23 MB
- Étude No.1 (file info) — play in browser (beta)
- Performed by Kristian Cvetkovic - 4.39 MB
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[edit] Variations
Leopold Godowsky transcribed a diatonic and single-hand version of this Étude in his 53 Studies on Chopin's Études. The second version was played entirely with a pianist's left hand, and was in D-flat major.[2]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Palmer, W: Chopin Etudes for the Piano, page 29. Alfred Publishing Co., Inc., 1992
- ^ Godowsky - Studies on Chopin's Etudes. February 2, 2007.
[edit] External Links
List of compositions by Frédéric Chopin • About the Chopin Études |
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