Piano Trio (Chopin)
The Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello, Op. 8, is a composition in G minor composed by Frédéric Chopin and dedicated to Antoni Radziwiłł. It has four movements:
- Allegro con fuoco
- Scherzo
- Adagio sostenuto
- Finale: Allegretto
The piece has established itself as a core member of the piano trio repertoire. In a letter to his friend Tytus Woyciechowski dated 31 August 1830,[1] Chopin speculates whether he should have written the violin line for viola, believing that the viola's timbre would "accord better with the cello". Emanuel Ax is of the opinion that it is perhaps fortunate that Chopin scored the work for a standard piano trio, since so few trios with viola exist.
A typical performance lasts approximately 25 minutes.
References
- ↑ letter no. 63 in the new edition of Fryderyk Chopin’s Correspondence, edited by Zofia Helman, Zbigniew Skowron, and Hanna Wroblewska-Strauss, University of Warsaw, 2010
External links
- Piano Trio: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project