It is hypothesized that this portrayed Chopin's feelings toward the war, or told a story about rebellion in his homeland.
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Scherzo is "joke" in Italian, and Robert Schumann commented on the work's apparent disregard for its title: "How is 'gravity' to clothe itself if 'jest' goes about in dark veils?" It is dark, suspenseful, and full of chaos - the first clear melody is in the slow B major middle section, but returns to a chaotic murmur soon after. Chopin composed this piece and several of the Opus 10 etudes around the same time. Because of the struggle and the war, his compositions changed from pieces of a brilliant style to works in a new, darker tonality. During this time he only played one concert, where he performed his concerto in E minor. A friend of Chopin's, Thomas Albrecht, to whom it was dedicated, convinced him to stay in Vienna, away from his family in Poland, to build his musical career. This piece was written in 1831, during the November Uprising against the Russian Empire. Theodor Kullak in his 1882 edition added the comment: "most virtuosos execute this scale in octaves". Franz Liszt was reputedly the first to play it this way. The interlocking octaves were meant to be played at the same speed as the original chromatic scale. 1, Vladimir Horowitz famously duplicated the chromatic scale near the ending into interlocking octaves, a technique he often used as his signature on other pieces. After the resolution and a rapid chromatic ascent over four octaves in both hands, the piece comes to a despairing conclusion via a bold plagal cadence in the minor mode: very different in character from the plagal cadence for the "Amen" at the end of a hymn, which is invariably in major.
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This final section incorporates dizzying arpeggiated flights up and down almost the entire keyboard, suspended by a climactic series of nine ten-note chords (E ♯ diminished seventh (with diminished third), augmented sixth chord in root position, secondary leading-tone chord of tonic B). The lead-in to the dramatic, virtuosic coda is similar to the approach toward the Molto più lento, but slightly different (as it is with Chopin's Second and Third Scherzi). Then the beginning presto repeats itself in the familiar minor tonic. The two chords from the beginning reappear, superimposed over vestiges of the middle section.
The B major area dissolves as the harmony mysteriously changes character via secondary dominant. Chopin quotes here from an old Polish Christmas song (Lulajże Jezuniu) the tempo in this section is marked Molto più lento. Near the center of the piece, the music leads into a slower section in B major finally one hears a tangible melody in the middle register, surrounded by accompaniment in both the left and upper right hands. At tremendous speed, a series of dramatic outbursts in the B minor tonic follows. His works are mainstays of Romanticism in 19th-century classical music.This first Scherzo takes A-B-A-Coda form and begins with two chords in fortissimo. Chopin invented musical forms such as the ballade and was responsible for major innovations in forms such as the piano sonata, waltz, nocturne, étude, impromptu and prelude. Though technically demanding, Chopin's style emphasizes nuance and expressive depth rather than virtuosity. A Polish patriot,Ĭhopin's extant compositions were written primarily for the piano as a solo instrument. In Paris, he made a comfortable living as a composer and piano teacher, while giving few public performances. In November 1830, at the age of 20, Chopin went abroad following the suppression of the Polish November Uprising of 1830–31, he became one of many expatriates of the Polish "Great Emigration." He was born in the village of Żelazowa Wola, in the Duchy of Warsaw, to a Polish mother and French-expatriate father, and in his early life was regarded as a child-prodigy pianist. He is widely regarded as the greatest Polish composer, and ranks as one of music's greatest tone poets. 39 in C-Sharp Minor by Frédéric Chopin, completed in 1839, was written in the abandoned monastery of Valldemossa on the Balearic island of Majorca, Spain.The composition is dedicated to Adolphe Gutmann, one of Chopin’s favourite pupils, much to the indignation and envy of others, since in their opinion he was not exactly a shining talent.
Frédéric Chopin (1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period.