Etudes, Op.10
Étude · Op. 10
Frédéric Chopin 1810–1849
Étude
Form
Op. 10
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Themes & character
Dedicated to Liszt·Technique as music·Contains the Revolutionary·Written in his early twenties
At a glance
- Catalogue
- Op. 10
- Form
- Étude
About the piece
Twelve studies published in 1833 and dedicated "to my friend Franz Liszt." Chopin composed most of them before he turned twenty three, and they transformed what a study could be: each isolates a single technical problem, yet each is also a finished concert piece rather than an exercise.
The set includes the tender third etude, often called Tristesse, and closes with the twelfth in C minor, the Revolutionary, whose furious left-hand torrent has long been linked, on uncertain evidence, to Chopin's despair at the fall of Warsaw to Russian forces.
The composer
Frédéric Chopin
1810–1849
Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the early Romantic period who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leading composer of his era whose "poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation".
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