Par CHOPIN FREDERIC. Les musiques de Nuit instrumentales du XVIIIo siècle, destinées à être jouées en plein air, sont à l'origine du Nocturne. Mozart et Haydn ont composé des 'Notturni' pour divers ensembles. Cependant, John Field est considéré comme le créateur du Nocturne pour piano. Chopin le tenait en grande estime et faisait souvent travailler à ses élèves les Nocturnes de ce pianiste et compositeur irlandais au même titre que les siens pour qu'ils se familiarisent avec le 'legato' et qu'ils acquièrent un beau son. Frédéric Chopin compose 21 Nocturnes. L année de composition de chaque Nocturne ne peut pas toujours être certifiée avec précision mais celle de leur publication est une référence exacte. Trois Nocturnes ont été édités après sa mort. Chopin a l'âme romantique et la musique de ses Nocturnes en exprime les états. L'ambiance crépusculaire est en effet propice aux tendres épanchements, à la mélancolie, aux improvisations poétiques et musicales, comme le dialogue de la Muse et du Poète dans la 'Nuit de Mai' d'Alfred de Musset. Tout en conservant une forme classique (forme Lied A.B.A. généralement), Chopin s'éloigne de la romance et sublimise le Nocturne par son inspiration et son sens pianistique: la mélodie, influencée par le 'bel canto' italien est plus ample et se développe en variations ornementales expressives, souvent chromatiques, l'harmonie est plus raffinée et plus audacieuse par ses dissonances et les dessins d'accompagnement de la basse en forme d'arpèges ou d'accords prisés sont plus ingénieux. Les Nocturnes de Chopin ont beaucoup contribué à sa célébrité et, malgré les difficultés techniques de certains, ils apparaissent comme une bonne introduction à la connaissance et à l'étude de ses autres oeuvres. Nouvelle Edition revue et corrigée (1993) sous la direction de Dominique Geoffroy. / Niveau : Intermédiaire / classique / Répertoire / Piano

Eighty-three best-loved works over 30 composers including Beethoven Chopin Brahms Mendelssohn Liszt and Paderewski. Edited by Ronald Herder.

Par CHOPIN FREDERIC. In 1845/46 Chopin composed his bel canto inspired “Barcarolle” in F-sharp major op. 60, which became a model for subsequent generations of composers. In his evaluation of the divergent and partly even contradictory sources – due to the different engraving models (Stichvorlagen) for the first editions published almost simultaneously in Paris, London, and Leipzig – the editor obtains new results and readings, especially regarding problematic passages. Chopin’s pedal indications from the other sources, which differ from the main source, are added in small print. Information on this is provided in the Critical Commentary, which also documents the numerous variants of the sources and editorial decisions. An informative preface (Ger/Eng) discusses the genesis of the work and Chopin’s specific understanding of the final shape of his works. Hardy Rittner supplements Chopin’s fingering from a historically informed perspective. He gives in-depth advice on central questions of performance practice (including cantilena style, rubato and pedal use) and discusses different interpretational approaches (Ger/Eng). Practical page turns (with fold-out page) and a reader-friendly engraving round off this new edition./ Répertoire / Piano

James Gibbon Huneker (1857-1921) was a distinguished American newspaper critic, an essayist, and a prolific author. His writing style is remarkable ? unrestrained, informal, full of brilliant insight ? and this style plus Huneker's wide knowledge of art and literature as well as music has kept his literacy work alive. Chopin: The Man and His Music reflects the intimate, thorough knowledge of Chopin's music that Huneker acquired while studying to be a concert pianist and his unusually keen insight into the character of the great Polish composer whose music he adored. The book is divided into two parts. The first treats Chopin's life ? his youth in Poland, his emigration to Paris, the famous George Sand episode, his sickness and death ? and comments on Chopin as a teacher and as a pianist and performer. The second part discusses the entire body of Chopin's music, piece by piece. Huneker notes his own overall impression of the individual compositions as well as the impressions of Schumann, George Sand, Chopin's biographer Frederick Niecks, many of the great pianists, and others. He directly compares differing editions of Chopin's Études, Preludes, Nocturnes, Mazurkas, Polonaises, Sonatas, and other works edited by von Bülow, Kullak, Riemann, Mikuli, and Godowsky in their detailed treatment of fingering, phrasing, pedaling, tempo indication, and so forth. Huneker's entire work is reprinted here unchanged, thoroughly edited in running footnotes by Herbert Weinstock to correct the exuberant Huneker's inaccuracies and to add information that modern musical scholarship has unearthed. Weinstock has also provided an engrossing introductory essay on Huneker, and has amplified the bibliography to include modern books and articles on Chopin. A classic in musical biography and commentary, this work is unsurpassed for sympathetic understanding and insight into Chopin's life and music. It will interest equally music students, pianists, and music lovers.

La genèse de Chopin Polonaise brillante opus 22 conduit à sa jeunesse à Varsovie et à des années de ses premiers voyages comme un virtuose. Conçu comme un morceau de concert avec orchestre, il occupe une place particulière parmi les compositions polonaise de Chopin. Toutefois, selon la tradition, le travail a toujours été interprétée comme un morceau solo extrêmement efficace. Puisque aucun autographe n'a survécu, les diverses épreuves premières sont utilisés comme sources. Des comparaisons montrent que la première édition anglaise doit reposer sur le manuscrit autographe de Chopin. La présente édition de nouvelle taux donc cette édition anglaise plus fortement que d'habitude. Ainsi, les nombreux écarts et omissions dans l'édition définitive française qui est généralement considérée comme la plus importante source peuvent être clarifiées et complétées. Les notes sur l'interprétation, non seulement expliquent le terme relativement rare ' spianato ', mais aussi fourniraient des renseignements sur la façon de Chopin de jouer des trilles et appoggiaturas ainsi que le rubato de tempo de Chopin. Pour cela, sou... / Piano / Partition

as Narrative of National Martyrdom-Chopin's Second Ballade Op. 38 is frequently performed and takes only seven or so minutes to play. Yet the work remains very poorly understood—disagreement prevails on issues from its tonic and two-key structure to its posited relationship with the poems of Adam Mickiewicz. Chopin's Polish Ballade is a reexamination and close analysis of this famous work revealing the Ballade as a piece with a powerful political story to tell. Through the general musical styles and specific references in the Ballade which use both operatic strategies and approaches developed in programmatic piano pieces for amateurs author Jonathan Bellman traces aclear narrative thread to contemporary French operas. His careful historical exegesis of previously ignored musical and cultural contexts brings to light a host of new insights about this remarkable piece which as Bellman shows reflects the cultural preoccupations of the Polish émigrés in mid-1830s Paris pining with bitter nostalgia for a homeland now under Russian domination.This vital connection to the extramusical culture of its day forms the basis for a plausible relationship with the nationalistic poetry of Mickiewicz. Chopin's Polish Ballade also solves the long-standing conundrum of the two extant versions of the Ballade making an important point about the flexible notion of 'work' that Chopin embraced.

Hardly any cycle of Piano pieces can match the magnetic attraction of Chopin?s ?24 Préludes? published in 1839. Schumann called them ?sketches beginnings of études [...] ruins stray eagle's pinions all disorder and wild confusion?.Christoph Flamm has critically reevaluated the sources bringing to light new readings of this well-known musical text. Hardy Rittner a hammerklavier specialist and two-time winner of the ECHO Classic prize who has recorded Brahms? Piano music and all of Chopin?s ?Études? on period pianofortes has supplemented Chopin?s fingering from a historically informed perspective. He also providesvaluable notes on performance practice especially with regard to pedalling rubato latent polyphony legato and Chopin?s perception of sound.An aesthetically presented engraving and practical page-turns make this current edition indispensable for today?s scholars and performers.Urtext edition with new readings.Notes on performance practice (Ger/Eng).With historically informed fingering and practical page-turns.Informative Foreword (Ger/Eng) and detailed Critical Commentary (Eng).

The Nocturne In E Minor Op. Post.72 No.1 was Frédéric Chopin?s first Nocturne to be written and his 19th to be published. The Nocturne was composed in 1827 and was published after Chopin?sdeath in 1855.In his book The Life and Death of Chopin Casimir Wierzyknski explains more about the history of the piece:?Up until then this form [the nocturne] had been the exclusive domain of John Field anIrish-born composer. But his Nocturne in E minor did not satisfy him [Chopin] and was published only posthumously.?This Henle Urtext Edition for solo Piano has been edited by Ewald Zimmermann and includes fingering byHans-Martin Theopold.

Frédéric Chopin's 24 Préludes were created successively between 1836 and 1839; it was only in the fair copy of 1839 that they were compiled as a cycle - virtually following the example of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. Unlike with Bach however Chopin's Préludes are not followed by fugues as they themselves have mutated into romantic character pieces which express a range of very different moods. The technically easier ones of these miniatures are perfect as an introduction to playing Chopin all the more so since they include the probably most famous piece of the cycle the so-called 'Raindrop'Prélude. Intended to provide both students and music lovers with an inspiring access to the tonal world of Chopin the present edition of selected pieces of the Wiener Urtext Edition has been designed accordingly.

Chopin ?crivit ses concertos pour piano vers 1829/1830. Ils constituent en quelque sorte ? la fois le point culminant et la fin de sa p?riode ?tudiante ? Varsovie. Les deux concertos sont des chefs-d??uvre pr?coces avec lesquels Chopin connut un grand succ?s lors de ses premi?res tourn?es de concert ? l??tranger. Leur popularit? reste d?ailleurs enti?re jusqu?? ce jour. L??tat des sources relatives au concerto en mi mineur est clair. Quasiment aucun mat?riel autographe n?a ?t? conserv?. En cons?quence l??dition urtext de la partie de soliste parue chez Henle s?appuie sur la premi?re ?dition de 1833 initi?e par Chopin. La r?duction pour piano des parties orchestrales se fondesur le mat?riel issu de l?entourage de Chopin ? l??dition Henle permet ainsi une ?tude authentique de cette pi?ce ma?tresse du r?pertoire des concertos pour piano!

La vision multiculturelle de A, Mashayekhi est fondée sur une large variété d'approches, Dans cette oeuvre, il utilise des citations issues de sa propre musique ou de pièces de F, Chopin, modifiant parfois la musique de ce dernier avec des réminiscences de ses oeuvres personnelles et vice versa, Avec Chopin commence par des arpèges atonaux d'où se dégage la Valse en la mineur de Chopin, toutefois écrite dans le style de A, Mashayekhi, qui évolue alors vers les accords conclusifs de la pièce, Dans cette pièce nous entendons des phrases issues des Valses en la mineur, mi mineur et de la Balade en ut mineur de F, Chopin, Les compositions de A, Mashayekhi citées sont : Sonate I, Kristall I et Etude No15, / Piano

Chopin Gold (CD Edition)-The new CD edition of The Easy Piano Collection: Chopin Gold features a fine selection of the most famous masterpieces by Frederic Chopin. Every piece has been composed for or arranged for easy Piano and allaccompanied by high quality demonstration performances on a specially commissioned music CD.Learning to play these classic compositions has never been easier to do.These books use the same notation as CarolBarratt’s Classic Piano Course and are presented in a brand new easy-to-read style complete with fingerings and detailed composer biographies.Suitable for pianists between Grade 1-3 standard.

This superbly edited selection of nearly three hundred of Chopin's letters the first to be published in English vividly reveals the composer as man and artist. The tone of the letters is exuberantly engaging. Their contents offer rare glimpses into Chopin's childhood environment his mind and character his tragic love for George Sand the origins of many of his compositions the various musical influences which shaped his creative ideas and habits and the artistic circles in which he moved.Chopin’s Letter have been collected by Henryk Opienski and translated with preface and editorial notes by E.L. Voynich.