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Chopin, Frederic : 12 études　Etude No.4 cis-moll Op.10-4

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Music ID : 20769
Instrumentation：Piano Solo　
Genre：etude
Total Playing Time：2 min 00 sec
Copyright：Public Domain
etude
Piano Solo
piano solo
cis moll

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Author : Imazeki, Shiori

Last Updated: August 7, 2019
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Note: This article is automatically translated from the original Japanese text. The author of the original work did not supervise this translation.

Composed in August 1832.

While No. 3 is dominated by a calm and beautiful melody except for its middle section, No. 4 is fierce and passionate. The opening anacrusis begins with a dominant chord, resolving to the tonic chord on the first beat of the first measure before unfolding.

This piece serves as practice for sixteenth-note passagework requiring precise articulation. It is composed using the technique of "Fortspinnung" (spinning out), where short motives are varied in pitch and key, and inverted. This technique was frequently employed during the Baroque era, when Bach was active. For example, the intricate sixteenth-note figure in the right hand appearing in measures 1-2, followed by a leaping figure (measure 3), is repeated by the left hand with altered pitches in measures 5-7.

Writer: Imazeki, Shiori

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