Chopin was different with Mozart or Schubert as in they composed in a facile manner while he composed two concertos for piano and orchestra, piano sonatas, polonaises, nocturnes, études, waltzes, mazurka, scherzos, ballades, rondos, impromptus, sets of variation, fantasia, recalled, bolero, tarantella, Polish songs for solo voice with piano accompaniment and preludes. Chopin earned the name ” The Poet of the Piano” for his contribution of 80 opuses to the instrument piano. Frederic Chopin is one of the most romantic figure since he was dreamy and tender as a man.
His character, of course, mirrors exactly in his compositions. In order to perform Chopping composition, one needs to appreciate his strange and wondrous loveliness. There are so many musician executing chopping works who gave up because they failed to deliver the sensitivity of Chopping music. As an example, his E minor Prelude got everything that amateur pianist needs to be good in their technique. Technique here does not mean a fast finger to play an accurate note with fast tempo but a technique to play a piece with a good tone quality and good phrasing.
It’s a short piece in enjoyable slow speed and has a superficially straightforward left-hand part, with a sad, singing melody line in the right. This tiny prelude is also a musical masterpiece of poetic expression and emotional intensification. Most of Chopping prelude are not difficult or big pieces in technical aspects but they are hard to play with sentimental as Chopping characteristic. Chopin never wrote a work of “programmatic music” in his life, a piece that tell a story or an image.
Yet his music, has been heard to incarnate everything from revolution to raindrops. He opened up worlds of pianist color and texture without tradition of Classicism. Without him, virtuosity could never have started. And yes, he was a miniaturist, but Chopin also created forms and structures such as the ballade, the scherzo, the hybrid fantasies and that are models of innovative musical architecture. Another REASON why Chopin was named “The Poet of the Piano” is through his wonderful playing in the drawing rooms of the French aristocracy.
The poetry of Chopping music was paramount which means a singing melody on the piano, unique rubout tempo and an agog accent rhythm. GAMBIA. List commented when he listened to Chopin works “a sort of rolling of melody, decanting it like a smooth little skiff above a tempestuous flood,” adding that it was impossible to grasp this “rocking mode” without frequently listening to the Master. Chopin did not like playing a languorous fortissimo but he attract people by an extremely colorful melodic line in music like how words flow in poems.
There is one series of Chopping composition that make people admit that he is the real poet of the piano which is his nocturnes. Nocturne is the collection of miniature musical masterpiece. No better way to bring peace to your soul than close your eyes and listen while the notes wash over you. Chopin nocturnes are the most lyrical and poetic works that make most of listener dissolved with their beauty. There are teen one Nocturnes by Chopin that are all very poetic and have a freedom feeling inside, he player can play with rubout, slows down and speeds up the tempo to bring the emotion out of the piece.
Rubout is very innovative at romantic period and it support a nocturnes’ dreamlike and shadowy sound. Most of the time, nocturnes are calm and thoughtful. However, nocturnes also have a short part of dramatic or passionate. Chopin nocturnes are a magical pieces and perfect examples of Chopping delicate and unique style of music but most of his works were short pieces but he could express a happy or sad, dramatic or dreamy tunes without restraint. Nocturne in C minor, Pop. 48, No. Was dedicated to Chopping favorite student, Laurel Duper.
The design and poetic contents of this nocturne make it the most important one that Chopin created. This nocturne is a tragic yet impressive masterpiece. It is one of the longest nocturne and one of the most dramatic. The first episode is “Lento” followed by “Pico pi; lento” with arpeggio and double octaves with accelerated towards the last passage with agitated. In this episode he constantly adding dynamic level to help the piece builds gradually to reach the climax of the piece in “Dipso movement”.
He use the rhythmic intensity to show the high point which is the most lyrical and poetic in the piece. E. G. 1 E. G. 2 From the picture e. G. 1, Chopin wrote the theme with simplicity compare to the picture e. G. 2 which he wrote it with impressive figuration for both left and right hands where the quavers triplet become the basic pulse for the left hand accompaniment and it retains the subdivision into groups of four semiquavers notes The combination between the two contrasting rhythmic create a rhythmic tension and increase the compact and broad texture.
If this nocturne were a drama, it can b depict in three scene since the nocturne itself is a A B A form. First scene should be introduce the main characters, second scene will be building action to lead it to a climax and the third scene will be concluding the act that continues climax, resolves conflicts and peaceful ending. This pop. 48 études represents a beginning from the common dad capo form in Chopping nocturne style. Beside Nocturne, the poetry element also exists in Chopping Etude, venturous Etude is a known for technical exercise.
Chopping etude is different from his predecessor, Czerny and Hanson. Everything that they wrote about this etude were fine except here are lacking in musical development since most of them are repetitions from patterns of the note. They have no natural musicality in it but Chopping études are special that he was the first to create the etude into an actual art form. There are twenty-seven études for piano that train different aspects. Each études have their own focus and also their own musical story to tell.
At first, this etude seems easy and simple but actually there is a beautiful but slightly gloomy melody with the slow chords as the accompaniment in both hands. In the middle section, there is a left hand semiquaver running notes that are not difficult at all after learning the angering that makes them substantially easier. This études are nothing compared to the runs found in some of Chopping works but one must not forget that Chopin is nicknamed as “the poet of the piano” and this etude is actually much more difficult to play in terms of the musicality, not the technique.
The first difficulty is that people always think that the melody is in the left hand only but it is actually in both hands. This etude is an exercise about a singing and delicate tone that a pianist must produce, not only the quality of each tone but also to master a phrasing for a satisfactory performance. This etude is not an etude to improve our technique but an etude to upgrade a pianist musicality and interpretation. Chopping music remains the most frequently played in history.
Almost every note he wrote is in the permanent repertoire. When the first notes of Chopin works sound through the concert hall, there is a sign of recognition. All of Chopin music own the possible expression and are all sung by him upon the piano. Chopping works does not tell stories or paint pictures. It is personal and expressive but it is still a pure art. Chopin leave us a bequest of the most beautiful music ever written. Evelyn Handsprings
