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What?! Op. 10 nos 9-10 don't get nicknames? This is an outrage!!
There can only be one twosome worthy of such elevated status.
Tweedledee and Tweedledum.
"I don't play accurately - anyone can play accurately - but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life."
It must be an Anglo-saxon thing, because apart from a few like the farewell or revolutionary, none of the others are frequently used in other countries.
It must be an Anglo-saxon thing, because apart from a few like the farewell or revolutionary, none of the others are frequently used in other countries.
Just because all of these nicknames are listed in a YouTube channel doesn’t mean they are commonly used.
"Music, rich, full of feeling, not soulless, is like a crystal on which the sun falls and brings forth from it a whole rainbow" - F. Chopin "I never dreamt with my own two hands I could touch the sky" - Sappho
Incidentally, Op.25/1 is the Aeolian Harp, but I guess Anglo-Saxons can't pronounce "Aeolian", not to mention don't know what it means.......
And it is one of only two Chopin études whose nickname is valid, because Schumann named it thus.
"I don't play accurately - anyone can play accurately - but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life."
"Music, rich, full of feeling, not soulless, is like a crystal on which the sun falls and brings forth from it a whole rainbow" - F. Chopin "I never dreamt with my own two hands I could touch the sky" - Sappho
Waterfall, Chromatic, Tristesse, Black Key, Revolutionary, Aeolian Harp, Thirds, Sixths, Octave, Butterfly, and Winter Wind.
If someone used one of those names before I read this thread, I would have known correctly which Etude was being referenced. Generally, I have not previously heard the other nicknames, maybe Torrent once or twice.
Waterfall, Chromatic, Tristesse, Black Key, Revolutionary, Aeolian Harp, Thirds, Sixths, Octave, Butterfly, and Winter Wind.
If someone used one of those names before I read this thread, I would have known correctly which Etude was being referenced. Generally, I have not previously heard the other nicknames, maybe Torrent once or twice.
Maybe "... or else I'll write another 10 etudes! Mwa ha ha ha!"
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Nickname-less notwithstanding, I find Op. 10 no. 9 to be one of the more poetic ones, don't you? Rather than a 'character piece' (that is, if Chopin at all had that in mind with the other etudes), it feels like with this one there is a narrative, there is something unfolding. The ending to me has a Scarbo-like quality of something vanishing into thin air (a sprite?)
The only nickname I had ever heard before I came the the US was Revolutionary and use of it was frowned upon because it's not Chopin's, just like all the others. I find all of the names extremely irritating and hate them with an intensity I cannot explain.
The first time I heard any of these names (except the Revolutionary) was when I came here to PW. I still don't know which one people are talking about most of the time. Irritating? Definitely.
I find all of the names extremely irritating and hate them with an intensity I cannot explain.
I don't understand this hate. The purpose of the names is for communication. I don't necessarily remember the opus numbers by heart but if someone mentions the Winter Wind Etude I know immediately which one they are talking about. At least the common nicknames are totally fine by me.