Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Étude Op. 25, No. 11 in A minor, often referred to as Winter Wind in English, is a solo piano technical study composed by Frédéric Chopin in 1836. It was first published together with all études of Opus 25 in 1837, in France, Germany, and England.
Many classical compositions belong to a numbered series of works of a similar type by the same composer. For example, Beethoven wrote 9 symphonies, 10 violin sonatas, 32 piano sonatas, 5 piano concertos, 16 string quartets, 7 piano trios and other works, all of which are numbered sequentially within their genres and generally referred to by their sequence numbers, keys and opus numbers.
Chopin at 25, by his fiancée Maria Wodzińska, 1835. The Études by Frédéric Chopin are three sets of études (solo studies) for the piano published during the 1830s. There are twenty-seven compositions overall, comprising two separate collections of twelve, numbered Op. 10 and Op. 25, and a set of three without opus number.
You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work; Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.
Winter wind, winds of winter, or variation, may refer to: Winter Wind (classical music), Étude Op. 25, No. 11 by Chopin; Winter Winds, 2002 album by Mickey Newbury "Winter Winds", 2009 single by Mumford & Sons "Winterwind", song off the 2010 LP Blood Under the Bridge by Bottomless Pit; Die winterwind (poem), a poem by Sydney Vernon Petersen
In Chopin's funeral march, the central section in a major mode trio presents a theme that is not only complete, but that can be counted among the melodic peaks reached by the author in all of his production. In Chopin the funeral march abdicates public solemnity to include a moment of private meditation. [14] Compared to Beethoven, the heroic ...
Nicknames have been given to most of Chopin's Études over time, but Chopin himself never used nicknames for these pieces, nor did he name them. Op. 10, 12 Études: Étude in C major (1830) Étude in A minor (1830) Étude in E major (1832) Étude in C ♯ minor (1832) Étude in G ♭ major (1830) Étude in E ♭ minor (1830) Étude in C major ...
Chopin's 24 Preludes, Op. 28, are a set of short pieces for the piano, one in each of the twenty-four keys, originally published in 1839. Chopin wrote them between 1835 and 1839, mostly in Paris, but partially at Valldemossa, Mallorca, where he spent the winter of 1838–39 and where he, George Sand, and her children went to escape the damp Paris weather. [1]