Synopses & Reviews
Among the best-loved and most performed of Chopin's piano compositions are his mazurkas. This volume includes 51 works — remarkable for their wide emotional appeal, advanced choromatic techniques and pianistic devices, and ranging in difficulty from relatively easy, for advanced beginnings, to quite challenging, for the accomplished pianist.Edited by Carl Mikuli, a pupil of Chopin, the works in this inexpensive and attractive volume extend from the radiant joyfulness of the Mazurka in B-flat major, Op. 7, No. 1, to the aching sadness of the Mazurka in A minor, Op. 17, No. 4, and from the brevity of the Mazurka in E-flat minor, Op. 6, No. 4, to the breadth of the C-sharp minor Mazurka, Op. 50, No. 3.Pianists and music lovers will welcome this attractive, sturdy volume reproduced directly from the authoritative Kistner edition. It comprises a treasury of Chopin's most characteristic and appealing works in one convenient, inexpensive source.
Synopsis
Features 51 best-loved compositions, reproduced directly from the authoritative Kistner edition edited by Carl Mikuli, a pupil of Chopin. Editor's Foreword, 1879.
Synopsis
Features 51 best-loved compositions, reproduced directly from the authoritative Kistner edition edited by Carl Mikuli, a pupil of Chopin. Editor's Foreword, 1879.
About the Author
One of the great masters of Romanticism, Frédéric Chopin (1810-49) was a former child prodigy pianist who wrote many technically demanding solo piano works and introduced major innovations to the sonata, waltz, nocturne, and other forms.
Table of Contents
1. F # minor
Op. 6 No. 1
2. Sotto voce. C# minor
Op. 6 No. 2
3. Vivace. E major
Op. 6 No. 3
4. Presto ma non troppo. E-flat minor
Op. 6 No. 4
5. Vivace. B-flat major
Op. 7 No. 1
6. Vivo ma non troppo. A minor
Op. 7 No. 2
7. Sotto voce. F minor
Op. 7 No. 3
8. Presto ma non troppo. A-flat major
Op. 7 No. 4
9. Vivo. C major
Op. 7 No. 5
10. Vivo e risluto. B-flat major
Op. 17 No. 1
11. Lento ma non troppo. E minor
Op. 17 No. 2
12. Legato assai. A-flat major
Op. 17 No. 3
13. Lento ma non troppo. A minor
Op. 17 No. 4
14. Lento. G minor
Op. 24 No. 1
15. Allegro non troppo. C minor
Op. 24 No. 2
16. Moderato con anima. A-flat major
Op. 24 No. 3
17. Moderato. B-flat major
Op. 24 No. 4
18. Allegro non tanto. C minor
Op. 30 No. 1
19. Allegretto. B minor
Op. 30 No. 2
20. Allegro non troppo. D-flat major
Op. 30 No. 3
21. Allegretto. C# major
Op. 30 No. 4
22. Mesto. G# minor
Op. 33 No. 1
23. Vivace. D major
Op. 33 No. 2
24. Simplace. C major
Op. 33 No. 3
25. Mesto. B minor
Op. 33. No.4
26. Maestoso. C# minor
Op. 41 No. 1
27. Andantino. E minor
Op. 41 No. 2
28. Animato. B major
Op. 41 No. 3
29. Allegretto. A-flat major
Op. 41 No. 4
30. Vivace. G major
Op. 50 No.1
31. Allegretto. A-flat major
Op. 50 No.2
32. Moderato. C# minor
Op. 50 No.3
33. Allegro non tanto. B major
Op. 56 No. 1
34. Vivace. C Major
Op. 56 No. 2
35. Moderato. C minor
Op. 56 No. 3
36. Moderato. A minor
Op. 59 No. 1
37. Allegretto. A-flat major
Op. 59 No. 2
38. Vivace. F# minor
Op. 59 No. 3
39. Vivace. B major
Op. 63 No. 1
40. Lento. F minor
Op. 63 No. 2
41. Allegretto. C# minor
Op. 63 No. 3
42. Vivace. G major
Op. 67 No. 1
43. Cantabile. G minor
Op. 67 No. 2
44. Allegretto C major
Op. 67 No. 3
45. Moderato animato. A minor
Op. 67 No. 4
46. Vivace. C Major
Op. 68 No. 1
47. Lento. A minor
Op. 68 No. 2
48. Allegro ma non troppo. F major
Op. 68 No. 3
49. Andantino. F minor
Op. 68 No. 4
50. Allegretto. A minor
51. Allegretto. A minor