Studies on Chopin's Études

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The Studies on Chopin's Études, by Leopold Godowsky, is a set of 53 arrangements of Chopin's études. (There are actually 54, with Op. 25, No. 2 having two versions written on the same page). They are renowned for their technical difficulty: critic Harold C. Schonberg called them "the most impossibly difficult things ever written for the piano." Several of the studies (for example, the study "Ignus Fatuus" on Chopin's Étude in A minor, Op. 10, No. 2) put the original right-hand part into the left hand; several others are for the left hand alone (for example, the study on the "Revolutionary" Étude, transposed to C-sharp minor). Several of the studies even combine two études; the most well known of these, called "Badinage," combines both the G-flat (the "Black Key" Étude of Op. 10 and the "Butterfly" étude of Op. 25).

Contents 1 The Studies 1.1 Opus 10 1.2 Opus 25 1.3 Trois Nouvelles Études 2 External links

[edit] The Studies

[edit] Opus 10

Opus 10 No. 1

• 1st Study in C major
• 2nd Study in D-flat major (left hand only)

Opus 10 No. 2

• 1st Study in A minor (left hand only)
• 2nd Study in A minor ("Ignus Fatuus")

Opus 10 No. 3

• Study in D-flat major (left hand only)

Opus 10 No. 4

• Study in C-sharp minor (left hand only)

Opus 10 No. 5

• 1st Study in G-flat major
• 2nd Study in C major
• 3rd Study in A minor ("Tarantella")
• 4th Study in A major ("Capriccio")
• 5th Study in G-flat major
• 6th Study in G-flat major
• 7th Study in G-flat major (left hand only)
• This étude was also combined with the Opus 25 No. 9 étude in the "Badinage" composition.

Opus 10 No. 6

• Study in E-flat minor (left hand only)

Opus 10 No. 7

• 1st Study in C major ("Toccata")
• 2nd Study in G-flat major ("Nocturne")
• 3rd Study in E-flat major (left hand only)

Opus 10 No. 8

• 1st Study in F major
• 2nd Study in G-flat major (left hand only)

Opus 10 No. 9

• 1st Study in C-sharp minor
• 2nd Study in F minor (imitation of Opus 25 No. 2)
• 3rd Study in F-sharp minor (left hand only)

Opus 10 No. 10

• 1st Study in D major
• 2nd Study in A-flat major (left hand only)

Opus 10 No. 11

• Study in A major (left hand only)
• This étude was also combined with the Opus 25 No. 3 étude.

Opus 10 No. 12

• Study in C-sharp minor

[edit] Opus 25

Opus 25 No. 1

• 1st Study in A-flat major (left hand only)
• 2nd Study in A-flat major (Like a piece for four hands)
• 3rd Study in A-flat major

Opus 25 No. 2

• 1st Study in F minor
• 2nd Study in F minor ("Waltz")
• 3rd Study (A) in F minor
• 3rd Study (B) in F minor
• 4th Study in F-sharp minor (left hand only)
• This étude was also imitated in one of the Opus 10 No. 9 studies.

Opus 25 No. 3

• 1st Study in F major
• 2nd Study in F major (left hand only)
• This étude was also combined with the Opus 10 No. 11 étude

Opus 25 No. 4

• 1st Study in A minor (left hand only)
• 2nd Study in F minor ("Polonaise")

Opus 25 No. 5

• 1st Study in E minor
• 2nd Study in C-sharp minor ("Mazurka")
• 3rd Study in B-flat minor (left hand only)

Opus 25 No. 6

• Study in G-sharp minor

Opus 25 No. 7

There are no studies of this étude in the collection.

Opus 25 No. 8

• Study in D-flat major

Opus 25 No. 9

• 1st Study in G-flat major
• 2nd Study in G-flat major (left hand only)
• This étude was also combined with the Opus 10 No. 5 étude in the "Badinage" composition.

Opus 25 No. 10

• Study in B minor (left hand only)

Opus 25 No. 11

• Study in A minor

Opus 25 No. 12

• Study in C-sharp minor (left hand only)

[edit] Trois Nouvelles Études

Nouvelle Étude No. 1

• Study in F minor (left hand only)

Nouvelle Étude No. 2

• 1st Study in E major
• 2nd Study in D-flat major (left hand only)

Nouvelle Étude No. 3

• Study in G major ("Menuetto")

[edit] External links

• Studies on Chopin's Etudes: Free scores at the International Music Score Library Project.