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Frédéric Chopin: Etudes Chopin’s Études represent something quite new in the tradition of writing studies for the development of piano technique.
Just as his predecessors in the genre, Chopin concentrates on a particular problem in each of his studies, but the extremely advanced technical skills needed to master these pieces becomes secondary to the musical satisfaction they give as concert pieces, invested as they are with the utmost creative power and poetry.
The first set (Op. 10) is dedicated to Franz Liszt, about whom Chopin reportedly said with regard to the études: “I wish I could steal from him the way he plays them.”
The final three studies, without Opus number, were composed as part of a series called "Méthode des méthodes de piano" compiled by Moscheles and Fétis.
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 Need a suggestion to learn a new Chopin's Etude....
June 04, 2009, 09:21:49 AM by go12_3
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Hello there!
I have been working on Etude 10/1 and 25/8, and pretty well got those down, you know the fingering and playing HT. I'm at the point I need some suggestions on another Etude by some fine pianists in the forum. I have small hands with an octave reach. I don't have the time to look through the entire Etude book either. I'd like something easier than the ones I have been working on.....thank you! 
best wishes,
go12_3
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Chopin etude played in a very stiff piano?
May 31, 2009, 08:18:35 AM by winterwind888
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Had anyone played a chopin etude on a very stiff piano. Well, most of us do play in a light-weighted keys of a piano. But is there anyone who attempted such as Chromatic Etude or Winterwind etude or even my god, the thirds etude, to be played on a very stiff piano, the keys that needs to be pressed by the fingers very hard? Or even liszt, debussy or rachmaninoff etudes? Is there anyone?
How was your experience on this attempt. And by the way, why is still a piano such as a very weighted one created? Any idea?
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The 3 most difficult chopin etudes?
May 30, 2009, 06:17:28 AM by winterwind888
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For you what could be the most difficult etude chopin had created?
For me. Somewhere in his last 3 etudes, Octaves, Winterwind and Ocean.
Octaves etude needs you to pick up a note on the middle finger while making continuous octaves.
Winterwind etude... hmm... make chromatic scales every 2nd note on the 3rd 4th or 5th fingers while the 1st and 2nd finger descends down on the keyboard.
Ocean etude, you would really need exchange the key places on the 1st and 5th fingers. That really could be tiring. And you play about rapid sixteenth notes that are far and your finger jump on the keyboard.
Thirds is also difficult.
For you?
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