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Topic: Chopin etudes, which is harder?  (Read 7864 times)

Offline johnjwong

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Re: Chopin etudes, which is harder?
Reply #50 on: August 25, 2004, 04:05:41 PM
https://www.chopinfiles.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=963
https://www.chanrupert.com/php/viewtopic.php?t=1249

look, many people are debating this topic in other forums

We are not alone!!
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Offline liszmaninopin

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Re: Chopin etudes, which is harder?
Reply #51 on: August 25, 2004, 05:40:46 PM
My vote for the hardest etudes is a group.  Depending upon one's technique, one may be more difficult than the others, but I consider these the most generally difficult Chopin etudes:

op. 10 #1,2
op. 25 # 4,6,11,12
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Offline Terry-Piano

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Re: Chopin etudes, which is harder?
Reply #52 on: August 30, 2004, 04:12:39 AM
and what about Cortot's rendition of the etudes... I think he really knows these pieces.... I've heard many people play them... but Cortot really impresses me
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