What is the reference of Butterfly Etude by Chopin

[Mareva]

:'(I am hardly looking for the exactly reference of Butterfly Etude by Chopin do you know this one?
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[rachlisztchopin]

what?

[faulty_damper]

You mean you are looking for why the etude is titled "butterfly"?

If so, I have no idea.  I've never even heard of the piece.

[Shagdac]

Chopin's Etude, Op. 25 #9, I believe this was one of the 12 etudes dedicated to Madame the Countess d'Agoult.
From what I could find, although known as "The Butterfly", Chopin gave it no name. Perhaps its graceful right-hand flutterings suggested to someone sunlight flashing on the iridescent wings of certain diurnal insects.  In any case a pianist faces the problem of flicking from his wrist a broken chord and two leggiero octaves on every beat (excet two-when his musical lepidopteran alights ever so delicately, one imagines, on a flower).  With the main technical problem of this short etude being the alternation of legato and staccato in one hand, good wrist octaves and endurance are necessary.  Hope this helps.

Shag

[comme_le_vent]

if you want to know where to find the sheet music -

https://www.sheetmusicarchive.net/single_listing.cfm?composer_id=4

[cziffra]

did anyone else notice the unnerving similarity in this piece to one of the beethoven sonatas?

[sentimaple]

Beethoven's Sonata Op. 79, last movement