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Topic: Valse in E minor Op. Posth by Chopin (Read 6565 times)

nia_kurniati

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Valse in E minor Op. Posth by Chopin

on: April 14, 2008, 02:16:37 AM

Hallo, I need advice for the song besides that this is waltz song. Many thanks.

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remy

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Re: Valse in E minor Op. Posth by Chopin

Reply #1 on: April 14, 2008, 02:12:27 PM

Chopin wrote this wonderful Waltz when he was 19 years old.

I like to think that he wrote it in a fit of passion for somebody.

It seems to me that a tempo of mm=240 for the quarter note is about right. I've heard recordings as slow as mm=190 (way too slow, in my opinion).

In my head I hear the middle section as very playful, so that's the way I play it.

Many pianists accelerate on the last page; indeed, Rachmaninoff and Levitzki played the last page at nearly mm=300 or above. It's striking to hear, but mm=300 is beyond me.

Check out Dinu Lipatti's gorgeous recording.

I think the key to this Waltz is youthful passion.

remy

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