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presto agitato

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Brahms - Etude on an etude by Chopin

on: June 29, 2011, 11:57:14 PM

Did you know this piece?

This is by far one of the hardest pieces that Brahms wrote.
What do you think?

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Re: Brahms - Etude on an etude by Chopin

Reply #1 on: June 30, 2011, 12:11:53 AM

I love it!

Sounds incredibly difficult

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Reply #2 on: July 07, 2011, 11:05:08 PM

Just about the only thing that could sound as hard would be something by Saynt-Sayennes (to deliberately mispronounce the name just for fun).

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Reply #3 on: July 07, 2011, 11:13:39 PM

I wonder why this etude Brahms decided to arrange... and not one of the others.

But damn it was nice. Didn't know Brahms arranged any of Chopins Works.

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Re: Brahms - Etude on an etude by Chopin

Reply #4 on: July 12, 2011, 06:58:40 PM

What was Brahms favorite work of Chopin?
I'd like to know.

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Re: Brahms - Etude on an etude by Chopin

Reply #5 on: July 12, 2011, 08:18:48 PM

This piece can be found in the Brahms Klavierwerke part II from Peters and yes its hellish to play.

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Re: Brahms - Etude on an etude by Chopin

Reply #6 on: September 24, 2015, 04:26:13 AM

liszt would think that this was easy

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Re: Brahms - Etude on an etude by Chopin

Reply #7 on: September 24, 2015, 10:24:47 AM

Godowsky re-arranged almost all of Chopin Etudes. Hell difficult, too.

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Reply #8 on: July 31, 2016, 08:13:13 PM

I downloaded the music for this piece and I agree it is very difficult.I don't have a problem with playing the sixths but I cannot get near the speed required. I only started it a few weeks ago so I think I will be practicing it for the next few years.

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Re: Brahms - Etude on an etude by Chopin

Reply #9 on: July 31, 2016, 08:46:26 PM

Quote from: perfect_pitch on July 07, 2011, 11:13:39 PM

I wonder why this etude Brahms decided to arrange... and not one of the others.

But damn it was nice. Didn't know Brahms arranged any of Chopins Works.

Paraphrasing my liner notes of Martin Jones playing the complete piano music of Brahms on Nimbus records:

Brahms amused himself and sharpened his technique with keyboard transcriptions and reworkings of music by other composers. This Chopin reworking dates from 1852 (Brahms was 19, he wrote his first Sonata [op. 2 written before op. 1] shortly after this) and was designed as a brilliant leggiero study in 6ths for the RH. He did other reworkings where hands are reversed (a practice his teacher Marxen used). His arrangement from this same time of Schubert impromptu in E flat D899 No. 2 is an example of hands reversal (RH plays LH part, etc). Probably the most famous reworking is Bach Chaconne for LH alone that Brahms did many years later.

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