Étude Op. 10, No. 5 (Chopin)
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Étude Op. 10, No. 5 in G♭ major is a study for solo piano composed by Frédéric Chopin in 1830. It was first published in 1833 in France, Germany, and England as the fifth piece of his Études Op. 10. T
Melodic reduction (in the style of a Scottish jig) after Leichtentritt (A section)
Arrangement in double notes by Gottfried Galston, 1910 (opening)
Clara Schumann
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Clara Josephine Schumann was a German virtuoso pianist, composer, and piano teacher. Regarded as one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era, she exerted her influence over the course o
Étude Op. 10, No. 5 (Chopin)
…did not believe the study to be his most interesting one, and in a letter to his pianist friend and musical executor Julian Fontana he comments on Clara Wieck’s performance: Did Wieck play my Étude well? How could she have chosen precisely this Étude, the least interesting for those who do not know that it…
Portrait by Franz Hanfstaengl, 1857
Clara Wieck, from an 1835 lithograph
1839 lithograph
Schönefeld church, where the Schumanns married on 12 September 1840