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Romantic piano
Eight short pieces from Schubert to Brahms, each holding one mood.
Schubert → Mendelssohn → Chopin → Schumann → Liszt → Rachmaninoff → Brahms
Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23
This guide follows Chopin’s Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23 (1835) in one part.
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A slow opens on a Neapolitan chord, a majestic and unexpected A-flat harmony. The settles into G minor, and after an the enters softly in E-flat major. Both themes then , transformed: the first, then the second, with a new after them. In the final the order is reversed, with the first and the after it. The , , rushes to the end.
Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.
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