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Etude in C-sharp minor, Op. 10 No. 4

18322 min

This guide follows Chopin’s Etude in C-sharp minor, Op. 10 No. 4 (1832) in one part.

Recording: Evgeny Kissin (piano)

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Follow all 4 sections as they play

0:00–1:47

A: after a sharp accent (a sforzato), the hands each other in four- units, passing the same sixteenth-note figure back and forth. B: the sequences shorten to two and accents come more often, so the pressure rises with each change of harmony. A′: the opening at the loudest level, marked fff. : even more intense, marked 'as fiery as possible', and the piece ends abruptly on a hard accent.

  1. A
  2. B

Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.

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