 Excerpt from the Ballade in F minor The Ballade in F minor, Op. 52 is the fourth of Polish composer Frédéric Chopin's ballades for solo piano. It was composed in 1842 in Paris, France and Nohant, France and revised in 1843. This work was dedicated to the wife of Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild, who had invited Chopin to play in her Parisian estate and introduced him to the aristocracy and nobility.[1] Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 248 pixelsFull resolution (996 × 309 pixel, file size: 45 KB, MIME type: image/png) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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The only known photograph of Frédéric Chopin, believed to have been taken by Louis-Auguste Bisson in 1849. ...
A ballade refers to a one-movement musical piece with lyrical and dramatic narrative qualities. ...
A short grand piano, with the top up. ...
City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) The Eiffel Tower in Paris, as seen from the esplanade du Trocadéro. ...
Nohant-Vic is a village in the Indre département of central France. ...
The Fourth Ballade is considered by many to be the most musically intense and technically demanding of the four Ballades.
Form
This ballade, as with the other three ballades, is set in compound duple time.
Structure A phrase, marked piano, in the dominant key opens the seven introductory measures, and leads into the first subject of Sonata-form exposition, a melody with Slavonic coloration. The first subject undergoes four cumulative transformations, inclusive of decorations, intense countermelodies (which lead into the second subject, a lilting chordal passage), counterpoint and a nocturne-like fioritura.[2] Fioritura is the name given to the flowery, embellished vocal line found in many arias from nineteenth-century opera. ...
The development of the second subject in between and after the appearances of the first subject and its transformations heighten the complexity of the musical structure and builds tension, which lead into a turbulent stretto section. After a momentary calm of 5 pianissimo chords, the music leads into a bravura Coda, which is characterised by intensive polyphony (which makes the music seem as if two to three voices are playing simultaneously) and technical severity. In classical music, a bravura is a virtuostic passage intended to show off the skill of a performer, generally as a solo, and often in a cadenza. ...
Chopin has demonstrated that, in the simultaneous development of these two subjects, he has effectively synthesized a new genre which combines the use of sonata form and theme and variations.[3] It is said that this interwoven development of subjects in the Ballade represents the synthesis of stylistic characters and is a refinement on contemporary improvisation in Chopin's time.[4] This article includes a list of works cited or a list of external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ...
In music, variation is a formal technique where material is altered during repetition; reiteration with changes. ...
Scale As a result of the large scale of this work and its complexity of form, coupled with the fact there are large developmental passages, there is a tendency for this work to be played with an episodic quality, lacking sense of structure and direction, as compared to the other ballades.[5][6]
The Fourth Ballade is also widely considered to be the longest of the four ballades, the first coming in second in length. A typical performance can last anywhere between 9 minutes and 30 seconds (e.g. Alfred Cortot) to 12 minutes (e.g. Ivan Moravec). Alfred Denis Cortot (September 26, 1877 – June 15, 1962) was a French pianist and conductor. ...
Photograph of Ivan Moravec. ...
Comparison to Other Ballades The Ballades are all unified in their use of compound duple time, with the only exception being the First ballade, which begins and ends in 4/4 timing. The ballades were also inspired by a reading of Adam Mickiewicz's poems. Rather than a musical paraphrase of selections of text from these poems, Chopin's ballades reflect the common spirit of patriotism towards Poland which he and Mickiewicz shared and cherished.[7] Adam Mickiewicz. ...
The distinguishing features of the Fourth Ballade are that the Fourth is more subtle and contrapuntal in nature. The Fourth has fewer outbursts than the other three ballades, and most of its volume occurs in the last part of the piece, as the coda nears. The contrapuntal qualities found so abundantly in the Fourth appear rarely in the first three. [8]
Trivia - John Ogdon once said of the Fourth Ballade: "[It] is the most exalted, intense and sublimely powerful of all Chopin's compositions... It is unbelievable that it lasts only twelve minutes, for it contains the experience of a lifetime." [9]
- According to Robert Schumann, the writing of the Fourth Ballade was inspired by a reading of Adam Mickiewicz' poem "The Three Budrys."
- This piece can be heard quietly playing in The Bourne Supremacy while Matt Damon's character investigates the hotel of the murdered Russian man.
John Andrew Howard Ogdon (January 27, 1937–August 1, 1989) was an English pianist and composer. ...
Adam Mickiewicz. ...
For the film see: The Bourne Supremacy (film) The Bourne Supremacy (ISBN 0553263226) is a novel written by Robert Ludlum and a sequel to The Bourne Identity. ...
Matthew Paige Matt Damon (born October 8, 1970) is an American screenwriter and actor. ...
The Three Budrys The Three Budrys is a poem by Adam Mickiewicz which tells a story of three brothers being sent away by their father to far and distant lands in search of priceless treasures. Autumn passes, then winter. The father thinks that his sons have perished at war.
Amidst whirling snow-storms, however, each one manages to return; and all bring back but a single trophy from their odyssey - a bride.[10]
Recordings - Public domain recording, Musopen.
- Free Recording, Piano Society
- Video Recording: Part 1 Part 2, Youtube.
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External links The International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) is a project for the creation of a virtual library of public domain music scores, based on the wiki principle. ...
Notes - ^ Chopin: Complete Music Analysis
- ^ Chopin: Profile of his Music: Extended Forms: Ballades, Scherzos and Fantasies
- ^ How to Play Chopin: Chopin's Ballades, Prof. Regina Smendzianka
- ^ Chopin: Profile of his Music: Extended Forms: Ballades, Scherzos and Fantasies
- ^ Michael Young, Richard Markham, The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music
- ^ Ivan Moravec/Chopin Synopses
- ^ Foreword, The Ballads of Chopin, Salabert Editions
- ^ Ballade in F minor, The Ballads of Chopin, Salabert Editions
- ^ Chopin Music: Ballades
- ^ Foreword, The Ballads of Chopin, Salabert Editions. An version of the poem can be found here
| Ballades by Frédéric Chopin | No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23 · No. 2 in F major, Op. 38 · No. 3 in A-flat major, Op. 47 · No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52 A ballade refers to a one-movement musical piece with lyrical and dramatic narrative qualities. ...
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