Darya Mihailovna wishes to hear a new etude of Thalberg's, so I must practise and have it ready.
Konstantin Diomiditch took his seat at the piano, and played the etude very fairly well.
Von Bulow "the most useful exercise in the whole range of etude literature.
This news, it is said, was the genesis of the great C minor etude in opus 10, sometimes called the "Revolutionary.
Its agitated, whirring, unharmonized triplets are strangely disquieting, and can never be mistaken for mereetude passage work.
Aside from a few rallentando places, the etudeis to be played strictly in time.
This etude is an exceedingly piquant composition, possessing for the hearer a wondrous, fantastic charm, if played with the proper insight.
The B minor has been criticised for being too much in the etude vein.
After the Etude a feeling came over one as of having seen in a dream a beatific picture which when half awake one would gladly recall.
All these things combine to give the composition a wholly peculiar coloring, to render its flow somewhat restless and to stamp the etude as a little characteristic piece, a capriccio, which might well be named "Inquietude.
This etude is an important one, technically; because many pianists make little of it that does not abate its musical significance, and I am almost inclined to group it with the last two studies of this opus.
Compare with this etude the introduction to the Capriccio in B minor, with orchestra, by Felix Mendelssohn, first page.
In this etude Kleczynski thinks there are traces of weariness of life, and quotes Orlowski, Chopin's friend," He is only afflicted with homesickness.
