MUAR 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Felix Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann, Johannes Brahms
20 Feb 2018
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Hunt, the little bell, etc: many of chopin"s character pieces are called tudes, which of course derives from the french word for study". Chopin designed these character pieces both as technical studies for his piano students and as art works worthy of concert performance. Chopin"s tudes are always technically difficult pieces, exciting both to hear and play: nineteenth-century master composers of these short, lyric piano pieces include fr d ric. Chopin, franz liszt, felix mendelssohn and his sister fanny mendelssohn hensel, robert and. Clara schumann, johannes brahms, and many others: character pieces were a prominent genre in fashionable salons, which is their original performance venue, although today they are often featured on large public concerts. If you study piano at all, you will play 19th-century character pieces. They convey a distinct mood or character. Usually in ternary form aba (contrasts in sections) But chopin"s music are aba" (a section comes back slightly changed)
