Name: Trois Nouvelles Etudes The Complete Chopin, Paperback/Frederic Chopin
Brand: Edition Peters
Price: 57.99 RON
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The Complete Chopin - A New Critical Edition from Edition Peters is firmly established as the most important ongoing scholarly edition of Chopin's music and is a must for any discerning pianist. The world's foremost Chopin editors, under Editor-in-chief John Rink, bring their unrivalled collective knowledge to imbue the project with unique authority, drawing upon the latest international scholarship. The Complete Chopin prioritizes the needs of the practical pianist and provides a beautifully presented performing text of each work based on a single principal source together with important variants, along with thorough critical commentaries and illuminating prefatory essays in English, French and German.Edition Peters is now delighted to present Roy Howat's new edition for The Complete Chopin of Chopin's Trois Nouvelles Etudes. Originally published in 1840 in the multi-composer Methode des Methodes the Trois Nouvelles Etudes are Chopin's least overtly virtuoso studies, but arguably they are the most quietly sophisticated of all in terms of how they train the pianist's sensitivity to sound, rhythm and texture. Debussy once said he had 'worn his fingers down' playing the second of them. After 180 years it seems extraordinary that new details can still be found in the pieces, but Howat's edition prints some for the first time, notably a number of melodic variants in the first Etude, plus notes in the second Etude that all previous editions 'bowdlerized'. Acting literally as a piv