Ballade Op. 47 in A-flat Major

Editor Karl Klindworth Editor Herrmann Scholtz Title pages can be found in Ballade No. Editor Theodor Kullak Albert Ross Parsons Instructive Ausgabe , Vol. Schlesinger'sche Buch-und Musikhandlung , Co-issue - New York: Re-sampled to dpi, cleaned up, and deskewed. Editor Carl Mikuli Complete Works for the Piano , Vol. You may ask me for a manually cleaned version. Editor Rafael Joseffy Ballades, LMC 31 pp.

For the title page and preface for volume 5 see Ballade No. Editor Alfred Cortot Edition de travail.

Maurice Senart , n. Editor Vladimir de Pachmann Marguerite Labori — Transcribed and with notes by Marguerite de Pachmann-Labori. Pachmann's famous fingerings may be of interest to experts; less advanced players might find the fingerings puzzling, and not what they were looking for.

The editor, Vladimir de Pachmann, left an acoustic recording of this piece on two 78 rpm discs, and two separate recordings for piano roll. Editor Institut Fryderyka Chopina.

This time, it is elaborated on as well, and ends abruptly, until the theme is echoed once more and the piece fades out. The original F major theme is echoed, but now in A minor, the key of the Presto ; it is thus that the piece ends, without returning to its tonic key. The form of this Ballade is an arch: The first A theme is in two parts; the first part is song-like and the second is dance-like.

Out of the four ballades, the third Ballade has the tightest structure. This Ballade also uses development procedures that are successful at heightening the tension. The Ballade opens with a lengthy introduction marked dolce sweet. The introduction is thematically unrelated to a majority of the piece but is repeated at the close and climax of the work. Following the introduction, Chopin introduces new theme in a section with the performance direction mezza voce ; this theme consists of repeated Cs in two broken octaves in the right hand.

The 'mezza voce' section is repeated, following by a new theme consisting of right hand sixteenth-note leggiero runs. The original "B" theme is then developed, this time using rapid, chromatic left-hand runs in the left hand under large chords in the right. A retransition occurs as the dynamic builds from piano to forte.

The figuration in the left hand is chromatic and consists of spans frequently larger than an octave. In the final section of the arch, the "A" theme from the introduction is repeated again in octaves. Four chords provide closure to the piece. The work was dedicated to Baroness Rothschild , wife of Nathaniel de Rothschild, [2] who had invited Chopin to play in her Parisian residence, where she introduced him to the aristocracy and nobility. In the preface to his edition of Chopin's ballades, Alfred Cortot claims that the inspiration for this Ballade is Adam Mickiewicz 's poem The Three Budrys , which tells of three brothers sent away by their father to seek treasures, and the story of their return with three Polish brides.

A phrase in the dominant major marked piano opens the seven introductory measures and leads into the first subject of sonata-form exposition, a melody with Slavonic coloration. The first theme undergoes four cumulative transformations with decorations, counter-melodies , counterpoint , and a nocturne -like fioritura. Through the intertwining and thus the simultaneous development of the two themes, Chopin effectively combines the use of both the sonata form and the variation form. This then suddenly leads into an extremely fast, turbulent coda , written in exuberant counterpoint.

1. Chopin - Ballade No.3 in A flat major, Op ( free piano sheet )?
2. Tales of the Wolf: Enter the Wolf.
3. Der Doppelgänger (German Edition).
4. Chopin : Ballade No.3 in A flat major, Op.47.

A distinguishing feature of the fourth Ballade is its contrapuntal nature. Counterpoint is found only sporadically in Ballades Nos.

The fourth Ballade is musically more subtle than the other three, as most of its portions remain melancholic and profound. Although there are some substantial outbursts in the central sections of the music, the coda reveals its greatest momentum. Of the four Ballades , it is considered by many pianists to be the most difficult, both technically and musically. According to John Ogdon , "[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.

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