What is the purpose of etudes?
There are etudes from every musical period. Their purpose is to help the student drill and learn a particular technique. As a result, they tend to be repetitive. Some composers, such as Liszt and Chopin, wrote etudes of such complexity and beauty that they are performed in concerts.
What chopin etude should I learn first?
Most people would usually start with Op. 10 no 3 in E major, because it is slow and beautiful and well known. Another one that is not so hard is Op 25 no 7 in C#minor. Op 25 no 9 in Gb major is quite short, and is not too bad if you can already play octaves well.
How is chopin taught?
Chopin placed great emphasis on musical practice. In contrast to Liszt, Thalberg, and other virtuosi known for having their students focus on finger exercises, or pianistic “acrobatics,” as Chopin said, Chopin taught mostly from the music itself.
How do you use Etudes?
Scan the etude and look for a difficult line somewhere in the middle with a lot of accidentals. Use that line to find the tempo which will be painfully slow. If you can do that line without making mistakes then you know that’s the tempo to begin with. Then play the first 3 lines with that tempo.
How long learn Chopin etudes?
For example it took almost 6 months to learn the chopin revolutionary etude, but i have been improving it for one year more. I guess that if you dedicate to the piano profesionally and you can invest a lot of hours per day in learning a piece, it will take less time.
Was Chopin a good piano teacher?
He interacted with the intellectuals and aristocrats of Paris and became an important piano teacher. Although Chopin disliked concertizing and had few outstanding pupils, he enjoyed teaching piano.
Who studied with Chopin?
Chopin himself had especially high hopes for Carl Filtsch, an astonishingly talented prodigy only 13 years old who came to study with him at the end of 1842.