Frederick Chopin piano sonata performed by Cheryl Shantz
Cheryl Shantz performs the last movement, "Finale: Presto non tanto; Agitato," of Frederic Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58. Chopin wrote the Piano Sonata in 1844 and dedicated it to Countess Emilie de Perthuis, the wife of Count Perthuis who was the music director for King Louis-Philippe. The B Minor Piano Sonata was the last one Chopin composed. It has four movements.
1. Allegro maestoso
2. Scherzo: Molto vivace
3. Largo
4. Finale: Presto non tanto; Agitato
The "Finale: Presto non tanto; Agitato," which Cheryl performs, begins with a stirring rising harmonic progression building to a high dominant seventh chord. What follows is a rhythm of a galloping mood that permeates the whole of the tumultuous last movement. The main melody has a sombre feel. There is a more jubilant secondary melody in B major that comes twice in the A-B-A-B-A form of this movement. The "Finale" ends on a triumphant Coda in B major.
LIFE OF CHOPIN
Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin, or in French, Frédéric François Chopin, one of the true masters of Romantic music, was born in the Polish village of Zelazowa Wola on March 1, 1810. He was a composer and pianist of virtuoso ability. When Chopin was 20, on November 2 1830, he moved from Warsaw to Austria, wanting to travel on to Italy. However, with the forthcoming outbreak of the Polish November Uprising, and its suppression by the Russian Empire that followed, Chopin ended up becoming an expatriate of the Polish Great Emigration. While living in Paris, Chopin earned a living as a composer and piano teacher. He also gave a small number of public piano recitals. Although he loved Poland dearly, he lived out his life in France and used a French passport when travelling. Chopin had several doomed relationships with Polish women, from 1837 to 1847, as well as his stormy affair with Aurore Dupin, the French novelist, who was best known by her pen-name as George Sand. Unfortunately, Chopin had bad health for a large part of his life and, on October 17, 1849, he died at the young age of 39 of pulmonary tuberculosis in Paris. Most of Chopin's compositions were written for solo Piano. He had an outstanding ability to shape his music to a profound degree with expression and colourful nuances that would make the music sound more than just an exercise in technique. Thanks to Chopin, new forms in music were created such as the instrumental ballade. He also devised significant changes in the mazurka, polonaise, waltz, nocturne, impromptu, prelude, etude, and piano sonata.
1. Allegro maestoso
2. Scherzo: Molto vivace
3. Largo
4. Finale: Presto non tanto; Agitato
The "Finale: Presto non tanto; Agitato," which Cheryl performs, begins with a stirring rising harmonic progression building to a high dominant seventh chord. What follows is a rhythm of a galloping mood that permeates the whole of the tumultuous last movement. The main melody has a sombre feel. There is a more jubilant secondary melody in B major that comes twice in the A-B-A-B-A form of this movement. The "Finale" ends on a triumphant Coda in B major.
LIFE OF CHOPIN
Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin, or in French, Frédéric François Chopin, one of the true masters of Romantic music, was born in the Polish village of Zelazowa Wola on March 1, 1810. He was a composer and pianist of virtuoso ability. When Chopin was 20, on November 2 1830, he moved from Warsaw to Austria, wanting to travel on to Italy. However, with the forthcoming outbreak of the Polish November Uprising, and its suppression by the Russian Empire that followed, Chopin ended up becoming an expatriate of the Polish Great Emigration. While living in Paris, Chopin earned a living as a composer and piano teacher. He also gave a small number of public piano recitals. Although he loved Poland dearly, he lived out his life in France and used a French passport when travelling. Chopin had several doomed relationships with Polish women, from 1837 to 1847, as well as his stormy affair with Aurore Dupin, the French novelist, who was best known by her pen-name as George Sand. Unfortunately, Chopin had bad health for a large part of his life and, on October 17, 1849, he died at the young age of 39 of pulmonary tuberculosis in Paris. Most of Chopin's compositions were written for solo Piano. He had an outstanding ability to shape his music to a profound degree with expression and colourful nuances that would make the music sound more than just an exercise in technique. Thanks to Chopin, new forms in music were created such as the instrumental ballade. He also devised significant changes in the mazurka, polonaise, waltz, nocturne, impromptu, prelude, etude, and piano sonata.