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Nocturne in F Minor for String Quartet
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| Composer : | Chopin, Frédéric (1810 - 1849) | ||||
| Instrumentation : | String Quartet | ||||
| Style : | Romantic | ||||
| Key : | F minor | ||||
| Arranger : Publisher : | MAGATAGAN, MICHAEL (1960 - ) | ||||
| Copyright : | Public Domain | ||||
| Added by magataganm, 10 Mar 2024 Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin,was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era, who wrote primarily for the solo piano. He gained and has maintained renown worldwide as one of the leading musicians of his era, whose "poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation." Chopin was born in what was then the Duchy of Warsaw, and grew up in Warsaw, which after 1815 became part of Congress Poland. A child prodigy, he completed his musical education and composed many of his works in Warsaw before leaving Poland at the age of 20, less than a month before the outbreak of the November 1830 Uprising. The piano pieces of Chopin changed the way the piano was played, not so much in the technical sense as with Liszt, but in the expressiveness required of the pianist. In shorter works, Chopin experimented with textures and sonorities, creating an utterly distinct piano style. Perhaps the most unusual and individual of the shorter forms is the mazurka, which reflects the merging of Chopin's cosmopolitan influences in Paris with his growin consciousness of being Polish. While retaining the flavor and rhythm of traditional Polish dances, the mazurkas also reflect the sophisticated melodic nuances and the coloristic harmonies found in Chopin's other music. These brief, intimate evocations of his homeland are perhaps some of Chopin's greatest contributions to the piano repertoire. The Nocturnes, Op. 55 are a set of two nocturnes for solo piano written by Frédéric Chopin. They are his fifteenth and sixteenth installations in the genre, and were composed between 1842 and 1844, and published in August 1844. Chopin dedicated them to his pupil and admirer Mademoiselle Jane Stirling. The first, Nocturne in F Minor (Op. 55 No. 1), was composed between 1842–1844 and is in ternary form (ABA). Its main theme has a slow 4/4 with a heavy, steady crotchet beat. It starts with the main theme which repeats once with only minor variations. The right hand plays a slow melody and the left hand accompanies with a bass note and then a chord, in crotchets. The second section is then played with, again, the right hand playing the melody and the left hand accompanying with bass notes and a chord. Although there are occasional changes to this pattern, for example the left hand plays a sustained minim with a crotchet chord above. The main theme then comes back in with some variations to the first two times it was played: a triplet phrase is added to the third bar of the section. The second section is again repeated with no variations, followed immediately by the first section again with the triplet sequence. A tempo change to più mosso speeds up the piece. It starts off with some fast, triplet quavers and then three loud (forte) chords. This then repeats three further times until a completely new section comes in with a melody in the right hand and triplet broken chords in the left (see score on left). A descending scale and some large chords completes this section and leads it onto the first theme again. There is then a large variation on the first theme where the main tune is played with other notes in between. There is then a large section of arpeggios and finishing off on six final chords, then modulates to the parallel key of F major for an interrupted final cadence. There are two short chorales. The first, at bars 71–72, marks the transition from B section back to A, while the second, at 98–101, concludes the piece, in F major. The piece was described by Frederick Niecks (Chopin's biographer) as: "we will note only the flebile [feeble] dolcezza of the first and the last section, and the inferiority of the more impassioned middle section". Source: Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocturnes,_Op._55_(Chopi n)). Although composed for solo piano, I created this Interpretation of the Nocturne in F Minor (Op. 55 No. 1) for String Quartet (2 Violins, Viola & Cello). Sheet central : | Deux Nocturnes (13 sheet music) | | |||
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