OC 3/2-3: Oct 1913-Jun 1914 - Toni Colbert: lesson: Thursday November 20, 1913
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20. XI. Colbert † : Chopin Etude Cm ; Erklärung des Schlusses, Beschwingung des Vortrags durch Konzentrierung auf die von Chopin übrigens selbst verzeichneten Hauptpunkte; die Wirkung ist dann umso leidenschaftlicher, je stärker die Novelle 1 in den Vordergrund tritt, die 16tel-Figuren aber – die allgemein, weil nun das Stück einmal Etude heißt, in ihrer Bedeutung übertrieben {27} werden – zur Verfügung gestellt werden. © Transcription Robert Kosovsky, 2007, 2020 |
November 20, [1913] Colbert † : Chopin Etude in C minor; explanation of the closing section, enlivening of the performance by concentrating on the principal points to which Chopin himself draws attention; the effect is then all the more impassioned the more strongly the narrative 1 is brought into the foreground; the 16th-note figures, however, – which are generally, because the piece now bears the title “Etude,” overplayed {27} – are just a means to that end. © Translation Ian Bent, 2020 |
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20. XI. Colbert † : Chopin Etude Cm ; Erklärung des Schlusses, Beschwingung des Vortrags durch Konzentrierung auf die von Chopin übrigens selbst verzeichneten Hauptpunkte; die Wirkung ist dann umso leidenschaftlicher, je stärker die Novelle 1 in den Vordergrund tritt, die 16tel-Figuren aber – die allgemein, weil nun das Stück einmal Etude heißt, in ihrer Bedeutung übertrieben {27} werden – zur Verfügung gestellt werden. © Transcription Robert Kosovsky, 2007, 2020 |
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November 20, [1913] Colbert † : Chopin Etude in C minor; explanation of the closing section, enlivening of the performance by concentrating on the principal points to which Chopin himself draws attention; the effect is then all the more impassioned the more strongly the narrative 1 is brought into the foreground; the 16th-note figures, however, – which are generally, because the piece now bears the title “Etude,” overplayed {27} – are just a means to that end. © Translation Ian Bent, 2020 |
Footnotes1 Novelle denotes a short novel or long short story, but in this context may signify just the “flow” or “arc” of the piece itsef. (It is widely thought that Chopin’s Etude in C minor, Op. 10, No. 12, popularly known as the “Revolutionary Study,” was composed in despair at the capture of Warsaw by the Russian army in September 1831, though there is little evidence to support this, and Schenker may in any case have been unaware of the claim.) — Cf. Colbert’s lesson notes for November 27, which seem to clinch the work referred to as Op. 25, No. 12. |
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Format† Double underlined |