Chopin's eagerness to create something not only functional but loveable as well comes across in the deep lyricism of the first set of Études, but it didn't stop there. His second set, slightly more ...

Chopin's Etudes If you say you want a revolution, look no farther than pianist Andre Watts. Before he tackles Rachmaninoff's second piano concerto this hour, Watts plays snippets of that 1800s ...

Chopin’s etudes are a kind of finishing school for pianists. Learning to play them at all gives a performer technique enough to handle most difficulties; learning to play them well leaves one ...

The sixth of the Op. 25 études, among the toughest Chopin wrote, revolves around a trill, a fast alternation, of double thirds — extremely hard to handle, let alone at whirring speed.

Ganz calls these etudes Chopin's “virtuosic summit.” “Chopin's 250 or so works are almost without question the most beloved ever composed for the piano,” Ganz said.

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It’s an unexpected landing for a project that started as personal exercises. But today, the études are spoken of in the same breath as those by Chopin and Debussy.