Piano Trio (Chopin)

Piano Trio
by Frédéric Chopin
The composer in 1835
Key G minor
Catalogue Op. 8
Dedication Antoni Radziwiłł
Published 1829 (1829)
Movements four

The Piano Trio, Op. 8, is a composition in G minor by Frédéric Chopin, written in 1828 or 1829, and published in 1829, dedicated to Antoni Radziwiłł.

Structure

It has four movements:

  1. Allegro con fuoco
  2. Scherzo
  3. Adagio sostenuto
  4. Finale: Allegretto

A typical performance lasts approximately 25-27 minutes.

The piece has established itself as a core member of the piano trio repertoire. In a letter to his friend Tytus Woyciechowski dated 31 August 1830,[lower-alpha 1] Chopin speculates whether he should have written the violin line for viola, believing that the viola's timbre would "accord better with the cello".[1] Emanuel Ax is of the opinion that it is perhaps fortunate that Chopin scored the work for a standard piano trio, since so few trios with viola exist.[2][3][4]

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Letter no. 63 in the new edition of Fryderyk Chopin’s Correspondence, edited by Zofia Helman, Zbigniew Skowron, and Hanna Wroblewska-Strauss, University of Warsaw, 2010
  1. ↑ Rezaei 2010, p. 14
  2. ↑ Johnson 1908.
  3. ↑ Nicholas 2010.
  4. ↑ Rezaei 2010.
Sources
  • Johnson, G. C. Ashton (1908). A Handbook to Chopin's Works. London: William Reeves.
  • Nicholas, Jeremy (2010). Chopin: Chamber Music (PDF) (CD). Hyperion Records. CDH55384.
  • Rezaei, Ramin (2010). Frederic Chopin's Chamber Music and Polish Songs (PDF) (B.Mus). Lahti University of Applied Sciences. Retrieved 2016-07-11.
  • Piano Trio: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
  • "Chopin: Piano Trio in G-minor, Op. 8 (Live performance)". Quarto Quartet (YouTube). 2013-07-04.


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