Chopin’s Fantaisie-Impromptu: An Analysis 

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Jesus Vladimir Martinez Nuño Definitely. It also trained my abilities regarding 3 by 4

I can only imagine... One day...

It's incredible when you finally 'get' it and the left and right hands just do their jobs. You can honestly look down at your hands and say "OK guys, keep going" because the timing is just so strange to wrap your head around, but the hands, they get it.

I really want to learn this piece! how long did you spent learning this? Is it really hard? I would really like to know, thanks!

@@hanze4278 I remember it took me like 7-8 months but mastering the piece takes more, the hard part is the polyrhythms but just play hands separated and as slow as you can and you should be able to get it c:

Brendan Jacobi True, I have nothing against Moonlight Sonata but I think that emotionally I connect better with Chopin's music.

Moonlight sonata's second movement is spritely and moves away from the sadness of the first, something Chopin may have copied.

Carl Ritchie possibly....

can be.

@Brendan Jacobi What?? Somehow I think the middle section is most beautiful part.

He does a great job on it, and in his tutorial, he even points out how Chopin borrowed directly from the cadenza section of the Moonlight's 3rd movement during the part where the rh rises in pitch to the B note early on in this. The decent back to repeat the first C sharp phrase is note for note the same as Beethoven's cadenca just after the b/a trill.

yes, please do

That one has been on the agenda for a while!

Thanks Allysia,

And all scherzos

And all etudes

Trevor Brown Don't give up! When I learned it, I sometimes practiced one measure for almost one hour. But it was worth it^^

Felix Same. It never gets tiring

just wondering what level pianist you are. I recently started playing and it seems pretty easy. I’m a teenager and have been playing on and off for about 9 years. what level of piano do you think i should be to play it? i can do polyrhythms

@@thomasmorelli4146 I have never played an instrument before, I can play the piece without mistakes and on the right rhythm in 10 months. 10mins a day. It's just hard to make it sound clean

Henry Denner why?

you're either jealous because they're already great at an early age or you somehow have a bad memory relating to that.

KirkLurkPU Jealousy to be honest. At 40 years of age I started way too late with professional classical training so it reminds me of how much I have lost out on. What I do find frustrating is that these kids are undoubtedly brilliant, but playing a piece fast and perfectly is much different to have a real understanding for the real character that it wants to portray. I have to wonder about when or if they would ever get THERE. The world is full of child prodigies, and I have no problem with that as such. But....a child prodigy is only ever really a prodigy if they bring that forward to adulthood, where they would actually improve. I feel many of young kids playing stuff like Fantaisie Impromptu or Bach Goldberg Variations or Liszt Transcendental Etudes have parents that went to a teacher adking what the most difficult piece is and then subsequently force fed them to practice 8 hours per day to play that composition till perfection. This results in these prodigies being one hit wonders without actually having even really "HIT" the true value of the composition. Hope it makes sense.

Real Records see response above 😉

Henry Denner Age doesn't matter at all. You don't need to force yourself to be great. You're, in a way, special and you don't need to be jealous of them. I was never forced to play piano because that is my true passion and my mother happily supports for my dream to come true. The fate of these kids are playing piano or a being a virtuoso pianist. Forcing yourself to be great isn't healthy mentally, you could have heavy depression and I know the outcome is great, they get praises, applauses, cheers, but inside it's the complete opposite. I just want to say that you don't need to be jealous because you will just get the opposite feeling instead, just cheer yourself up and look for things you can do to improve yourself better. Just find what suits you the most.

Actually, the downward run in the beginning of the melody (7th and 8th measure) of Fantasy Impromptu is also taken from the moonlight sonata (3rd mov. cadenza m.188)

That’s what i’m talking about

Seohyun Kim thank you someone knows what they talking about, i was confused when she said its like Beethovens 3rd mvt moonlight sonata. Its only the coda of the moonlight sonata.

Hi, you can find this information and its references on the preface of the Urtext Wiener edition of the impromptus. It's also said that the name fantaisie impromptu was possibly given by Fontana himself (but there is no way to confirm it.). Fontana is also the one to credit with the articulation that Allysia talked about on this video. So as I see it, there are 3 version of this impromptu : an early version which came from a copy made by Franchomme (a friend of Chopin), the Fontana version edited by himself which is shown in this video and the latest version found by Rubinstein in 1962 (who send a copy to Jan Elkier, the editor of this urtext edition). Finally , Rubistein believed that Chopin didn't want to publish this impromptu because it was kind of sold to the Baroness de l'Este. You could also chech out Paul Barton's tutorial about this impromptu which gives some historical details. Cheers!

Do you mean the bit at the end of the long descending section where in the recording at 8:26 there is just one big "DUN"? Because I've always been confused about that part. The first recording I ever heard of this, years ago, that part had the descending part which ended in a "DUN DUN". After that I started to listen to different recordings and every single one just had that single "DUN" like in this video, and I was always confused like "is everyone just playing it wrong or....?"

adu aui Mendelssohn’s 6 pieces for children, Op. 72. The first is lovely and Christmassy 🎄

thanks ^_^

JR24 A metronom is key, especially when the rhythm get more complex than just 4 by 3

Ben Levin and Adam Neeley both do great videos on polyrhythms and compound meters.

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I would say for the easiest one like 'g minor Op. 15 No. 3' or 'c sharp minor KK IVa,16' it is 4-7 years.

AvntXardE 4-7 years for a nocturne? Sure, if you practice 5 minutes a week

@Richard Key, I'm sure we have different interpretation what it means to master a nocturne. You can also start after 1 month of playing piano with 'Gaspard de la nuit' but I'm sure it will still sound horrible even after 2 years.

Richard Key I think she meant that you can start learning the nocturne after 4-7 years of playing piano. The question asked was 'when can I start learning a nocturne?'

Musicolophilia listen to the parts immediately before and immediately after the trill of moonlight 3 at the start of the coda. I believe the similarities are most obvious there.

Chopin actually copied the ornament after the trill, he used it as part of the main theme. The only difference is the speed and Chopin's version was raised an octave higher.

Oh, and I am learning Chopin songs, can you make a lesson on to play an easy Chopin song please?

Why dont you send it to me? 😱😛

Sure, why not!

ally dot pianotv at gmail dot com :)

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@@rumrumrumrumrumrum i didnt start yet

@@nlootah1386 do it m8, start slow left hand one day, right next, then both, repeat. slow tho. :))

@@rumrumrumrumrumrum nah

It's Chopin but pronounced as showpen