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The great thing about Chopin is that he wrote so much stuff I think to help the world fall in love with playing the piano, no matter what their skill level. Not sure the world has had someone like him ever since. A piano ambassador.
I've been learning this piece slowly, marveling at every measure and phrase. Your knowledge and talent have encouraged me today. Thank you for sharing something so good with the world. Cheers.
Two pieces from the Lied repertoire that uses the repeated note is Die liebe Farbe from Schubert's Die Schöne Mullerin where the piano has a repeated note throughout and Ein Ton from Cornelius' Trauer und Trost where the singer's melody is just that, ein Ton (one note).
Of course, didn't think about the Schubert and didn't know about Cornelius song, but that is so cool, just keep the singer on the one note! I'm sure there are even more pieces in the repertoire as well...
There is actually another prelude in this same set that includes a single repeated note. No. 6 in B minor has a repeated note in the right hand through the entire piece, while the left hand carries a beautiful melodic line. My piano teacher used to call it "The Little Raindrop Prelude".
It's wonderful how easily you discribe and demostrate all musical aspects of the pianopeaces. One has the feeling: In your hands theses peace are well protected - you wouldn't do any harm to them just in order to make the beauty of the peaces clear.
I watched a movie about Chopin, so remembered the part where he was on the island, he didn't have very good health, but the music that came from that experience in his life is very beautiful. My goal is to learn some or all of this prelude. I love your commentary on Chopin's prelude, the insight into the back story and music theory is very helpful. I realised that I probably like this so much because it has a similar key signature as Beethoven's moonlight sonata movement 1, since it goes to the C#m (Dbm). Such a nice key signature!
I imagine the first part as drops of rain falling from the skies, observed from inside a house. Droplets hitting the window. The second darker part is the black clouds slowly covering the skies. The third part is the clouds bursting into thunder and storm. After a while with thunder, the dark clouds slowly go away and we are back to the drip drop of rain drops.
Freddy almost always swims in solitude. On a day of total melancholy, he let his sadness overflow through the musical notes. The result of what he had dreamed, the raindrops was created by this beautiful Preludio. Nice pictures and Great video!
Thank you, Henrik, I'm finding your analyses really helpful as I get back into piano playing - it's only been about 40 years since I learned actual pieces. Subbed. I don't know this piece well at all (unlike the E-minor Prelude, which my sister and mum used to play). I found Tiffany Poon playing it first, and it seemed to depict a passing storm, with the final reinstatement of the delicate motif like that beautiful moment the rain is still dripping but the storm is passing.
Thanks, I'm so happy to hear that! Good luck with your playing, it's never too late to take it up again. I think this and the E minor prelude are good places to start with Chopin, even the Nocturnes usually requires more technique (and there I would say the C# minor and C minor posthumous (not op 48) as well as he famous Eb major are most accessible).
Thx so much not only to your analysis to better our understanding of Chopin’s work, but also a gd historic background of his work. I must thank you for giving me another good chance to learn more music from you. I start to relearn every Chopin music from you . Once again, thank you! Looking forward to more tutorials for Chopin etudes, especially the ‘Revolutionary’!
These days, I've started watching your analysis while learning a piece. You've given me some nice insights on pieces that I've been playing for few years now.
Chopin's Raindrop Prelude is a pretty piece. As it just happens, I have composed a short piece representing the rain recently. I wrote it for flute, violin, cello, and piano. It's a sort of rondo I guess you could say, since the main theme does come back multiple times. I uploaded it on my channel just now. And this video is the first time that I tried using an end screen. Out of the pieces I have written, this is the best so far. Here is the link to the video if you want to listen to it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VF5wqT4lnNI.html I have several other composition videos on my channel as well including my first finished sonata(which has a lot of Mozart influence partly because I wrote it as a birthday piece for Mozart).
Thanks for sharing Carrots! I like how the piece it put together. (one thing - I think it's too much of a dissonance to use an E in the melody over a B major chord...)
Sonata Secrets You mean, where I have the lament bass progression in e minor, that E in the middle feels painful? Because, while there is a B major chord there, it moves to G major and also, the E is over a suspension of the previous A minor harmony(which is inverted to the point that it almost sounds like C major), so it’s a chord tone there.
Sonata Secrets Oh, well it didn’t sound that dissonant to me. I know that that’s at least partly due to the significant timbre contrast between staccato piano and legato flute.
Thank you for this video; it really brought back a lot of memories! I like the format you use to analyze the music and perform it in its entity. Yes, I felt for Chopin’s pain with the Raindrop Prelude and died alone!!I I love his music that I wish one day I could visit his hide out with his mistress George Sand in Mallorca, Spain. We did in 2018. It was surreal following his footsteps... walking through the Valldemossa monastery, saw his piano and many manuscripts, the tranquil cobblestone village and the breathtaking view through the balcony garden looking out the mountain beyond!!
Thank you for your deep and insightful analysis of this piece!! I am a G9 student, and your videos help me out a LOT. They are the best quality analysis videos on RU-vid. Thank you, and keep it up!!!
I love this piece so much. The repeated "raindrop" gives this sense of inevitability, but hearing it back in a major contest after the storm of the middle section feels like coming to terms and accepting this same inevitability. My heart always melts in the third section when that C# minor with the cluster of the 3rd and the 9th hits. And that deceptive cadence right after. For sure my favorite section as well. Loved your playing and the whole video!
Passionate interesting analysis of this beautiful piece followed by an equally passionate performance ! Well done.. I'm looking forward to watching all of your videos . Hurray for RU-vid exceptional access to people like you!
thanks for making this video i pick up a lot but i think i will need to re watch after i have all the notes to get the most out of this video you did a good job not making it look hard as the notes look and yes it sounds great
l've realy enjoyed your sentiment for this piece and share your favourite part, "SO PIVOTAL" and not easy to get "just so" , but when you do .....!!! Thank You!!
Don't play, don't know what's "good..." All I knew prior to watching, is Opus 28 no. 15 is my single favorite pre-1900s classical piano composition. Now I know *why* Great vid and thank you!
Genial Man, your approach to the sonatas and music pieces are fantastic. I played this piece long time ago, but never so beautiful! You have mi suscription, mi bell and my like, great job! Success with the channel.
You took quite a positive side towards Chopin stay in Mallorca. Actually it was an awful experience for him and George. So bad that they remained there only a few months.
Ett av världens allra vackraste musikstycken. Om jag kämpar på så kanske jag kommer så långt så jag kan spela det en gång. Underbart att höra denna presentation.
That's wierd. It should work on this link: sonatasecrets.gumroad.com/l/SSE-vol2 With the "I want this!" button somewhere on the page (to the right on computer, a bit down on mobile). Or is the link not working?
Hello Master! I am studying Piano. Your video, your explanations and your piano performance are excellent!!! Thank you very much :) Do you have a video of Chaconne in G major HWV 435 by Handel? Please
Wait in the climax when you have the right hand playing repetitive eight note octaves with half note chords add on, do you not hold the chord fully or do you use the sostenuto pedal?
I just made a tutorial for this piece. It also contains links to midi file, sheet and information about the piece. You can check it out here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PYHWYeyIrqc.html let me know what you guys think.
For some reason I really like the beginning but the fortissimo section sounds too much like modern film music to me and I just can't get myself to enjoy it :(
the story is incomplete. Chopin never intended anything but absolute music, meaning it isn't representative of anything. He rebuffed George Sand for her recommendation that Chopin would deign to include such a silly idea in his music, and it was a publisher later in his life that assigned the name raindrop because he thought it would increase sales.
