Chopin - Etude Op. 10 No. 3 (Tristesse)

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  • Chopin - Etude Op. 10 No. 3, Tristesse
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    Hope you enjoy my performance of Chopin's Etude, Op. 10 No. 3.
    Outro: Chopin - Fantaisie-Impromptu (Op. 66)
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  • @Rousseau
    @Rousseau  5 років тому +4101

    Chopin's Etude Op. 10 No. 3. Often given the nickname "Tristesse", which translates to "sadness". Do you think it's an appropriate nickname for the piece? Chopin himself never gave his works nicknames, the emotion he conveyed through the music itself says all that needs to be said. Sometimes the nickname "L'Adieu" (farewell) is used for this Etude, and I feel like a farewell describes the melancholic, but hopeful nature of this piece more. Have a beautiful Thursday ♥

    • @turtlerunsslow8255
      @turtlerunsslow8255 5 років тому +47

      You brighten my day with every video ^-^

    • @tuanmai7377
      @tuanmai7377 5 років тому +100

      Chopin said etude op.10 no.3 was his most favorite piece

    • @markusengelstad2030
      @markusengelstad2030 5 років тому +12

      Rousseau Thank you for listening. Love from Norway

    • @AntorasStudio
      @AntorasStudio 5 років тому +5

      Thanks! I already commented on the video!

    • @user-ns4bi3pj9c
      @user-ns4bi3pj9c 5 років тому +4

      いいね👍

  • @TomsMucenieks
    @TomsMucenieks 5 років тому +3619

    This is actually one of my favorites by Chopin. There's just something... can't really describe that feeling.

    • @nestorv7627
      @nestorv7627 5 років тому +39

      Same

    • @markusengelstad2030
      @markusengelstad2030 5 років тому +15

      FACT

    • @chottomatekudasai-kun3887
      @chottomatekudasai-kun3887 5 років тому +184

      For me is cause the part from 1:20 to 1:36. It resolves SO MUCH tension in an mezmerizing and satisfactory way that it just makes me feel comfy and calm/chill.

    • @lawrencewei3583
      @lawrencewei3583 5 років тому +79

      Language isn’t capable of describing these raw, pure, ambiguous feelings.

    • @asdfghjkl9974
      @asdfghjkl9974 5 років тому +3

      Me

  • @JamNaco
    @JamNaco 5 років тому +2818

    "An old friend once told me something that gave me great comfort. Something he read. He said Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin never died. They simply became music."

  • @willyzh1106
    @willyzh1106 5 років тому +2004

    I personally think this is the closest thing to Chopin's take on love. The piece starts with exquisite beauty and romance, not yet passionate but more of a quiet marvel, as if approaching her from afar. At 1:04, it finally happens, we finally meet the heroine and the heart swells and accelerates with joy. This is then followed by a melody of the utmost tenderness at 1:19. Love has become something cherished and precious.
    Then the passion follows at 1:37. It starts with utter joy but something starts to go wrong at 1:46. A brief reprieve at 1:55, but it finally devolves into downright anger at 2:00. You can hear attempts at controlling the temper at 2:05 but he finally loses control at 2:11. Rage, pain and perhaps a tinge of jealousy was rampant in the next section.
    Until he finally quiets down again. And the third part which is a repetition of the first becomes more of a reverie of the happy times. A catharsis in a sense.
    It's almost like Chopin wrote a whole romantic novel with this 5 minute piece. I don't think "sadness" captures the piece very well. There is sadness and a sense of loss for sure, but it contains so much more: beauty and romance, joy, passion, longing, as well as pain and anger and frustration. Knowing Chopin's troubled love life, I would venture a guess that the piece was highly personal for Chopin. Perhaps he had one of his youthful but brief love affairs in mind as he composed it. And maybe that is why Chopin ranked this piece as his favorite.

    • @poisonfish2176
      @poisonfish2176 3 роки тому +69

      Thanks for this comment! But I was under the impression that his favourite piece was the Ballade No.1

    • @husikingach1536
      @husikingach1536 3 роки тому +27

      Stop over analyzing

    • @junheecho9800
      @junheecho9800 3 роки тому +250

      @@husikingach1536 its what a pianist does. In order to achieve the highest of interpretations pianists like to come up with little stories like these or imagery to think of whilr they perform. Which makes it a dead giveaway that you dont play piano.or at least to a good standard

    • @husikingach1536
      @husikingach1536 3 роки тому +12

      @@junheecho9800 stop trying to act smart kiddo you still have years until you reach the level you think you are.

    • @husikingach1536
      @husikingach1536 3 роки тому +9

      @@junheecho9800 yes, It is what a pianist does to an extent but it doesn't matter what you think you can never figure out a composer completely and what he wrote.There is no man that can understand chopin or anyone we can just hear and enjoy his work and most of us won't be as good as them I like that he tried to listen to what Chopin had to say as a musician I appreciate it a lot but overly analyzing things won't do anything you'll never capture it completely although you can make an interpretation of how the music makes you feel and next time try not to make us pianist look so arrogant we all talented and skilled are humble but only the ones that have something to be humble about.

  • @humanbeing4841
    @humanbeing4841 3 роки тому +1259

    Chopin himself said that this was the best melody he ever made.

  • @Rousseau
    @Rousseau  5 років тому +1948

    Are there any more Chopin Etudes you want to see?

  • @marikohayashi3845
    @marikohayashi3845 Рік тому +168

    I've always enjoyed Chopin, but I never really understood his music, until yesterday when I lost my dog. And then Chopin's music came to mind-- this man knew melancholy, sadness, hopefulness, despair. Nothing i do or say manages to convey how horribly destroyed I feel when my dog died, except Chopin. This song reminds me of all the times we had together, me thinking of how he used to look so silly doing things, and then the melancholic feeling of realising he's not at my feet anymore. But then hope springs to me when i think of how he's quietly at peace now, and we'll see each other again.

    • @joethepianist
      @joethepianist Рік тому +8

      Im sorry for your loss.🤍

    • @jarchio
      @jarchio Рік тому +7

      I think I understand you perfectly well. A 71-year-old man writes to you who still remembers his beloved dog, even though he died exactly 60 years ago when I was a boy of only 11 years old.
      I cried for him alone and without comfort for months. Nothing could comfort me, and there was a piece called Exodus (Mantovani and his orchestra) which I associated with him. What made me most heartbroken was the fact that I was absolutely certain that I would never see my beloved Pillín again. When I listened to that song I cried even more.
      Throughout my already long life I have lost other pets and I have also suffered, but that time was the greatest sadness in my entire life.
      Now I have great faith that I will see him again when I leave this world. I know it will be so.

    • @marikohayashi3845
      @marikohayashi3845 Рік тому +4

      @@jarchio hello! thanks for your thoughtful message!
      It's been months but I just burst into tears reading how you still havent forgotten your dog. I guess its true when they say, you never really get over the death of a pet. Still, thanks for sharing!

    • @jarchio
      @jarchio Рік тому +3

      @@marikohayashi3845
      Many thanks to you.🙂🙂

    • @javierherrera8782
      @javierherrera8782 3 місяці тому

      19 For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. 20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; 21 because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of [a]corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now. 23 Not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body.

  • @pinkcripps2749
    @pinkcripps2749 5 років тому +156

    That build-up from 3:36 to 3:50 gets me every time. It’s like the very moment you leave someone or someplace you love, staring back as you move away, until you turn the corner and you can’t see it anymore.

    • @alexreid2393
      @alexreid2393 4 роки тому +7

      Pink Cripps Wow well said!

    • @sorrow6291
      @sorrow6291 Рік тому +1

      Deep 🙏🏼

    • @m1co294
      @m1co294 11 місяців тому +5

      There's a famous story of Chopin hearing his student Adolph Gutmann playing this piece, it seemed to remind him of Poland as he exclaimed "O, my fatherland!".

  • @karolpawlowski5368
    @karolpawlowski5368 3 роки тому +116

    Sir Fryderyk Chopin is the pride of Poland! The whole country is very proud of him! 🇵🇱

    • @ikhnaton
      @ikhnaton 2 роки тому +15

      France too ! ☺️

    • @absidee88
      @absidee88 11 місяців тому +11

      The whole world is proud of Chopin

    • @alessandrodemoro3312
      @alessandrodemoro3312 8 місяців тому +7

      Chopin is a gift to the human kind, not only one nation

  • @Rousseau
    @Rousseau  5 років тому +683

    What is your favorite piece by Chopin?

    • @leonf4721
      @leonf4721 5 років тому +89

      Scherzo in C sharp Minor ( I know you'll play it one day)

    • @xenolith2732
      @xenolith2732 5 років тому +75

      Ballade no.4

    • @kaitoharaguchi9747
      @kaitoharaguchi9747 5 років тому +46

      etude 10-4

    • @gmnr1336
      @gmnr1336 5 років тому +52

      Ballade 4 :)

    • @lucasalarcon4772
      @lucasalarcon4772 5 років тому +157

      Ballade N 1 in G Minor, and All Nocturnos !!

  • @shannonasbill6630
    @shannonasbill6630 4 роки тому +373

    I like this piece. It is called "Sadness" and I think the nickname is fitting. It starts out gentle and calm, like you are processing the situation; the it gets confusing and frantic as you feel confused and question why this is all happening. Then it all calms down, and gives you this sense that it will be okay, you're going to make it through this, even if it may not be clear, you're going to come through and be whole again.

    • @nexcenent.3331
      @nexcenent.3331 4 роки тому +9

      dude idk

    • @amityboi4398
      @amityboi4398 2 роки тому +4

      I think the name fits too, people say it doesn’t fit but i think it really does.

    • @Panda-il4cn
      @Panda-il4cn 2 роки тому +2

      Sh thx brother gonna draw sadness for a homework i couldnt feel anything lol

    • @Dr.Novelli
      @Dr.Novelli 2 роки тому +7

      I think the name shouldn't be sadness but rather Nostalgie or something like that as chopin said this piece reminds him of his homeland, Poland.

    • @mevelines
      @mevelines 2 роки тому +2

      Very well described. I feel the same way about this piece.

  • @ginetteg889
    @ginetteg889 Рік тому +35

    Il y a 57 ans javais un petit piano en bois qui jouait cette musique, je ne l'ai jamais oublié, c'était magnifique. J'adore.

  • @wreckyjack6573
    @wreckyjack6573 5 років тому +2204

    Lmao this got uploaded while I was playing the same piece
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    The notification sound woke me up

    • @prodnoble
      @prodnoble 5 років тому +109

      this is actually a really good comment lmao

    • @ethn02
      @ethn02 5 років тому +16

      This

    • @vlrze
      @vlrze 5 років тому +8

      lmao the odds

    • @prodnoble
      @prodnoble 5 років тому +40

      vala rezaee r/whoooooooosh

    • @vlrze
      @vlrze 5 років тому +18

      yeah i got it after i read it lol

  • @nedriley6991
    @nedriley6991 5 років тому +332

    This was playing at my nan’s funeral because this was her favourite piece
    She was 92
    Nanny I miss you so much
    She died on Easter Friday last year
    This piece means so much to me
    Edit: can you play prelude raindrop by Chopin

    • @mitalipandit2891
      @mitalipandit2891 5 років тому +34

      May her soul rest in peace.

    • @familyman5013
      @familyman5013 4 роки тому +5

      You should play the coffin dance on her funeral

    • @juancepeda6433
      @juancepeda6433 4 роки тому +21

      family man that’s not funny

    • @jimjim3113
      @jimjim3113 4 роки тому

      family man Lol pwned

    • @toosnowy
      @toosnowy 3 роки тому +2

      i'm sorry for your loss...

  • @JaYaYaYaYaYa
    @JaYaYaYaYaYa 4 роки тому +41

    I can’t stop shedding tears. This ever-so distant feeling... it’s far more than what emotions alone are capable of allowing any human entity to experience. It feels so inhuman, but maybe that’s because it’s more human than anything I’ve ever felt. As I was a young child, classical music was always playing throughout the out family’s household. Needless to say, there were classics bedtime CDs/DVDs that my mother would play for me on a consistent basis. A part of this piece’s melody became instantly recognizable to me through feeling- a feeling I’ve gotten before; a feeling I’ve gotten whilst re-discovering pieces included in the CDs/DVDs that were played to me. Re-discovering this piece has lead me to shedding tears for the first time in a long time. This feeling, to me, is more sacred than words can convey, and I wish to share this feeling with others. This is what it is truly like to feel. This is what it is truly like.

  • @jimplatt4277
    @jimplatt4277 Місяць тому +3

    My Dad was a classically trained pianist. This is my favorite piece he played. Tristesse means sadness? That’s fitting. He passed away November 6, 2022, but it also brings me joy that he lives on in the music he played.

    • @e.conboy4286
      @e.conboy4286 Місяць тому

      My sincere condolences. I know your grief. May you find comfort in pleasant memories and lovely music. Liz 🎶🎶

  • @jimmyjohn2507
    @jimmyjohn2507 5 років тому +554

    Thanks Rousseau for always making my Mondays better!

    • @pavesemyfavouritelesbian
      @pavesemyfavouritelesbian 5 років тому +62

      But it's Thursday

    • @gnome5051
      @gnome5051 5 років тому +43

      You gave me a mini heart attack, I thought it was Monday for a minute!

    • @jimmyjohn2507
      @jimmyjohn2507 5 років тому +43

      HOLY CRAP It’s Thursday damn I thought it was Monday. YIKES!

    • @Rousseau
      @Rousseau  5 років тому +218

      Giving this a heart because it's giving people heart attacks :P

    • @Risnox
      @Risnox 5 років тому +8

      @@Rousseau 😂😂

  • @thoughtfulthoughts3103
    @thoughtfulthoughts3103 5 років тому +57

    My grandma used to play this every single day, she struggled at the hard parts but it brings back so many memories!

  • @PrissT2040
    @PrissT2040 9 місяців тому +8

    I think that this piece is about life itself. It begins with simplicity. A gentle wonder of the world we all share while we are first born. Slowly, life becomes more complex and is like a roller coaster of emotion and excitement. Then as our life comes to a close, it ends just the same as it began with a gentle simplicity.

    • @gigi1114
      @gigi1114 2 години тому

      That's what I always thought of this one, my favorite Chopin piece.

  • @michaeleaster1815
    @michaeleaster1815 5 років тому +293

    The build-up beginning at 1:06 is my favourite moment in all of music, sincerely. Thank you for sharing!

    • @alexreid2393
      @alexreid2393 4 роки тому +4

      Michael Easter I love that part.

    • @naersthebat4129
      @naersthebat4129 4 роки тому +15

      esetially that short string of chords at 1:10 that just makes my sould go REEEEEEEEE and im sad that its only like 3 seconds long. i wishi just had a whole song that sonded exactly lkie that

    • @moet805
      @moet805 3 роки тому +5

      I agree. It makes me cry every time. This piece has a TON of sentimental value, so I'm not sure if I should be crying to it every single time :P

    • @serosero
      @serosero 3 роки тому +1

      IKR I was here for school shit but out of all of Chopin's works that I'm supposed to be studying, this one caught my attention the most

    • @ehsome
      @ehsome 2 роки тому +2

      @@naersthebat4129 ahh i know what you mean. sometimes something sounds so beautiful, yet so short that you can only try continuing the melody in your head with the little material you have

  • @timefortomfoolery728
    @timefortomfoolery728 5 років тому +552

    Rousseau Fans: Is it HR2? What?!Only a Chopin Etude?! You kidding?!?!
    All jokes aside this is a beautiful Etude and a brilliant performance!

    • @TheTenthBlueJay
      @TheTenthBlueJay 5 років тому +4

      HR2 is coming at 2 million subscribers

    • @korolevpiano7794
      @korolevpiano7794 5 років тому +16

      Hr2 fans* not rosseau fans

    • @sebastienandre-sloan3943
      @sebastienandre-sloan3943 5 років тому +23

      In all honest tho rouseau fans have been spolied. We keep wanting more. The amazing thing is Rousseau does give us more. HR2 will come.

    • @arnavanand8037
      @arnavanand8037 5 років тому

      @@sebastienandre-sloan3943 I want HR2 but I also love him and his performance of other pieces. He has "some" talent.

    • @mohidbaig4000
      @mohidbaig4000 5 років тому +1

      @@sebastienandre-sloan3943 Couldn't have said it better myself.

  • @FoxHoundCReatorFS
    @FoxHoundCReatorFS 5 років тому +1956

    Finally a piece that i can learn quickly
    *Reaches **1:45*
    Oh goddammit

    • @HaotoAnimeOnPiano
      @HaotoAnimeOnPiano 5 років тому +210

      It's not that hard. Believe in yourself.

    • @temporality_
      @temporality_ 5 років тому +37

      You can do it.

    • @samwilkins3145
      @samwilkins3145 5 років тому +38

      You got this, homie.

    • @BicicIentiu
      @BicicIentiu 5 років тому +139

      @@HaotoAnimeOnPiano yes but then 2:32 comes

    • @rouelbesavilla7986
      @rouelbesavilla7986 5 років тому +22

      Bruh its chopin ofc its hard hahaha good luck on learning piano tho you can do it

  • @sitizenkanemusic
    @sitizenkanemusic 2 роки тому +61

    This is my favorite etude. The slowest A section is one is perhaps the most difficult to play. You can tell that Chopin was hearing a lot of beethoven when he wrote this one. Specifically the 2nd movement of the Pathetique Sonata.

    • @claggy3957
      @claggy3957 2 роки тому +1

      chopin didn’t really like beethoven so i don’t think this piece was inspired by the Pathetique Sonata.

    • @oliverm1255
      @oliverm1255 Рік тому +4

      @@claggy3957 he did

    • @richardf.6430
      @richardf.6430 Рік тому +1

      It made me think of that one too. Why??

  • @nate7418
    @nate7418 2 роки тому +18

    Chopin used to truly frustrate me with this piece by creating such a beautiful buildup and not slowing down, not stopping, continuing the melody, keeping the momentum, I now realize he wrote this like poetry, for his pain does not stop even when it hurts more than it ever will again.

    • @jpg6296
      @jpg6296 3 місяці тому +1

      Nautical composition. The emotion crashes like waves, suddenly turned into foam as the next wave begins swelling.

  • @CroseBuhrn
    @CroseBuhrn 4 роки тому +160

    An amazing piece that closed out both Fullmetal Alchemist then Futurama. And both times it was beautiful

    • @CLEVERBRA1N
      @CLEVERBRA1N 3 роки тому +13

      Also a really cool reimagining of it in the intro to the anime Gankutsuou

    • @Gabriel-tk9qn
      @Gabriel-tk9qn 2 роки тому

      They also used this piece in an episode for the show "midnight diner" highly recommend watching it, its on Netflix

    • @catrionaguthrie7161
      @catrionaguthrie7161 2 роки тому +6

      The use of this in FMA was so perfect.

    • @jesusnthedaisychain
      @jesusnthedaisychain 2 роки тому +7

      @@catrionaguthrie7161 You're taking me to Hohenheim! To that bastard! To my father!
      Al?

    • @LunarJaguar
      @LunarJaguar Рік тому +2

      @@catrionaguthrie7161 it really was

  • @vesperiadragon3221
    @vesperiadragon3221 5 років тому +23

    Thank you for this. When my mom passed away from cancer when I was 20, this was the song that oddly helped me through. I’d never heard the nickname of “Farewell” given to it, though I feel it is apt.
    Thank you, again. You played it exactly as I’d hoped.

  • @jonathan130
    @jonathan130 11 місяців тому +12

    This guy surely left a huge mark on jazz. This composition stands out from anything created during that time or earlier. The musical harmony has a distinctly jazzy feel. At 1:04, there's a rapid sequence of larger chords, including 9, 13 or 6, augmented, 7, and 7 b5, all packed into just 20 seconds. Plus, even at 2:48, that part maintains a jazzy vibe.

  • @dimbertsos
    @dimbertsos 4 роки тому +47

    I hate this piece. I hate it but I love it. It may seem quite easy but believe me, it isn't. I have managed to perform pieces like the moonlight sonata, fantaisie impromptu and winter wind but this one has frustrated me mainly because the chords in 2:32 make like zero sense and still when performed they unravel a melody that somehow does make sense.
    Chopin is merciless...

    • @theharry801
      @theharry801 4 роки тому +7

      Its just tritones, going down a step, not too complicated. And the next chord passage is mirrored

    • @Dylonely42
      @Dylonely42 3 роки тому

      Etude Op. 25 No. 11 is waaaayyyyyyyyy harder than this

    • @user-ik8fk7qt2w
      @user-ik8fk7qt2w День тому

      I understand you. For the same reason, but also for some others, I don't like another peace of Chopin's specific composition, the nocturne in C. Sharp minor op. 9 no 2

  • @rainpi4no988
    @rainpi4no988 5 років тому +120

    As well as the name "Tristesse" he expresses his sad feelings very well. I was so moved that I listened to it well.
    Bravo Rousseau!

  • @ethandeslande9085
    @ethandeslande9085 4 роки тому +9

    When I hear this music, when I feel every note of this score, even with three different performers, what I feel emanating from this score is not sadness. It is close but yet so far away, I feel like remorse or rather regret. It alternates between regret and nostalgia. Remembering the past is sometimes painful and can make us cry but makes us move forward. This is what Chopin's Etude op.10 n° 3 makes me feel each time.

  • @pookiepoodle46
    @pookiepoodle46 Рік тому +15

    As a painter of portraits, I listen to classical music to help me feel my emotions as I’m creating. Hopefully to translate onto the canvas. I’m going to have this profoundly beautiful piece on repeat. It make my heart swell.

  • @laurie7357
    @laurie7357 4 роки тому +109

    Fascinating how even the saddest Chopin pieces never end on a sad note.
    I guess he was a pretty resilient guy... 🌹❤️🎹

    • @mostafa12890
      @mostafa12890 2 роки тому +6

      Not all of them do. 3 of the ballades end on sad notes and they’re horribly depressing (they have their happy moments ofc).

    • @user-rk3me2qk6r
      @user-rk3me2qk6r 2 роки тому +5

      listen to prelude in e minor

    • @franzliszt4038
      @franzliszt4038 Рік тому

      @@mostafa12890 tbh id say only ballade 2 ends on a sad note of the 4

    • @nanalovesrice
      @nanalovesrice Рік тому

      @@franzliszt4038 I’d say number one definitely ends on a sad note

    • @OregonSingles
      @OregonSingles Рік тому

      The prelude may begin that way but we sure weren't meant to end up that way.

  • @TheAlva
    @TheAlva 5 років тому +1958

    Chopin - Étude Op. 25, No. 5 (Wrong Note)

    • @fermatt152
      @fermatt152 5 років тому +46

      The Alva How many times have you been commenting this on his videos lol

    • @TheAlva
      @TheAlva 5 років тому +15

      @@bhooshanpandit1344 I agree.

    • @TheAlva
      @TheAlva 5 років тому +16

      @@iamchocoroll Arghh~ I know that anime... Maybe he/she should play "The Sleeping Beauty" Waltz too.

    • @TheAlva
      @TheAlva 5 років тому +7

      @@iamchocoroll Of course! The piano 4 hands (Arr. by Rachmaninoff) :D

    • @TheAlva
      @TheAlva 5 років тому +4

      @@iamchocoroll All of his works are amazing!
      Well, Good night and take care.
      *I reply you at 22:15 PM (GMT +7)

  • @markusengelstad2030
    @markusengelstad2030 5 років тому +157

    HOLY SH*T he listened. THANK YOU SO MUCH. I LOVE YOU❤️❤️❤️

  • @keb1987
    @keb1987 5 років тому +5

    To me, this is a song about finding beauty in life, through both pleasure and sadness. That there will be good times and bad, but the bad are not to be cast off. Instead, we learn and grow from the pain and are stronger and better off for it. And through it all, life is a beautiful thing. I absolutely adore this piece.

  • @andysmom117
    @andysmom117 4 роки тому +32

    This piece really makes me feel some type of way. A combination of nostalgia; looking back fondly on old times, and the melancholy realization that you can never relive the past .Those good times have passed through the event horizon, and only the memories remain.

  • @matthewberlow5558
    @matthewberlow5558 3 роки тому +45

    I have been working on 2:33-2:45 for several weeks now and it has been the hardest passage of music I have had to learn so far in my life!
    I just can’t get it right .

    • @deocommunist988
      @deocommunist988 3 роки тому +5

      Haha keep at it you'll get it eventually, one thing that helped me learn this piece I was younger was to keep my wrists relaxed, and hit the bottom notes slightly before the upper ones.

    • @srinathsrikanth3212
      @srinathsrikanth3212 3 роки тому +5

      Been 4 months.... how is it now??

    • @emiivenux.
      @emiivenux. 3 роки тому +4

      Keep going! With a little more practice, you will definitely succeed!

    • @GodTierComments
      @GodTierComments 2 роки тому

      @@srinathsrikanth3212 Guess he died

  • @ayhamshaheed7740
    @ayhamshaheed7740 4 роки тому +38

    The first 1:36 mins (and the closing part) of this piece gives me feelings I didn’t know I could have

    • @vaughn4613
      @vaughn4613 3 роки тому +3

      Its bittersweet, sadness, and happiness mixed together

    • @netroalex5209
      @netroalex5209 3 роки тому +1

      @@vaughn4613 Its sorta sad, but not in a bad way. This really does convey the feeling of "Don't be sad that it's over, be glad that it happened"
      The song isn't written in a depressive minor key, but still brings acrosd the calm sadness
      except the middle part that's just a psychopath starting a genocide in a fancy ass cruiseship restaurant with those fancy ass tables
      don't know where I got that vision from

    • @qqma4791
      @qqma4791 2 роки тому +3

      @@netroalex5209 thanks alot, the middle section will NEVER be tragic again. I will keep this weird vision in my head from now on as a reminder of the sacriligeous peice ruiner 😤😤😤😤😤😤
      (This is a joke if you cant tell, please dont kill me on a fancy cruise ship)

    • @netroalex5209
      @netroalex5209 2 роки тому +1

      @@qqma4791 Welp, lets hope you're not living near a coast otherwise you'd be in danger :)

    • @qqma4791
      @qqma4791 2 роки тому +1

      @@netroalex5209 me: lives on a fancy cruise ship
      *chuckles* im in danger

  • @makhrayan
    @makhrayan 5 років тому +7

    The french are here and are listening To you.
    It's good to see that you don't just play notes, you play music, and a very good music, thank you !
    Kiss from France!

  • @HaleyMorales
    @HaleyMorales 3 роки тому +57

    listened to this everyday when i was 5 and it was a built in option on my keyboard.. finally found it again and knew how to hum every part of it :,) made my entire year

  • @supertrooper3391
    @supertrooper3391 5 років тому +303

    Hey Rousseau, idk if u are going to se this, but i just want to thank u. For making these videos and inspiring me to play the piano. You were one of the main reasons i started playng and i which to become good one day, and maybe as good as you. Keep uploading

  • @aureliocivetta3919
    @aureliocivetta3919 6 місяців тому +3

    una musica che tocca il cuore creando emozione elevata

  • @MichaelAlexander1967
    @MichaelAlexander1967 Рік тому +27

    This performance does this piece incredible justice. I think it's the best I've heard on UA-cam thus far. Rousseau, you are a remarkable pianist! Very well done, because even the FF's sound beautiful and perfectly melodic when you play. Amazing! Um um um.

  • @Von_benzo
    @Von_benzo 5 місяців тому +3

    This is the song my piano teacher wanted to perform at the concert last year in november,
    She passed away before she could,
    She was almost like my second mother, since then i wanted to find this piece and maybe try learning it too,
    And because of this video i finally found the song
    So thank you, i really appreciate it.
    i know the vid is old but it just popped up to me and i love it.
    Thank you so much for posting this video
    I appreciate it.

  • @chompi2358
    @chompi2358 5 років тому +6

    I can’t help but to be amazed by how easy he makes the pieces look, he shows no struggle in any piece, Rousseau is truly one of the best pianist in UA-cam

  • @fourscoreandmore
    @fourscoreandmore 3 роки тому +15

    I love your choice of tempo. Pianists often play this piece too fast. Just because you can doesn't mean you should. Same goes for the Berceruse.

  • @DisneyRelaxingMusicStudio
    @DisneyRelaxingMusicStudio Рік тому +12

    I had a stressful day and I came across this. Even though I haven't watched even half of it, I know it's going to help.

  • @neoleomedia1676
    @neoleomedia1676 3 роки тому +5

    I think a proper nickname for this song is “Love’s Journey” it describes love. Sweet, but bitter. Happy but sad. Like dark chocolate, this piece combines the 2 in perfect harmony. That’s what makes it so special.

  • @bindon4
    @bindon4 3 роки тому +9

    Is Chopin the greatest composer of all time? - this is a question I struggle with constantly; Stravinsky, Beethoven, Bach, yet none of these really send me to a world of tears like Chopin does....

  • @NepheneeGyattRizz
    @NepheneeGyattRizz 2 роки тому +10

    I always come to this when I need to cry, today it's a break up but I can't let out the tears without this piece, in the past it's been different but I suppose the path to happiness isn't an easy one

  • @zuzannawisniewska8339
    @zuzannawisniewska8339 3 місяці тому +13

    Ah, 1832.The good old days.

  • @user-jy3ns5rv1k
    @user-jy3ns5rv1k 5 років тому +6

    Who but Chopin could write music that is so warm and tender, yet so cold and wistful, and somehow still fiery and passionate? Beautifully played too.

  • @machi4837
    @machi4837 5 років тому +42

    Ahh.. finally, MY FAVORITE ETUDE!
    I've been waiting this for long time
    sooooo beautiful❤

    • @markusengelstad2030
      @markusengelstad2030 5 років тому +1

      Machima T. Same, I have been commenting on every video , the minute it’s uploaded, suggesting this piece. Finally

    • @machi4837
      @machi4837 5 років тому +1

      @@markusengelstad2030 I remember you haha
      And of course, I like your comments👍👍

  • @TacetCat
    @TacetCat 5 років тому +9

    My favorite piece ever written, and the last one I ever performed in college. A lot of my life is tied up in this one. What a wonderful surprise, Rousseau!

  • @johnzech5039
    @johnzech5039 2 роки тому +5

    I think a songwriter wrote lyrics to this piece. ( "No Other Love"). Another set of lyrics " 'till the end of time" were written for the main theme of the Polonaise in A flat. You know your music is good when people are writing romantic songs around them!

  • @vincentedelmonte4980
    @vincentedelmonte4980 3 роки тому +25

    Every piece of Chopin is a gift from heaven

  • @ernadmahmic6667
    @ernadmahmic6667 Рік тому +3

    So the other day I was listening to a Chopin playlist while doing some work and this little tune came on. It was fairly innocuous, a nice little etude, but then came the part around 1:18 after the big swell, those few seconds of tender notes, and I had to stop whatever I was doing and just... feel. For the past few days I've listened to just that part and cried occasionally. I don't know what it is about it, but it just brings to my mind so many bittersweet memories and touches a certain part of my soul unreachable by words (and this is coming from an amateur poet). This right here is the thing that, in my opinion, classical music has on most other music, those moments where it touches some indescribable depth within us and, for a short whole at least, takes us beyond space and time into the eternal and infinite.

  • @zuzannawisniewska4464
    @zuzannawisniewska4464 16 днів тому +3

    I can't stop listening this great performance. Chopin would be proud ,...

  • @thesamsquatch2704
    @thesamsquatch2704 7 місяців тому

    A few weeks ago, my wife and I were staying with my in-laws, along with two of my MIL’s singing students, who were a couple. My FIL is a pianist, and as we sat drinking, talking and listening to him play this beautiful piece, one of my MIL’s students (the husband) just can’t contain himself anymore - first he wiped away a single tear, then he put his head in his hands and just burst into floods of tears.
    Music has such emotional power. It’s an incredible and beautiful thing.

  • @brandonmckown9952
    @brandonmckown9952 6 місяців тому +1

    Isn't it amazing how music can express so much emotion in it? Sadness is a great way to describe this song. It used to make me cry just hearing it. Chopin is a genius and it's a shame that he left this world.

  • @_benjamb7
    @_benjamb7 5 років тому +6

    I cried while listening to this. I remembered my dog, Rocky, who died about 2 years ago. It reminded me of him, and it made me cry. Very well played, Rosseau!

  • @ek7407
    @ek7407 5 років тому +12

    Who loves piano and adores the beauty of the instrument? So smooth and wonderful

  • @House0fHoot
    @House0fHoot 2 роки тому +2

    As a very young child, I heard this melody from a very old musical jewellery box. I loved it so much i overwound the mechanism! Sadly at the time no one knew the name of this beautiful melancholy tune. Finally I’ve found it. Chopin & Rousseau thank you! 🙏

  • @Athomica
    @Athomica 6 місяців тому +1

    Rousseaus performance is truly amazing. No other pianist makes me feel this piece as much.
    This is one of the few pieces or songs, that I love so much that I dont want to stop listening to it.
    Ive been thinking about learning to play the piano, so that I can carry this piece with me at all times.

  • @operadog2000
    @operadog2000 5 років тому +7

    This piece always brings a tears to my eyes. Just beautiful! It reminds me of the beauty and the sadness of life. God Bless us all!

  • @MariaLuiiza159
    @MariaLuiiza159 2 роки тому +4

    I really don't understand how something so beautiful can be real. God is wonderful.

  • @braydonjackson7184
    @braydonjackson7184 4 роки тому +11

    this piece goes thru all the stages of grief in 3-4 minutes

  • @hannastaszak1684
    @hannastaszak1684 Рік тому +7

    Arcydzieło, rewelacja ! Chopinie, geniuszu ❤️

  • @KingOfSparta444
    @KingOfSparta444 5 років тому +78

    It is said that this song was made as a farewell to a woman that Chopin was secretly in love with.

    • @Lagrimoso
      @Lagrimoso 3 роки тому +13

      damn, never heard that, but if fits so well to the piece

    • @HopperDragon
      @HopperDragon 2 роки тому +8

      Pretty sure chopin was gay though

    • @kurokuma1746
      @kurokuma1746 2 роки тому +1

      Wat

    • @user-po1uk2of6g
      @user-po1uk2of6g 2 роки тому +1

      @@HopperDragon lol

    • @janezhu1383
      @janezhu1383 2 роки тому +1

      @@HopperDragon wait he is?

  • @TheBarbarino28
    @TheBarbarino28 4 роки тому +15

    My first time hearing this It took my breath away. Simply Beautiful.

  • @MegaGonza1234
    @MegaGonza1234 5 років тому +25

    I was so stressed today, because of many negative things. But hearing you playing this beautiful Chopin's etude make all those problems just a secondary thing, and all the frustration has disappeared. Thank you for upload this.
    P.d.: It’s curious, the etude is called "Tristesse" but this make me feel in peace and free at the same time.

  • @chidzhustle3570
    @chidzhustle3570 Рік тому +2

    Was on my old Yamaha keyboard, absolute beautiful song. Obviously the massive buildup at 1:11-1:16 is great, but also the progression at 1:22-1:26 is just gut wrenching

  • @MiloPaulus
    @MiloPaulus 5 років тому +4

    One of my favorite's of Chopin. One of the most beautiful melodies I've ever heard.

  • @operadog2000
    @operadog2000 4 роки тому +8

    If I could only hear one piece of music for the piano for the rest of my life, this would be it. Painfully beautiful, and especially your rendition. Bravo!

  • @zuzannawisniewska4464
    @zuzannawisniewska4464 Місяць тому +2

    Classical music is one of the greatest wonders ever invented by man ...

  • @mrstingfish
    @mrstingfish 5 років тому +23

    How could some one dislike this.

    • @LeventK
      @LeventK 4 роки тому +4

      They surely thought it was download button.

  • @defo3314
    @defo3314 4 роки тому +7

    i was searching for this etude for soooo fucking long although its actually a popular one and now im in tears of both joy and sadness cuz this be hittin differently

  • @titiaaujapon4049
    @titiaaujapon4049 3 роки тому +6

    I feel like an harmony between my tears and my heart pounding ✨

  • @Cinetyk
    @Cinetyk Рік тому

    This visualization is just the utter evidence of why we need 60+ FPS on video. Life just happens faster than 30 FPS, it always did, ALWAYS, no matter how many centuries you go back to. This composition from Chopin? Just utterly heart wrenching. I wish I was born like 100y prior and be listening to this for the first time.

  • @SergioMartinez-tw7xi
    @SergioMartinez-tw7xi 4 місяці тому +1

    When he died at the young age of 39, imagine how many treasured tunes the world has lost had he been given the chance to live the second half of his life.

  • @TrielaRhyfel
    @TrielaRhyfel 5 років тому +33

    ROY MUSTANG!!!!
    *cries uncontrollably*

  • @bakingbread4002
    @bakingbread4002 3 роки тому +3

    That melody at the end of this etude gives me a feeling I can't describe. There are very few melodies that get me like this one, it is pure, so sweet, beautiful and at the same time so sad that it makes me wanna cry all the way. I guess I associate this melody with some kind of nostalgia, loss and the feeling you get when you want something that is not achievable for you...
    I told you I can't explain, it's almost as if Chopin knows you better than you yourself and makes you experiencing memories and emotions you didn't even know you can feel. It is a ride of sadness and hope...💔

  • @Seo_Yoon.
    @Seo_Yoon. 6 місяців тому

    I have a music box that I got from my great grandmother after she passed away , and this is just making me cry because I’ve always been a shy kid and never really talked to her when I had the chance to . When she passes , I broke into tears , I was only 8 but I still remember that pain . I always open her music box to listen to the music box every time I feel lost . It always makes me cry but it’s not in a bad way.

  • @timothydestanetwork4197
    @timothydestanetwork4197 2 роки тому

    My favorite Chopin’s etude, the expressive opening passage, the inner playing, climax and anti-climax, return to opening passage, coda. Relieving. Chopin made everything neat and clean.

  • @onegucciboy3783
    @onegucciboy3783 5 років тому +4

    Rousseau I want to say from the bottom of my heart, thank you. This is one of my favorite pieces ever by Chopin and it was played on my birthday by my favorite piano channel?! I was not really gonna do alot all day because I don't really want to do anything special for my birthday because I'm just a kid who wants to go to school and enjoy life, and not spend my parents money for anything stupid I will forget in a month. Thanks for giving me a present that I didn't know i wanted but needed you truly are the best.

  • @gre3ns801
    @gre3ns801 5 років тому +4

    Tristesse (sadness) is the perfect name for this piece. It has an odd tone that makes it understanding but almost erratic and unpredictable. The whole piece is also the journey for feeling sad. The first part is the realization of the event (that makes one sad), then the middle with shows conflicted emotions, anger and this foreign feeling of disgust, resentment. The end is, well, the end. The feeling of understanding and feeling that it is in the past and gone, allows one to move on in a clear emotion of *sadness*.
    What have I done, I have spent way to much time thinking about this. I thank you if you read this far anyways.

  • @davisatdavis1
    @davisatdavis1 4 роки тому +1

    I watched this video non-stop while I was trying to work up the nerve to talk to my crush. 3 months later she moved schools. So this video brings back dramatic memories for me....

  • @johnnybarron2474
    @johnnybarron2474 11 днів тому

    this piece is masterfully poetic and demonstrates ABA poetic format perfectly. it's also so emotional and just makes you want to cry. Chopin really nailed it here.

  • @shay1455
    @shay1455 3 роки тому +4

    the boy i’m in love with just told me he loves this song... i know what song i’m learning next !!!

  • @simon1010
    @simon1010 5 років тому +4

    1:17 is just pure beauty

  • @husikingach1536
    @husikingach1536 3 роки тому +1

    I found you ..finally I have been searching for this piece for 8 months now I finally know your name and the person that made you. I am so glad, I feel so happy and at home now .

  • @bonnietolin9842
    @bonnietolin9842 10 місяців тому +2

    One of my very favorite pieces of music ever heard. So much emotion is exuded.

  • @MrKtosiu14792
    @MrKtosiu14792 4 роки тому +38

    2:11 - 2:48
    Chopin sure was on some pill composing THAT

    • @Dylonely42
      @Dylonely42 4 роки тому +5

      He make this so as to force us to be a virtuoso for can play this piece

    • @netroalex5209
      @netroalex5209 3 роки тому +2

      @@Dylonely42 It's like those synthesia songs or however its called where there are just literally a million keys you have to press at one time but can't hear tho just to play twinkle twinkle little star

    • @minecraftmitjey3207
      @minecraftmitjey3207 2 роки тому +1

      I can totally see it lol

  • @IvanSanchezDS
    @IvanSanchezDS 3 роки тому +5

    Thank you FUTURAMA for letting me know about this master piece.

  • @theodoredafflisio4592
    @theodoredafflisio4592 3 роки тому +1

    Another way of understanding how others have approached this piece is to note that the theme became the basis for Jo Stafford's hit song "No Other Love". This is not necessarily 'tristesse' but catches the essence of the emotion -- having no other love could be either sad or happy, it is surely a state of being.

  • @tjeon337
    @tjeon337 3 роки тому +1

    Love piano songs of Chopin. Passion, sadness, glory, energy, and love are soaked in melisma.

  • @PR-ud4pj
    @PR-ud4pj 5 років тому +6

    I Love THE COLOR!🎵❤️

  • @ErikCPianoman
    @ErikCPianoman 5 років тому +7

    One of the most beautiful melodies ever written. Chopin thought so and I’d agree.

  • @MrSF247
    @MrSF247 3 роки тому +2

    So, ice listened to this piece about 5 times within the last hour. It's just so beautiful and heart wrenching.

  • @LastyGhost
    @LastyGhost 5 років тому +2

    Probably the only piece by Chopin I, just heard and begun loving forever. There may not be another beautiful piano track apart from this...