Frédéric Chopin - Etude in A Minor, Op. 25, No. 11

Étude Op. 25, No. 11 in A minor, often referred to as the Winter Wind in English, is a solo piano technical study composed by Frédéric Chopin in 1836. It was first published together with all études of Opus 25 in 1837, in France, Germany, and England. The first French edition indicates a common time time signature, but the manuscript and the first German edition both feature cut time. The first four bars that characterize the melody were added just before publication at the advice of Charles A. Hoffmann, a friend.
Étude Op. 25, No. 11 is a study for developing stamina, dexterity, and technique - essential skills for any concert pianist. It begins with a piano introduction of the main melody. The first theme follows, consisting of tumultuous cascades of semiquaver-tuplets (sixteenth-note-tuplets) and a leaping figure for the left hand in the relative major, C major, which shortly segues into a repetition of the first theme. It finishes with a short development into a fortissimo coda, and ends with one final statement of the theme.
Étude Op. 25, No. 11 is a study of right hand dexterity and left hand flexibility. Both hands play an important role throughout the piece; the melody is sung through the heavy left hand, and the right hand contributes the étude's namesake with rapid scales and arpeggios. This study must be navigated with polyphonic mindset, treating both hands as separate melodies that work together, in a duet for one performer.

[@Sanctorum1]

Love the way it fakes being simple at the beginning! ahah

[@juanramonsilva1067]

This a typical Chopin etude. Right hand moving fast, while left hand does the main melody. It’s of one Chopin best crafted pieces.

[@raphaelneves7666]

Quite faster than it should be, but it's great for a MIDI

[@kofiLjunggren]

Isn’t it normal tempo?

[@Bozzigmupp]

Kofi ljunggren no, not quite, this is just ≈ 15% too fast or so

[@sigmaballz1469]

This is the right tempo actually the 16th notes are actually in sextuplets so they are faster than the "normal" 16th notes the tempo marking actually indicates. Most people perform it too slow.

[@thefallenshadow3766]

i personally like it a lot more at this tempo

[@MrHector133]

It's in normal tempo

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His nickname is Winter wind

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Yeah...

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0.75 PianoReader Speed

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so fast, wou

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