ExclusiveChopin: Piano Largo In E Flat Major, Op. Posth.

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Frederic Chopin: Piano Largo In E Flat Major, Op. Posth. This beautiful piece was played by GarsuMene. It is a royalty free music provided by pond5.com.

Frederic Chopin's Largo in E-flat Major, Op. posth. has the melody of the song God, Thou, Poland, which Chopin played in church during his final year at the Warsaw Lyceum. The anthemic melody is serene yet stately, proud and elevated.

Composed in 1837, the Largo in E flat major is one of the many pieces that Chopin considered unworthy of being presented to the wider musical public. It remained in manuscript form and, although he wished all his unpublished manuscripts to be destroyed after his death, it finally appeared in print in 1938. Proceeding at a steady, measured pace, full of grandeur, the Largo has some of the characteristics of a much better-known work of the same year: the Funeral March, which would eventually become the third movement of his Piano Sonata No. 2. Here, however, there is no sense of grief or mourning, only of profound solemnity. The construction of the work is strikingly simple - two melodic phrases, each repeated and varied only in dynamics. Even the harmonies venture little from the tonic key of E flat major. Yet with such limited means, Chopin conveys his intention to the full. The emotionalism of many of his compositions is absent, but it is not needed here. In the Largo, we find Chopin in a rare instance of heroism - simple and unassuming. Joseph DuBose

Chopin's piano music remains the most frequently played in history. He is one of the few universal masters, and has never suffered an eclipse.

Arthur Rubinstein wrote: "...it is not Romantic music in the Byronic sense. It does not tell stories or paint pictures. It is expressive and personal, but still a pure art."

The video was shot by Christian Schlegel and edited by Wenjing Ma.



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