ExclusiveChopin: Rondo in C minor, Op. 1

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Frédéric Chopin: Rondo in C minor, Op. 1. This beautiful piece was played by Christoph Zbinden. It has common licence (Public Domain Mark 1.0 Universal) and is provided through musopen.org.

The Rondo in C minor, Op. 1, for solo piano, was Chopin's first published work. It was published in 1825 and dedicated to 'Madame de Linde', the wife of the headmaster of the Lyceum where Chopin was studying. The piece has an 'unorthodox (but entirely logical) tonal scheme'. The first phase begins in C minor and moves to E major and A♭ major before returning to C minor. The second phase moves to D♭ major and finishes with a final statement of the theme in C minor.

Chopin premiered the piece at a concert on 10 June 1825 in the Warsaw Conservatory auditorium. This performance received a review in the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung in Leipzig, probably written by Chopin's teacher, Józef Elsner, which praised its "wealth of musical ideas".

In 1832, Robert Schumann wrote to his teacher Friedrich Wieck about the Rondo:

"Chopin's first work (I believe firmly that it is his 10th) is in my hands: a lady would say that it was very pretty, very piquant, almost Moschelesque. But I believe you will make Clara study it; for there is plenty of spirit in it and few difficulties. But I humbly venture to assert that there are between this composition and Op. 2 two years and twenty works."

Christian Schlegel fimed the video in Kiental Switzerland and Wenjing Ma edited the video.




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