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Unit XVII The Nineteenth-Century Piano Piece
I have called my piano pieces after the names of
my favorite hauntsthey will form a delightful
souvenir, a kind of second diary. Fanny
Mendelssohn Hensel
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45. The Piano and Its Literature

• Piano home use, favorite instrument of
  virtuosos
• Four-hand piano music
• Technical improvements
• Steinway

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The Short Lyric Piano Piece

• Instrumental equivalent to the song
• Prelude, Intermezzo, Impromptu
• Mazurka, polonaise, waltz, scherzo

Chopin Prelude in E, Op. 28, No. 4
Chopin Mazurka, Op. 53, No. 3
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The Short Lyric Piano Piece
Frederic Chopin
Franz Liszt
Felix Mendelssohn
Robert Schumann
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel
Franz Schubert
Johannes Brahms
Clara Schumann
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46. Chopin and Piano MusicThe Poet of the
Piano

• Frédéric François Chopin (18101849)
• French/Polish composer and pianist
• Career in Paris
• Close friends with leading composers, artists,
  poets, writers
• George Sand (Aurore Dudevant)
• Tuberculosis
• Early death at age 39

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Chopins Music

• Centered on the piano
• Smaller forms nocturnes, preludes, impromptus,
  waltzes, mazurkas, études
• Larger forms ballades, polonaises, fantasies,
  sonatas, piano concertos

Chopin Fantasie Impromptu
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Chopin Polonaise in A major, Op. 40. No. 1
(Military) (Listening Guide)

• Solo piano
• Ternary dance form
• A martial theme, B lyrical
• Use of traditional polonaise rhythm
• Employs rubato

Listening Guide PDF
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47. Clara Schumann Pianist and Composer

• Clara Wieck Schumann (18191896)
• German pianist, composer, and interpreter
• First public concert at age nine
• Wife of Robert Schumann and lifelong friend of
  Johannes Brahms
• Concertized after Roberts death
• Last public concert at age of 72

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Clara Schumanns Music

• Songs, piano music, chamber music (including
  piano trio)
• Technically difficult and deeply introspective
• Piano concerto

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Clara Schumann Nocturne, from Music for an
Evening Entertainment, Op. 6 (Listening Guide)

• Solo piano
• From a set of 6 miniature character pieces
• Ternary form with coda
• Rich harmony
• Complex rhythmic structure

Listening Guide PDF
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48. Louis Gottschalk and Piano Music in America

• Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869)
• Native of New Orleans
• 1st internationally acclaimed U.S. composer
• Affinity for the Afro-Caribbean folk music
• Popular in the U.S., South America, Caribbean
• Died in Brazil 1869

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Gottschalk's Music

• Remembered today for his piano music
• Composed operas, orchestral works, American
  patriotic tunes
• Exploited all manner of dance and song forms
• Syncopated rhythms anticipate ragtime

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Gottschalk The Banjo (Le banjo Fantasie
grotesque) (Listening Guide)

• Free form work for solo piano
• 2 main sections, each repeated
• Highly syncopated
• Imitates strumming and picking of banjo
• Melody in coda suggests Camptown Races
• Listening Guide PDF

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