Etudes Chopin Opus 10 25

Chopin's Etudes are the foundation of a new system of technical piano playing that was radical and revolutionary the first time they appeared. They are some of the most challenging and evocative pieces of all the works in the concert piano repertoire. This edition includes the 24 Etudes, Op. 10 and Op. 25. Pedaling is taken from the original manuscripts and first editions, and fingering is editorial. Also included is an outstanding CD recording from the Naxos label.

Carl Czerny (1791 – 1857) was an Austrian composer whose books of studies are still widely used in piano teaching.

Features 51 best-loved compositions, reproduced directly from the authoritative Kistner edition edited by Carl Mikuli, a pupil of Chopin. Editor's Foreword, 1879.

The Etudes by Fr̩d̩ric Chopin comprise a total of twenty-seven solo studies for the piano, numbered Opus 10 and 25, and a set of three without opus number. Chopin's Etudes are the foundation of a new system of technical piano playing that was radical and revolutionary the first time they appeared. They are some of the most challenging and evocative pieces of all the works in concert piano repertoire. This volume is "from the first, critically revised, complete edition." Includes the complete Etudes of Opus 10 and Opus 25, along with 3 posthumous Etudes.

Twelve essays by leading Chopin scholars provide a uniquely comprehensive guide to the composer and his music.

In this new Alfred Masterwork Sheet Music edition, Willard A. Palmer provides fingering and offers suggestions in footnotes for the performance of ornaments and other markings, based on his extensive study of the original source.