Baobei, 21, plays Frédéric Chopin's Étude Op. 10 No. 12 "Revolutionary" in a concert at Regent Hall in London, England on May 31, 2024.
Chopin's fiery Étude Op. 10 No. 12, commonly known as the ‘Revolutionary’ étude, is in Beethoven’s favorite key of C minor and unique for being the only étude in the Op. 10 set to focus on the left hand. It was composed in Stuttgart in 1831, shortly after Chopin had received word of the final collapse of the Polish insurrection against the Russians. The Polish cellist and music writer Moritz Karasowski describes Chopin’s reaction to this news: ‘Grief, anxiety and despair over the fate of his relatives…filled the measure of [Chopin’s] sufferings. Under the influence of this mood he wrote the C minor Étude, called by many the Revolutionary étude. Out of the mad and tempestuous storm of passages for the left hand the melody rises aloft, now passionate and anon proudly majestic, until thrills of awe stream over the listener, and the image is evoked of Zeus hurling thunderbolts at the world.’ Interestingly, one phrase in the coda of this étude sounds remarkably like a passage in the coda of Beethoven’s Sonata Op. 111-although it is uncertain whether Chopin knew Beethoven’s sonata at the time.
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