Allegro de concert (Chopin)
Allegro de Concert , Op. 46, is a work for solo piano, published November 1841. The story is somewhat obscure, but evidence supports the view of Robert Schumann and others that this piece was probably intended as the first movement of a projected third piano concerto from which the orchestral parts either not are present or not written at all. There is no evidence that Chopin started creating the other sentences.
history
Chopin published his two piano concertos in 1830. In the same year he wrote that he was planning a concert for two pianos and orchestra and that he would play it with his friend Tomasz Napoleon Nidecki if he could finish it. He worked on it for a few months, but had great difficulty with it. The work never came about. There is also evidence that Chopin began work on a third concerto for piano and orchestra. In "Chopin: The piano concertos" Rink quotes an unpublished letter from Chopin of September 10, 1841, in which he offered Breitkopf & Härtel an "Allegro maestoso (the 3rd concert) for piano solo" for CHF 1,000. In November 1841 Schlesinger published the "Allegro de Concert", which bears the tempo indication "Allegro maestoso". Breitkopf & Härtel also published it in December of the same year. The work has the general characteristics of a concert from that period. It contains a detailed introduction and a section that corresponds to a piano solo part. It seems clear that the "Allegro maestoso" in Chopin's letter is the piece that two months later as Allegro de Concerto, Op. 46 was published. The first sketches of the piece were drafted around 1832, but it is not known when the rest of the piece was written. Chopin dedicated it to Friederike Müller (1816–1895), one of his favorite pupils, who studied with him for 18 months (1839–1841). Franz Liszt gave her the nickname "Mademoiselle opus quarante-six" ("forty-six", the opus number of the work in French).
Details
The work causes immense technical difficulties for the pianist: dense musical textures , complex and easy finger work, massive chord jumps of the left hand, trills, thirds, and difficult octaves. For this reason it is considered to be one of the most difficult pieces by Chopin. It has received relatively little attention in concert halls or as recordings, and it is not very well known among music lovers either. Pianists such as Claudio Arrau , Nikolai Demidenko , Garrick Ohlsson , Nikita Magaloff , Vladimir Ashkenazy and Roger Woodward have recorded this work. Although some critics did not receive the work positively, Chopin himself seems to have been very proud of it. He said to Aleksander Hoffmann: "This will be the first piece that I will play in my first concert when I return home to a free Warsaw". Chopin never returned to Warsaw, and perhaps this is why there are no records of a public performance. There also seems to be no evidence of the first public performance. ( Claude Debussy played it at the Paris Conservatory in July 1879.)
Orchestrations / transcriptions
The Allegro de Concert was arranged a few times for piano and orchestra, as was probably originally intended by Chopin. Jean Louis Nicodé created two versions, one for two pianos and a later one for piano and orchestra. However, he added different parts of his own creation. This version was played for the first time by the Dutch pianist Marie Geselschap in New York City with an orchestra under the direction of Anton Seidl. In the early 1930s Kazimierz Wiłkomirski created another orchestration that was faithful to Chopin's published score. The world premiere of this version was recorded by Michael Ponti with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra under Volker Schmidt-Gertenbach . The Australian pianist Alan Kogosowski went even further. In addition to the reconstruction and completion of Chopin's music, he used the music of Chopin's Nocturne in C sharp minor op. Posth. "Lento con gran espressione" and the Bolero in C major A minor op. 19 to construct movements two and three. He performed this work under the misleading title "Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 3 in A Major" on October 8, 1999 with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra under Neeme Järvi . The Austrian pianist Ingolf Wunder orchestrated the work based on Chopin's original score and recorded it with the Warsaw Philharmonic for Deutsche Grammophon in 2015 .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Polish Music Journal: Wojciech Bonkowski, review of John Rink: Chopin: The Piano Concertos ( Memento of November 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Frederick Niecks Frederick Chopin as a Man and a Musician
- ↑ Chopin; music analysis
- ^ Frederic Chopin and his publishers
- ^ Concerts where Debussy appeared as a pianist
- ^ Chopin & Liszt in Warsaw [1] .