Ballad No. 3 (Chopin)
The ballad no. 3 A flat major op. 47 is the third of four ballads of Frédéric Chopin .
Emergence
The ballad was written between 1840 and 1841 and was dedicated to Mademoiselle Pauline de Noailles (1824–1844), the 17-year-old daughter of the statesman Paul de Noailles . The first edition in Paris by Maurice Schlesinger (1841) was followed by editions by Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig and Wessel & Co in London in 1842 .
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Like many of Chopin's works set in A flat major , Op. 47 is arguably the richest of the ballads. Throughout the 6 / 8 - Allegretto , it includes three topics with several variations . From the single E flat of the dominant , the first bar already strikes a wide arc. The relaxed mood is lost in opposing dissonances and sforzatos . Mezza voce the calm second theme appears in F major. By placing the center of gravity of the paired eighth notes on 3 and 6, "it reminds us of the gait of a donkey". It is varied twice in C major and once in A flat major. The furious F minor section begins with a wide arpeggio , which returns in A flat major. This is followed by a quiet, troubled C sharp minor thought on the left , which turns into the shining C sharp major . It is varied in a grandiose modulation with arpeggiated octave chords on the right and wide octave leaps on the left. Once again varied in grumbling dissonances, it finds - for the first time since the beginning - the A flat major theme, this time in splendid octave chords.
Web links
- Ballad No. 3 (Chopin) : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project