Fantaisie-Impromptu
The Fantaisie -Impromptu in C sharp minor, Op. post office is 66 it published posthumously in 1855 a work for solo piano by Frédéric Chopin in the year 1834. Julian Fontana. It is considered one of the most important posthumously published pieces by Chopin.
Construction
The work follows the form of an ABA - coda, with the A- parts is fast and the B- part slow, the coda combines at the end of the sixteenth of the right hand of the A section with the main melody of the B section, then in the left hand appears. It is noteworthy that in the A- part of the right hand has consistently playing sixteenth notes against eighth - triplets of the left hand (see note value ).
A section
It starts with a two bar held Gis octave of the left hand in the bass in " sforzando ", then takes - quieter becoming - the left hand the eighth triplet on. In cycle 5, the opening motif of the right hand in sixteenths uses.
B- part
He is in D flat major, the key of C sharp minor variant, and begins with a two-measure introduction in " Largo " in which the D-flat major chord played by the left hand over two octaves in eighth-note triplets. Then the tempo indication changes to " Moderato Cantabile " and the right hand begins with the quiet in neighborhoods and straight eighth tune designed to further speed in the left hand eighth note triplets.
A section
The A section is repeated unchanged and complete.
Coda
The piece ends in an ambiguous fantasy -like circuit, in which the left hand repeats the first notes of the moderato part and the right hand plays sixteenth notes. The final chord is a C # major chord.
Similarities with the "Moonlight Sonata "
In some aspects of the play Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, which is also composed in C sharp minor is similar. Two measures after the melody begins, it comes to an abrupt on and off using the exact same notes as the cadenza in the third movement ( Presto agitato ) of that plant. The climax to a six-four chord is also similar in both pieces. In addition, the central part of the Fantaisie -Impromptu and the second movement of the Moonlight Sonata in D flat major, the first and third sets, respectively in C-sharp minor standing.
Because of these and other reasons Ernst Oster writes:
"Chopin Beethoven Understood to a degree did no one who has written on the C ♯ minor Sonata Fantaisie -Impromptu or the ever Has Understood him. The Fantaisie -Impromptu is ... Perhaps the only instance where one genius disc -less to us - if only by Means of a composition of his own -. Actually what he hears in the work of another genius "
"Chopin, Beethoven knew almost no one who has ever written about the Moonlight Sonata Fantaisie -Impromptu or. The Fantaisie -Impromptu ... is perhaps the only case in which a brilliant composer us - even if only by means of his own work -. Reveals what he actually heard in the work of another genius "
Subsequent use of the composition
The melody of the middle part of the piece was used in the song I'm Always Chasing Rainbows. Moreover, it is in the episode " Play with fire" of the cartoon Tom and Jerry in the movie and listen to autumn storms. In Woody Woodpecker short " Musical Moments from Chopin " comes before the play. It is also heard in various episodes of the television series Lost.
The motif was the Variations sur un thème de Chopin cited in the variation of Federico Mompou 10, which otherwise is based on the Prelude No. 7 in A Major.