Английская Википедия:Ballade No. 3 (Chopin)
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox musical composition The Ballade No. 3 in [[A-flat major|AШаблон:Music major]], Op. 47, is the third of Chopin's ballades for solo piano. It was composed in 1841 and published the same year.
It is the only ballade by Chopin that does not end in a minor key.
History
The piece was first mentioned by Chopin in a letter to Julian Fontana on 18 October 1841. It was likely composed in the summer of 1841 in Nohant, France, where he had also finished the Nocturnes Op. 48 and the Fantaisie in F minor.[1] The first German edition, published by Breitkopf & Härtel, appeared in January 1842.
The ballade is dedicated to his pupil Pauline de Noailles (1823–1844).[2] The inspiration for it is usually claimed to be Adam Mickiewicz's poem Undine,[3] also known as Świtezianka.[2] There are structural similarities with the "Raindrop Prelude" which was inspired by the weather in Mallorca during Chopin's disastrous vacation with George Sand. These include a repetitive AШаблон:Music which modulates into a GШаблон:Music during the CШаблон:Music minor section.
Structure
Шаблон:Listen The form of the ballade is an arch: A–B–C–B–A–coda. The "A" theme is in two parts; the first part is song-like and the second is dance-like. Out of the four ballades, this ballade has the tightest structure. It uses development procedures that heighten the tension.[4]
The ballade opens with a lengthy introduction marked dolce. The introduction is thematically unrelated to a majority of the piece but is repeated at the close and climax of the work. Following the introduction, Chopin introduces a new theme in a section with the performance direction mezza voce; this theme consists of repeated Cs in two broken octaves in the right hand. This theme reoccurs three times in the ballade, twice on C and once on AШаблон:Music.
The mezza voce section soon develops into a furious F minor chordal section and once again returns to AШаблон:Music. The mezza voce section is repeated, following by a new theme consisting of right hand sixteenth-note leggiero runs. The following return of the broken octave theme is transposed from C to AШаблон:Music (the repeated Cs now being AШаблон:Musics). The key signature then shifts to CШаблон:Music minor. The original "B" theme is then developed, this time using rapid, chromatic left-hand runs in the left hand under large chords in the right. This theme builds to a climax through rapid repetition of broken GШаблон:Music octaves (referencing the mezza voce theme) with fragments of the "C" theme in the left hand.
A retransition occurs as the dynamic builds from piano to forte. The figuration in the left hand is chromatic and consists of spans frequently larger than an octave. The key signature then shifts back to AШаблон:Music major. In the final section of the arch, the "A" theme from the introduction is repeated again in octaves. The ballade ends with a reprise of the AШаблон:Music leggiero runs and a second right hand arpeggio. Four chords provide closure to the piece.
A typical performance lasts seven to eight minutes.
References
External links
Шаблон:Chopin ballades Шаблон:Portal bar Шаблон:Authority control
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ 2,0 2,1 Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ Steward Gordon. A History of Keyboard Literature. (California: Schirmer, 1996), 291–292.
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