Piano Trio
by Frédéric Chopin
The composer in 1835
KeyG minor
Opus8
DedicationAntoni Radziwiłł
Published1829 (1829)
Movementsfour

The Piano Trio, Op. 8, is a composition in G minor for piano, violin and cello, by Frédéric Chopin, written in 1828 or 1829, and published in 1829, dedicated to Antoni Radziwiłł.

Structure

It has four movements:

  1. Allegro con fuoco (G minor)
  2. Scherzo: Vivace (G major)
  3. Adagio sostenuto (E-flat major)
  4. Finale: Allegretto (G minor)

A typical performance lasts approximately 25–27 minutes.

It is the only work by Chopin that features the violin (excluding orchestral parts) — an instrument to which he was somewhat indifferent, as reflected in the relative lack of sophistication of the violin parts.[1][2] In a letter to his friend Tytus Woyciechowski dated 31 August 1830,[lower-alpha 1] Chopin speculates whether he should have written the violin line for viola, believing that the viola's timbre would "accord better with the cello".[3] Emanuel Ax is of the opinion that it is perhaps fortunate that Chopin scored the work for a standard piano trio, since so few trios with viola exist.[4][1][2]

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Letter no. 63 in the new edition of Fryderyk Chopin’s Correspondence, edited by Zofia Helman, Zbigniew Skowron, and Hanna Wroblewska-Strauss, University of Warsaw, 2010
Sources
  • Johnson, G. C. Ashton (1908). A Handbook to Chopin's Works. London: William Reeves.
  • Nicholas, Jeremy (2010). Chopin: Chamber Music (PDF) (CD). Hyperion Records. CDH55384.
  • Rezaei, Ramin (2010). Frederic Chopin's Chamber Music and Polish Songs (PDF) (B.Mus). Lahti University of Applied Sciences. Retrieved 2016-07-11.


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