Ballade No. 1 (Chopin)

Ballade No. 1 (Chopin)

The Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23 is the first of Polish composer Frédéric Chopin's four ballades for piano solo. It was composed in 1835-36 during the composer's early days in Paris, and is dedicated to "Monsieur le Baron de Stockhausen," Hanoverian ambassador to France.

Chopin cited the poet Adam Mickiewicz as an influence for his ballades (this according to a rumour based on a remark by Robert Schumann concerning the genesis of Chopin's second ballade). The exact inspiration for each piece is not clear.

The music is built from two main themes, the first being introduced in bar 7 after the short introduction, and the second in bar 69. Both themes return in different guises. The piece is in compound duple time (6/4) except for the short introduction (in 4/4) and the coda (in 2/2). Sections of the piece are technically demanding, requiring complex fingering, wide chords, octaves, extremely fast chords, and even a section of chromatic chords near the end. Its complex structure combines ideas from sonata and variation forms.

Trivia

*Schumann wrote in a letter to Heinrich Dorn about the Ballade, "I received a new Ballade from Chopin. It seems to be a work closest to his genius (although not the most ingenious) and I told him that I like it best of all his compositions. After quite a lengthy silence he replied with emphasis, 'I am happy to hear this since I too like it most and hold it dearest.'"
*In the coda ("Presto con fuoco") there is a passage which is very similar (possibly intentionally) to one in the third movement of Beethoven's Sonata No. 23 "Appassionata".Fact|date=September 2007

Popular Culture

*The ballade was played twice by Janusz Olejniczak in the Roman Polanski film "The Pianist". The first time, a few bars are heard when the pianist Władysław Szpilman "plays the piano" in the air in the abandoned German hospital. The second time, an approximately 4 minute-cut is heard in the film, while a full version is included in the film soundtrack.
*In the 1944 Ingrid Bergman film "Gaslight", the ballade was played by a pianist at the musical gathering she attends.

External links

* [http://chopinproject.com/2007/12/19/ballade-in-g-minor-op-23-1836/ Read about the Ballade No. 1 and listen to a live performance] on the [http://chopinproject.com/ "Chopin Project" website]
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR7eUSFsn28 Krystian Zimerman performs this ballade]
* [http://www.serg.vangennip.com/www/video.html Serg van Gennip performs this ballade]


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