Tarantella on a tone sequence from Chopin's Minute Waltz for piano (op. 77c, 1979)

Instrumentation

Piano

Duration: 5 minutes

Autograph

Title: Tarantella for piano on a sequence of notes from Chopin's Minute Waltz op. 77c Bertold Hummel 1979 (sic!) - Length: 8 pages - Date: 2.1.78 (sic!) - Location: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich

Publisher

Schott Music ED 20281 / ISMN: M-001-14976-1
Printing error: In the 6th bar before the end (bar 112) the 5th note is f instead of fes

First edition: J. Schuberth & Co., Eisenach 1996

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Extreme popularity and inflationary treatment go hand in hand. Hardly any piano piece beyond "Träumerei", "Frühlingsrauschen" and "Für Elise" has a reception history comparable to that of Chopin's "Minute Waltz"; it ranges from the macabre-grotesque to the popular-sentimental to the realms of the highest artistry. The radius of transcriptions and paraphrases of the little work ranges from stylish adaptations to highly amusing depths of curious instrumentation. In addition to this genre, there are, of course, a number of piano paraphrases of the work by master composers, which - having grown out of the pianistic arsenal of the Liszt (not Chopin!) school - elude any naïve "Let's play it!" approach due to their artistic obstacles to realisation on the keyboard instrument and are located only in a lofty sphere of pianistic equilibristics.

Knut Franke

The well-known music editor Knut Franke encouraged Bertold Hummel to contribute a composition in the tonal language of the 20th century on the subject of "Chopin's Minute Waltz as a foil". A juxtaposition of the Tarantella on a tone sequence from Chopin's Minute Waltz with the works of Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, Raphael Jossefy, Max Reger, Leopold Godowsky, Jeannot Heinen, Sam Raphling or with the original (Chopin's op.64,1) could be an attractive focus of the programme.

Tarantella on a tone sequence from Chopin's Minute Waltz for piano (op. 77c, 1979)

Instrumentation

Piano

Duration: 5 minutes

Autograph

Title: Tarantella for piano on a sequence of notes from Chopin's Minute Waltz op. 77c Bertold Hummel 1979 (sic!) - Length: 8 pages - Date: 2.1.78 (sic!) - Location: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich

Publisher

Schott Music ED 20281 / ISMN: M-001-14976-1
Printing error: In the 6th bar before the end (bar 112) the 5th note is f instead of fes

First edition: J. Schuberth & Co., Eisenach 1996

hummel_op77C.pdf
Playing this video will transmit data to YouTube.

Extreme popularity and inflationary treatment go hand in hand. Hardly any piano piece beyond "Träumerei", "Frühlingsrauschen" and "Für Elise" has a reception history comparable to that of Chopin's "Minute Waltz"; it ranges from the macabre-grotesque to the popular-sentimental to the realms of the highest artistry. The radius of transcriptions and paraphrases of the little work ranges from stylish adaptations to highly amusing depths of curious instrumentation. In addition to this genre, there are, of course, a number of piano paraphrases of the work by master composers, which - having grown out of the pianistic arsenal of the Liszt (not Chopin!) school - elude any naïve "Let's play it!" approach due to their artistic obstacles to realisation on the keyboard instrument and are located only in a lofty sphere of pianistic equilibristics.

Knut Franke

The well-known music editor Knut Franke encouraged Bertold Hummel to contribute a composition in the tonal language of the 20th century on the subject of "Chopin's Minute Waltz as a foil". A juxtaposition of the Tarantella on a tone sequence from Chopin's Minute Waltz with the works of Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, Raphael Jossefy, Max Reger, Leopold Godowsky, Jeannot Heinen, Sam Raphling or with the original (Chopin's op.64,1) could be an attractive focus of the programme.

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