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Cannon-fire and blossom: the two sides of Chopin
07.05.2021 Tom Service
Music
Frédéric Chopin Frédéric Chopin

Anyone who has made it to grade four or five on the piano will, almost certainly, have encountered a piece by Chopin. Certainly, no compilation of "classics for beginners" is complete without his E minor Prelude. It's got everything the fledgling pianist needs to feel good about their technique: it's short, it's in a gratifyingly slow speed and it has a superficially straightforward left-hand part, with a sad, singing ­melody line in the right.

Yet this tiny prelude is also a musical masterpiece – of poetic expression, ­melodic descent and emotional ­intensification. The thing is, though, once you've mastered its technical ­aspects, it's all too easy to play it with a gloopy, Liberace-like sentimentality. If this was the only Chopin piece you had played, you might imagine the composer to be a consumptive sentimentalist, the ­embodiment of the sickly side of ­musical romanticism.

theguardian.com
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