page_title: Étude Op. 10, No. 2 (Chopin)
section_title: Paraphrases and arrangements
hierarchical_section_title: Étude Op. 10, No. 2 (Chopin) / Paraphrases and arrangements
caption_attribution_description: English: Excerpt from Czerny's Etude Op.365 No.19. Note the similarity to Chopin Etude Op. 10 No.2!
context_page_description: Étude Op. 10, No. 2, in A minor, is a technical study composed by Frédéric Chopin for the piano. It was preceded by a relative major key. Composed in 1829, it was first published in 1833 in France, Germany, and England This étude is an exercise in developing the independence of the weaker fingers of the right hand by playing rapid chromatic scale figures with the third, fourth, and fifth fingers of the right hand. Meanwhile, the first two fingers of the right and the left hand play an accompaniment of short intervals and single notes. Chopin indicated the fingering himself note by note for almost 800 notes.
context_section_description: Three years after the publication of Chopin's Études Op. 10 Carl Czerny who had frequently entertained Chopin at his Viennese home, 1829, included a study in his Schule des Virtuosen, 1836, that begins like a parody of Chopin's Op. 10 No. 2. In the course of this study the chromatic scale and the two-note accompaniment chords appear in all kinds of permutations given to the right to the left and to both hands simultaneously. Busoni in his Klavierübung introduces an extensive exercise, somewhat reminiscent of this. An exercise in double notes is included. Leopold Godowsky's 53 Studies on Chopin's Études include two versions. The first one is for the left hand alone while the popular second one, Ignis Fatuus (will-o'-the-wisp), is an exercise in polyrhythm superimposing Chopin's right-hand part transposed to the left hand with triplet two-note chords in the right hand. The result sounds much faster than the actual tempo which is M.M. 120–132. German pianist Friedrich Wührer's version resembles Godowsky's first one but with an accompaniment in the right hand. In his Triple Étude (after Chopin) from 1992, Canadian pianist Marc-André Hamelin combines Chopin's Étude Op. 10 No. 2 with Chopin's other A minor études, Op. 25 No. 4 and Op. 25 No. 11, trying to emulate Godowsky whose triple version has been lost. Scottish composer Alistair Hinton likewise combines Chopin's A minor Études Op. 10 No. 2 and Op. 25 No. 11 in his Étude en forme de Chopin Op. 26.
  The étude has been transcribed for clarinet and piano by Ivan Butirsky.
caption: Opening of Czerny's Étude Op. 365 No. 19, first published in 1836
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