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Description: Menuetto. Trio constitutes the second movement of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major, K. 331 (300i), most likely composed in Vienna or Salzburg around 1783. The second movement of the sonata is a standard minuet and trio movement in A major. The minuet is 40 measures long, and the trio is 52.

Description: Fr�d�ric Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35, popularly known as The Funeral March, was completed in 1839 at Nohant, near Ch�teauroux in France. However, the third movement, whence comes the sonata's common nickname, had been composed as early as 1837. The Sonata is considered to be one of the greatest masterworks of the nineteenth century. These are the powerful closing cords from the fourth movement Finale: Presto of the Sonata. The movement contains a whirlwind of unremitting parallel octaves, with unvarying tempo and dynamics, and not a single rest or chord until the final bars. It has been described as the "wind howling around the gravestones."

Description: The Scherzo No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 31 was composed and published in 1837. Schumann compared this scherzo to a Byronic poem, "so overflowing with tenderness, boldness, love and contempt." The renowned sotto voce opening was a question and the second phrase the answer. For Chopin it was never questioning enough, never soft enough, never vaulted enough. It must be a charnel-house. In popular culture, the piece is heard in the Woody Woodpecker episode "Musical Moments."

Description: Belongs to Chopin's 24 Preludes, Op. 28, a set of short pieces for the piano, one in each of the twenty-four keys, originally published in 1839. Chopin wrote them between 1835 and 1839, partly at Valldemossa, Majorca, where he spent the winter of 1838-39 and where he had fled with George Sand and her children to escape the damp Paris weather. In Majorca, Chopin had a copy of Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, and as in each of Bach's two sets of preludes and fugues, his Op. 28 set comprises a complete cycle of the major and minor keys, albeit with a different ordering. This piece Contains exuberant ostinati. It�s mood and/or theme is characterized by a tree full of songs, uncertainty.

Description: The principal theme of Frederic Chopin's Grande Polonaise Brilliante in E-flat major, Op. 22 combines soaring flight with spirit and verve, bravura with elegance - all of those features that characterize a dance in the style brillant. As befits a composition in the brillant style, the work is rounded off with a dazzling, refulgent coda. The end result is a work in grand style, par excellence virtuosic. The piece is a magnificent example of the genre. Played with the utmost fluency, subtlety and sensitivity to the beauty of the sound, it achieves exemplary elegance, freedom, and freshness.

Description: The B flat major Mazurka has the form of a rondo. The refrain, of unconventional design, thrusts its way upwards, swinging and swaggering, before falling back down in a delicate scherzando. The Mazurka is one of the few that could be danced; indeed, it seems to pull the listener up onto the dance-floor.

Description: �tude Op. 10, No. 12 in C minor, known as the Revolutionary �tude or the �tude on the Bombardment of Warsaw, is a solo piano work by Fr�d�ric Chopin written circa 1831, and the last in his first set, Etudes Op.10, dedicated to his friend Franz Liszt. Unlike �tudes of prior periods (works designed to emphasize and develop particular aspects of musical technique), the romantic �tudes of composers such as Chopin and Liszt are fully developed musical concert pieces, but still continue to represent a goal of developing stronger technique.

Description: �tude Op. 10, No. 11, in E-flat major, is a technical study composed by Fr�d�ric Chopin. It is sometimes given the tiles Arpeggio-Study, and Guitar-Study. The chief difficulty addressed in this piece is the performance of extended arpeggiated chords. Throughout, the hands are required to stretch intervals as large as compound fifths. The melody, though usually the highest note of each chord, is often found in inner parts with higher parts simply being part of the accompaniment. The piece is also notable for its chromatic harmonies, daring at the time, and enharmonic shifts.

Description: �tude Op. 10, No. 7, in C major, is a solo piano technical study composed by Fr�d�ric Chopin around 1830 - 1832 and published in 1833. The tempo Vivace indicates a lively playing speed. In order to be melodically pleasing, �tude Op. 10, No. 7 demands a special technique, as the interpretation of its melodic line is not as easy as the more popular �tudes by Chopin.

Description: �tude Op. 10, No. 4, in C-sharp minor, is a study for solo piano composed by Fr�d�ric Chopin in 1830. It was first published in 1833 as the fourth piece of his �tudes Op. 10. This passionate study, a very fast Presto con fuoco, features continuous sixteenth notes (semiquavers), in perpetuum mobile fashion involving both hands.