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Etude op. 40,1
7 difficult
Chanson triste op. 40,2
4 medium
Marche funèbre op. 40,3
5 medium
Mazurka (no. 4) op. 40,4
5 medium
Mazurka (no. 5) op. 40,5
5 medium
Chant sans paroles op. 40,6
5 medium
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About the Composer

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Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky

Most important and first professionally trained Russian composer of the nineteenth century; main works include operas, ballet music, six symphonies, three piano concerti, and one violin concerto, as well as songs, chamber music, and piano music.

1840Born in Votkinsk on May 7, the son of a mining engineer.
1849–59Educated as an attorney.
1861–65Study of music; he numbers among the first graduates of the St. Petersburg Conservatory. Piano studies with Anton Rubinstein.
1866–76He relocates to Moscow to teach harmony, instrumentation, and free composition at what later became the Moscow Conservatory. Composition of Symphonies No. 1 through 3 (Opp. 13, 17, 29), the Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23, the three string quartets (Op. 11 in 1871, Op. 22 in 1874, Op. 90 in 1876).
1868–76Active as a reviewer. He attends the premiere in Bayreuth of Wagner’s “Der Ring des Nibelungen” in 1876.
from 1877Travels at home and abroad. Beginning of patronage from Nadezhda von Meck. Composition of the Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36, premiered in Moscow in 1878. Premiere of the ballet “Swan Lake,” Op. 20.
1879Premiere in Moscow of “Eugene Onegin,” his best-known and most important opera.
1884Premiere in Moscow of “Mazeppa.”
from 1887Regular performances as conductor of his and others’ work. He is regarded abroad as the most important exponent of Russian music
from 1888Granted an annuity for life by the Tsar.
1888Composition and premiere in St. Petersburg of the Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64; fate motive appears as a kind of “idée fixe.”
1892Premiere of the ballet “The Nutcracker,” Op. 71.
1893Composition of the Symphony No. 6 in B minor (“Pathétique”), Op. 74, which is premiered in St. Petersburg in October that year.
1893Death from cholera in St. Petersburg on November 6.

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Klaus Schilde (Fingering)

Prof. Klaus Schilde, born in 1926, spent his childhood in Dresden. There he was greatly influenced by Walter Engel, who taught him the piano (Kodaly method), composition and violin. From 1946–1948 he studied at the music conservatory in Leipzig with Hugo Steurer. After moving to the west in 1952 he studied with Walter Gieseking and Edwin Fischer, as well as with Marguerite Long, Lucette Descaves and Nadia Boulanger in Paris.

Schilde won numerous prizes. From 1947 onwards he gave concerts as a soloist and chamber musician on almost every single continent with renowned orchestras. He taught at the music conservatories in East Berlin Detmold, West Berlin, Munich, Tokyo (Geidai) and Weimar. From 1988–1991 he was President of the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich, where he also taught for decades as a professor. There are numerous radio and television broadcasts with Klaus Schilde as well as CD recordings. Schilde has contributed fingerings to almost 100 Henle Urtext editions.

Prof. Klaus Schilde passed away on 10 December, 2020.

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Music Manual

Druckbild, Vorwort, Kritischer Apparat und Fingersatz sind -- wie bei Henle üblich -- in hervorragender Verfassung und dem Interpreten eine echte Hilfe.

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Those of you familiar with the "Urtext": editions of Henle will not be surprised to find that these have been exhaustively researched...

Sheet Music

These pieces are somewhat more exacting technically than the Op. 39 Album for the Young and are also substantially longer. Rarely performed, they should be studied by Grade 7 or 8 students, especially those looking for unusual performing repertoire.

EPTA - Piano Journal

... playable by students with advanced technique. This is a collection that deserves further investigation.

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