Piano Trio (Chopin)

The Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello, Op. 8, is a composition in G minor by Frédéric Chopin, written in 1828 or 1829, and published in 1829, dedicated to Antoni Radziwiłł.

Structure

It has four movements:

1. Allegro con fuoco
2. Scherzo
3. Adagio sostenuto
4. Finale: Allegretto

A typical performance lasts approximately 25-27 minutes.

The piece has established itself as a core member of the piano trio repertoire. In a letter to his friend Tytus Woyciechowski dated 31 August 1830,^{[lower-alpha 1]}Chopin speculates whether he should have written the violin line for viola, believing that the viola's timbre would "accord better with the cello".^[1] Emanuel Ax is of the opinion that it is perhaps fortunate that Chopin scored the work for a standard piano trio, since so few trios with viola exist.

References

Notes

1. Letter no. 63 in the new edition of Fryderyk Chopin’s Correspondence, edited by Zofia Helman, Zbigniew Skowron, and Hanna Wroblewska-Strauss, University of Warsaw, 2010

1. Rezaei 2010, p. 14

Sources

• Johnson, G. C. Ashton (1908). A Handbook to Chopin's Works (PDF). London: William Reeves.
• Nicholas, Jeremy (2010). Chopin: Chamber Music (PDF) (CD). Hyperion Records. CDH55384.
• Rezaei, Ramin (2010). Frederic Chopin's Chamber Music and Polish Songs (PDF) (B.Mus). Lahti University of Applied Sciences. Retrieved 2016-07-11.

External links

• Piano Trio: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
• "Chopin: Piano Trio in G-minor, Op. 8 (Live performance)". Quarto Quartet (YouTube). 2013-07-04.