Complete Preludes and Etudes

by Frédéric Chopin

Book Overview

Chopin's piano works are of such uniformly high quality that they are all absolutely essential in the repertoire of any aspiring pianist. The Preludes and Etudes are exquisitely beautiful examples of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486240525
• ISBN13: 9780486240527
• Release Date: November 1980
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.1" x 12.0"

Customer Reviews

The Best Edition

Mikuli did a lot of research on how Chopin taught his music to his students along with many interviews with his close friends and family members. Paderewski's edition is based on Mikuli, and I find both pretty much the same. As far as the fingering goes, this edition has the best fingering. Yes, we do have weaker 4th fingers, but if you are a serious piano student, you know that you have to strengthen those fingers along with your pinkies. If you still don't like to use #4, then change it to #3. And I wish you luck on playing trills especially when you HAVE TO use #4. This is the best value, and I highly recommend it to everyone.

Just as what it was suppose to be

At first I was worried about getting this edition due to some of the other reviews associated with it. However, I got it anyway, because there's really not much other choices out there. Afterward, I looked around the internet and found a tutorial for some of the etudes and the fingerings from this were really right on. It was SUPPOSE to be THAT difficult... no kidding - it's Chopin. Of course I haven't went through all of it, but so far so good.

THE edition

This is arguably THE edition for Chopin's Preludes, and not much needs to be said about it, except correcting some false information presented by reviewers below, particularly the one that recommended the Paderewski edition over this version, which is edited by Mikuli. This version IS the genuine Paderewski edition! Paderewski did not edit this volume, Mikuli did.

This is THE edition

This is one volume in a series of the complete Chopin piano compositions. It is the best collection, with biographical and musicological essays at the beginning of each volume, a nice, easy to use index, and photocopies of original scores which are fascinating to look at for any Chopin fanatic.