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SCHIRMER'S SCHOLASTIC SERIES

VOLUME

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CHOPIN TECHNIC
A Series of Daily Studies
Based on

Difficult Passages

Taken from

the Preludes and Etudes of Fr.

Chopin

By

HENRY LEVEY

Ptsigv Copyrighted 1917.

By

SCHIRMER,

C. Schirmn, Inc.

INC.,

NEW YORK

PREFACE
Chopin abound in passages which may be turned into
Lecouppey, in 1878, was among the first to suggest that these
exercises."
[Lecouppey, "The Virtuosity,"
beautiful passages might be so utilized.

"The

fitudes of

Schirmer's Library, Vol. 70, page 15.]

The

technical

great

value of Chopin's

endeavors to master the purely technical

from the

apart

who

of his music, must be apparent to the student

intrinsic greatness

in

compositions,

difficulties so constantly

seriously

encountered

their study.

The
this

author of the present volume has not aimed at completeness, as

would

of almost interminable length; but he has

entail a compilation

sought to extract, from

the very essence of what

passages,

difficult

is

most

likely to be the cause of trouble.

The

transposition of every exercise

is

absolutely essential, and in this

respect the author lays claim to a completeness not

Unless written out note for

devoted to technic.
well

how

The

use

hard

to get a student to transpose even the simplest

it is

of the same fingering in

authorities.

This

difficulty

because the pupil

commonly found in books

note, teachers know full

not

is

is

at

all

of exercises.

keys has the sanction of almost

all

once exaggerated and simplified; simplified,

compelled to study anew

fingering peculiarly

adapted to another key; and exaggerated, because of the obvious difficulty in

frequently placing the

thumb on

have

Octave-passages

not

the black keys.

been

included, as in

Kullak's

method the

subject has been admirably and completely treated.

The

order

which these

in

exercises are to be studied

is

left

to the

discretion of the teacher.

The

mastery

of these special

difficulties

conquer the purely mechanical side of

universally

conceded,

that

of

all

all

writers

should enable the student to

great composers, as
for

the

piano,

it

is

almost

Chopin remains

technically, as well as musically, preeminent.

H. L.

New York,

1908.

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HAROLD B. LEE LIBRARY

ERS1TY
BRSGMAW1 YOUNC
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Exercises for the Equal Development of the Hands,
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