The Birth of the Étude: Piano Studies by Berger, Boëly, Bomtempo, Cramer, Montgéroult, Steibelt and Woelfl
The best-known piano studies are the 27 by Chopin, most of them composed in the 1830s. But Chopin did not create the genre: a number of prominent pianist-composers had already established the piano study, or étude, in the decades before Chopin sat down to write his. Although this repertoire is as good as unknown today, it is a treasure-trove of miniature jewels, many of them announcing the dawn of Romanticism in their combination of Classical delicacy and a new harmonic warmth.
Anna Petrova-Forster, piano
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JOHANN BAPTIST CRAMER (1771–1858)
- Étude No. 26 in G sharp minor
- Étude No. 77 in D major
- No. 31 in A minor
- No. 26 in D minor
- No. 33 in D minor
- No. 10 in G major
- No. 11 in E flat major
- No. 30 in C major
- No. 24 in F minor
- Étude No. 41 in F minor
- Étude No. 18 in D minor
- Étude No. 15 in E flat major
- Étude No. 78 in A major
- Étude No. 107 in B major
- Étude No. 7 in B flat minor
- Étude No. 5 in E major 3:47
- Étude No. 11 in G minor
- No. 1 in C major
- No. 3 in C minor
- No. 4 in D major
- No. 8 in B flat minor
- No. 9 in G minor, for the left hand
- No. 11 in G minor
- No. 3 in C minor
- No. 1 in A minor
- No. 14 in B major
- No. 30 in D major
- No. 3 in F major
DANIEL STEIBELT (1765–1823)
50 Études, Op. 78 (publ. 1805)
JOSEPH WOELFL (1775–1812)
Practical School for the Piano Forte, Op. 56 (publ. 1810)*
HÉLÈNE DE MONTGEROULT (1764–1836)
Cours complet pour l’enseignement du Forté-Piano (publ. c. 1816)
JOÃO DOMINGOS BOMTEMPO (1775–1842)
Elementos de Musica e methodo de tocar Piano Forte, Op. 19 (publ. 1816)
LUDWIG BERGER (1777–1837)
12 Études, Op. 12 (publ. c. 1816)*
15 Études, Op. 22 (publ. 1836)*
ALEXANDRE BOËLY (1785–1858)
Trente études, Op. 6 (publ. 1830)*
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