Chopin Ballade No.4 Op.52 연구

Abstract

Chopin (Frederic Francois Chopin, 1810-1849) was a Polish piano composer of the Romantic period. He is widely regarded as one of the most famous, influential, and prolific composers for piano of all time, including the cornerstone of Polish nationalistic classical music. He had been influenced by many precedent music composers such as Weber (Carl Weber, 1786-1826) and Hummel (Johann Hummel, 1778-1837), and succeeded the Nocturn style from Field (John Field, 1782-1837) to improve to more important unique music style. Chopin was one of the greatest pianist called as 'Poet of Piano' of all times, who created a lot of great musical pieces. He was the best at improvisation and established new style of piano music by developing unknown new potentials of piano and applying high level of skill. < Ballad No. 4 in F minor, Op.52> was originally composed in sonana, in which he employed the free variation and extension rather than the previous rigorous composition or format. The entire composition in <Ballad No. 4 in F minor, Op.52 > show the consequentially integrated beauty in which one theme and four variations lead important structural flow. In addition, variations transform the them under the free style of counterpoint, while the final coda uses all different third theme to lead <Ballad No. 4 in F minor, Op.52> in more gorgeous and dramatic way, which differentiates with the previous type of sonata format. This paper focus on this < Ballad No. 4 in F minor, Op.52 > that has well-arranged Chopin's own musical traits, to study on the characteristics of tunes, rhythm, harmony and Ballad genre shown in his music.