Chopin-Etude no. 3 in E major, Op. 10 no. 3, "Tristesse"

[TheUOIUO]

1:04 somehow i just fell in love with this little section the first time i heard it

[dohgrant]

Too fast, too choppy, too crude,...  not his bag...

[jarrettreiber]

@dohgrant choppy? way too choppy.

[Fortaner100]

triste

[SirMac27]

I found this song because of Full Metal Alchemist!

[MOR7295]

@SirMac27 really?!

where did it show in full metal? i don't remember really hearing though it might be there.. ^~^

[SirMac27]

@MOR7295

Most notably the last episode, when Ed is dead and at the Gate talking to Envy before Envy dove through the gate as a Dragon and appeared in the movie.

[TheLotusAlchemist]

i luv this so much

[bloodbrother1251]

Where are we?!

The Gate

[doodsrslyWTF]

This is just fantastic.

[Aftertheexplosion]

Whos here because of fullmetal alchemist.

[TheLotusAlchemist]

@Aftertheexplosion i am! :D

[SODMGYGRN]

So amazing and I only listen to rap

[fumernuitgravement]

Un zeste de Chopin.

[BJWoodcock]

completely inappropriate advertisement - when listening to classical music with the volume cranked up to appreciate the dynamic range, you don't need rally cars racing past in surround sound!!!

[LilyPad171]

stupid adds at the beginning ruined this for me. But this really is a beautiful piece that's full of emotion.

[Yankeesfanforlife5]

Piano Music is always great. Its nice and beautiful, I wish more people have love for classical instead Rap, Heavy Metal.

[DickLodge68]

@Yankeesfanforlife5 Me - for one...I love heavy metal. And it's a close connection with classical music, when done right. This is a beautiful piece...Chopin always worked the flats. That's fine with me. This is simply a love song. Fun to play but the middle is muddled. The start and finish is masterful.....awesome!

[SaugusAltoParty]

@DickLodge68 You think the middle is muddled? I personally enjoy the harmonic contrast. I think it's very well-placed. But, to each his own.

[DickLodge68]

@SaugusAltoParty Like many Chopin works, it really gets frantic. He started off so beautifully on the piece but then ruined it...just my opinion.

[ApsisApocynthion]

@DickLodge68 What do you mean he worked the flats? This is in E Major.... Any good composer knows that you have to contrast moods. This is something especially common in the Romantic period when composers would switch relative minor/major abruptly. While the main melody may be pretty, if it wasn't contrasted, the music would become soapy quickly - the listener would then be sated, then by the end, bored. This type of understanding is one thing that separates serious music from pop-love songs.

[DickLodge68]

@ApsisApocynthion Well flats/sharps, whatever...same thing depending on how you look at it. E Major had F#,G#.C#, and D#. As for the rest, thank God we each are entitled to our opinions.

[ultraviolet99]

@DickLodge68

You are entitled to those opinions; you're not entitled to reference a bizarro version of the key of E major by crapping out the observation that chopin "really worked the flats" in this piece, then claiming it's *chopin* who's done the muddling.

tragic: i'm sure he'd never have written the animato section to keep the piece interesting and lively if he had known it wouldn't quench your particular thirst for an easy classical piece to pop on your ipod.

[DickLodge68]

@ultraviolet99 Not sure why you are having a meltdown here. First up, I've never had an iPod and don't want one. Chopin is well known for having a lot of sharps/flats in his work. So, you're mad about that? That I stated the obvious? This is a beautiful piece.I'm glad he composed it the way he wanted to. That doesn't mean that I wouldn't have done it otherwise or simply that my opinion is that he mucked it up. Get off your elitist high-horse! Your shit stinks just as much as everyone else's!

[DickLodge68]

@ultraviolet99 Who the hell are you to tell me what I am or am not entitled to? You might think your nose rises above "common-folk" and hold your pinky higher than everyone else. Whatever floats your boat. You don't know me from Adam so just shut your fucking pie-hole! I guarantee that you put your pants on one leg at a time. So, cut the bullshit...come back to reality.You think you are some classical aficionado? Big deal! Have the last word, because I'm done with your snooty, superior bullshit!

[ultraviolet99]

@DickLodge68

Keep your hairpiece on. You spouted off like a fool and someone called you out on it. Move on and enjoy the many 'sharps/flats' in this beautiful work.

[DickLodge68]

@ultraviolet99 You stated a lot of suppositions and you were simply wrong on every point. I didn't spout off like a fool...I spouted off because you're a fucking asshole! Every point I made you have nothing in retort? Keep your hairpiece on? Wow that's brilliant! Get off your damned high-horse and stop thinking that your shit doesn't stink.

[rochefort82]

@DickLodge68 ok

[bugoobiga]

This etude is to Chopin what Everlong is to Foo Fighters.

[grace25ace]

dislikes = persons who couldn't see the beauty and elegance of this piece.

[LSpeed25]

@TheYukiyuki36

Me too! I love Michiru Oshima's piece, Wakare no Kyoku, from FullMetal Alchemist, which is derived from this piece by Chopin. Both of them are beautiful! -3

[edgaram69]

Well, it's good to know that whoever dislikes this may just dislike the interpretation, but I would challenge to a deadly western style duel at any fuckin' cowboy who dislikes the composition. Hell-yeah.

[l0vefor3v3rcordon]

dis i like =|

[Classicfan94]

0:59 most beautiful moment in Chopin's music

[iliketheoldfashioned]

it kinda frightened me in the middle when everything hit crescendo! xD

[jamcow3]

I love my metal... like August Burns Red, and my Owl City.

I am FOR REAL one of those people who enjoys everything at some time.

I LOVE this piece so much.. I have memories of laying on the couch listening to my brother playing this and I would fall asleep everytime.

I love piano (:

[MichaelJacksonFan000]

@jamcow3 Owl City is not metal. lol

[judenihal]

Nice piano music, I love this and I love the dynamic change at 0:56, where it gets forte (louder).

[MrCristian473]

I heard this song in MegaMan Legends for the PS1

[TheYukiyuki36]

Lol, to be honest, Fullmetal Alchemist brought me here.

But I still love the song. It's beautiful :')

[avrilrules96]

I know it's YouTube cliche now, but why would anyone ever dislike this?? What, did that picture of Chopin annoy you?

[zaraka2]

@avrilrules96 maybe because some people don't like this kind of music, clicked on it just to see, and as everyone, gave their honest opinion about it. it's hard when somebody disagrees with you eh ?

[adamz003]

@zaraka2 it's hard for you to not be a condescending prick eh?

[MrSuperman216]

i'll be honest anime brought me here

[bambiuup]

@MrSuperman216 same! and now i wanna learn it on the violin!!

[0ninjaofthedarkness0]

@MrSuperman216 which anime? o.o

[Calambre3]

thumbs up if you think that this is the best piece of chopin :)

[Astukart]

@Calambre3 It's incredibly beautiful, and although (to me) it doesn't beat Nocturne op. 55 no. 1, it's definitely up there in the top tiers of classical music.

[BassicStorm]

@Calambre3 one of the ;)

[MOR7295]

@Calambre3 for me, this piece and Ballade no.1 - Op.23: G-minor also called "the pianist" (i think), are the most favorite... ^~^

though i think i love every piece that chopin made...

he's amazing! i might be young (17) but whenever i'm upset or i don't wanna hear any kind of music because i'm tired of nowadays music.. this kind of music bring peace to me.

so it doesn't matter how much i know about it, i'm just happy to hear it..

well.. that's what i think.. ^~^

[ToRoNtOGuYY]

@Calambre3 Best chopin is chopin girls

[reececarnley]

@Calambre3

its one of them my friend :)

Chopin said once that this was one of the prettiest pieces he ever wrote. i think it might be. but almost every thing he did was gorgeous.

[beutuful07]

thumb up if you watch zoisite from PGSM (sailor moon live action) the part where he was about to died and played on his piano one last time

[jeanenila]

Moonlight Sonata - Beethoven

Clair de Lune - Debussy

Etude no. 3 "Tristesse" - Chopin

The Holy Trinity of Piano!

[ToastyWarmBrownies]

-itotallygotbroughtherebyzoisi­te-

Yes, Zoisite played it when he wad dying.

But this is so beautiful, I could cry. It has to be played at my funeral.

[vsxvjnusv]

Hearing this.. it makes you wonder what he thought about when writing it.

[Malleolust]

Ahhh. Chopin helps me breathe.

Check out Jo Stafford's "No Other Love"

Go have a listen. You won't regret it.

[epicShyxx]

This is such a beautiful piece... too bad i can't play 1:51 - 2:17

[sunsunflowr]

This piece is just absolutely beautiful.

The first time I heard it was through a demo piece on my

electric keyboard. >.<

I immediately had to find out what it was, and have been

obsessed with its beauty ever since. ♥

[hey3apple]

i want someone to play beautiful pieces like this all the time for me!

[xIridescence]

Its beautiful . . .

[apocalypticmakover55]

this is quite possibly the most beautiful piece of music i have heard, and will ever hear.

[CHENNEVENCE1]

MAMAN TU ME MANQUES !!!

et je pleure en écoutant ce qui me faisait rever, enfant quand tu me jouais TRISTESSE

[Fullmetalsgal]

Sometimes I think ears were created solely so we could hear this.

What a beautiful piece.

IMO, other composers are like toddlers thumping away at a piano compared to Chopin.

[stsandrian]

0:50 - 1:10 qnd i m in love with the whole world..... so damn beautiful....

[MusicIsMyLife6991]

Wow, I love this piece. I'm learning it now.

[bluegrassbaby86]

I'm not a big classical fan at all, but this piece makes me want to crank it up. I used to play this all the time, but stupid me forgot how. I get a little bit through it and then freeze up.

[phillyfanmatt]

The first time I heard this song was in the last episode of the anime Fullmetal Alchemist.  I can honestly say, this is the most beautiful song I've ever heard in my life. I just heard it about 3 days ago and I can't stop listening to it.

[PopHeartx]

@phillyfanmatt not to mention it fit the situation in fma so perfectly.. everytime I hear this song I get the feeling I did from the last episode.

[renee2010fresh]

the best etude of Chopin!!

[bence778]

E major means, that the piece ends in E major, it could have modulations(like that piece does)

[kathy0216]

Close your eyes let chopins genius take over. feel what he felt at that moment. thats what music does. get used to it!

[tylus17]

This piece was composed using only 7 notes?

[savestheray182]

@tylus17 not true.



[tylus17]

@savestheray182 It says in E major.. the scale of E major is only composed of 7 notes? E, F#, G#, A, B, C#, D#?

[savestheray182]

Correct, those are the 7 notes of E major, and the piece is based in E major, but Chopin (among many other composers) also uses other notes (called "accidentals") that aren't in the E major scale, in this piece. Also, this piece ENDING in E major isn't why it's in E major. A piece in E major could easily end in B major or A major or even start in a different key. It's in E major because it's based on a major scale where E is the tonal center for most of the piece.

[tylus17]

@savestheray182 Thank you for your input

[61raindrops]

@tylus17 You can also use slash chord, non-chord-note, seventh chord except the 7 notes. and Chopin was very good at modulations.

[tylus17]

@61raindrops Ah I see, for example playing a chord extension turning Emaj dominant 7 into E maj 11, which would be bringing in a D minor triad while keeping the tonic of E?

[Timalexkvalem]

@tylus17 Much can be done with 7 notes. If you calculate the combinations you can do with a sequence of 4 notes having only 7 notes at your disposal you get: 7*7*7*7=2401 different combinations. All these options in a sequence of 4 single notes, without taking into account rythm and the fact that you can play more notes simultaneously, which would give you a lot more options. But among the billions of possible combinations of notes, Chopin finds the perfect one that touches the soul. Genious...

[THEw3stsiide]

@Timalexkvalem isn't it 7*6*5*4*3*2*1..... lol

[Timalexkvalem]

@THEw3stsiide It would have been, if you only were allowed to use every single note once :)

[broxxx1138]

Its played very aggresively.

[TheLondinium]

Absolutely gorgeous playing. Murray Perahia is an exquisite musician.

[amethystMRL]

There needs to be a "loves" button

[chesterthecrab]

my favorite part is the 1:00 part. but i love the whole thing..

[louisdu56bmx]

@chesterthecrab

mee tooo !

[minniemusicmachine]

Exceptional!

[Magyckmage25]

I think that it sounds like life... calm in the beginning, turbulent in the middle, then calm and quiet again at the end and at last that final chord... stunning

[SniperRcPilot]

Been too long since the last time I listened to this.

[msvidabohemme]

My favorite piano piece ever!

[LeonidaII]

Chopin is perfect

[whgwz]

Simply beautiful. Makes one emotive.

[derek47]

I thought this was supposed to be in E Minor.

[Ledtoogesabpistol70s]

If someone grabbed heaven and presented it to us through soundwaves, it would sound a little like this.

[Forseti6288]

mweeeeeeeeeeeeee sobsobsob

[catherine251992]

absolutely beautiful

[doc105]

Never in my life shall i hear such a glorious work besides this etude it makes me think the angels wrote this

[juliburton]

@doc105 nope, it was Chopin. close enough though

[DemonOfOurLove]

i want this to be played at my funeral!!

[UnifiedPerfection]

Some classical music just sounds to me like random keys being pressed, but others like this make me awe and wonder how a human can create something so beautiful.

[GazRockK]

別れの曲？？ｗｗｗｗｗヽ(ー_ー )ノ

[PtiteSwiss]

Wonderful

[Eitanfirenze]

Great Murray!

[lovelygurl1208]

This "Tristesse" song is the song of my life. I just love it and I love it more than any other music I ever heard :)...!!! Just beautifully played and written by Chopin :D.

[math99954321]

Linda, maravilhosa, emocionante.

Eu amo música clássica e erudita.

[jgfs58]

A música mais linda do mundo nos meus 52 anos, e olha que fui apresentado a ela pelo meu saudoso pai e não "entendi" tão pouco gostei. Mais hoje vejo o quanto estava errado.

Tudo de bom

[sparklegirl007]

No joke, but this piece isn't just music, it's pure liquid emotion. Every single note resonates of love and quiet passion, with hints of nostalgia just below the surface. When I listen to this, I think to myself 'How can the world be seem so terrible if we have music like this around us?' I listen, I forget and I dream. Simple as. 

[PervySensai]

Terribly Sad.

[RecklessRockerr]

I can play this non stop, that's seriously how much i love it! ♥

[AllstarzRock]

in the process of learning it, can't wait to see how it turns out! :D

[VlogNationXD]

Man, I remember playing this as a kid but I forgot and no longer have sheet music, DANG!!! that SUCKS Hardcore!!!

[timmhg]

Timeless, as only the masterpieces are.

[Cloudnerd]

i want to hire a pianist to play this for me on my deathbed when I am old and crunchy :D

It would be a lovely last thing to hear <3

[mrgouls]

@Cloudnerd I currently take piano lessons and I know a simplified version of this lol. I do plan on learning this sometime in the near future. I can play it for you lol

[Cloudnerd]

@mrgouls Woooohoooo! Death, here I come! :B

[TLOZMT]

@Cloudnerd i must agree with you

[3Annika7]

@Cloudnerd

My father told me to play it at his funeral...

[Llawliet246]

@Cloudnerd ...crunchy?

[Babr900]

@Cloudnerd

you've still got time, learn to play it!

[DICACIO1]

@Cloudnerd i'll play it for ya on your Deathbed!...but don't look too crunchy or i might get too distracted and miss a few notes LOL

[ItsMovieTimeProd]

@Cloudnerd i agree dude

[BreakerdeGodot]

@Cloudnerd Crunchy?

[forestdweller68]

The etudes are beautiful but especially this one. Poet of the piano, dear Chopin your music moves us all these years later- your music will live forever.

[LilyGirl02]

I love this piece!!

[goosebump666]

famous..dont understand those person which dont like it...

[yoly328]

This is one of my favorite pieces from Chopin. !

[SqueekyMonkey101]

Too beautiful to be an etude...

[colourfulwithaU]

@SqueekyMonkey101

The hard thing about it is making it sound beautiful. If you play the notes as written - which almost any pianist can do - it sounds ugly and flat. You have to emphasise and sustain certain notes, and hide others to make the melody come out as it is supposed to. Also, tempo manipulation must be just right. Some pieces are beautiful no matter who plays them (like, for example, Chopin's nocturne in Eb), but this one requires extreme technical prowess, control, and intuition.

[dennis0mus]

@SqueekyMonkey101 chopins etudes are the exepction to every etude in the world...

[GinnyGirl53]

One of the most emotive pieces of music I have ever heard - wonderful

[jellyfish1104]

I love it.........

[TheDeadImmortals]

Absolutely adore this song and love playing it every chance I get.

[sailingrad]

As I listen to Chopin, even I am proud that I am Polish, but just as I listen to it !!!!!

[sailingrad]

Jak słucham Chopina to nawet jestem dumny ze swojej polskości, ale tylko jak go słucham!!!!!

[edbn24]

woah there buddy watch ur language, no one needs that kinda language on a video like this

[atemlos2585]

@defern64

Chopin was actually Polish.

[defern64]

@atemlos2585 I'm aware of that. He was born half-polish half-french...lived in paris but maintained a strong polish identity...all of that. Apparently my friend put that there because I do not remember postin that or having any motivation to.

[susya]

Excellent. Thank you. The title for the vocalized version is " No Other Love".

[patbetsad]

I love it. :'(

[JOseyIzUrs89]

this song is sad

[MusicCentral12390]

i know =(

[bag3lmonst3r]

Well, "tristesse" means "sorrow" in French. :)

Btw, I think Perahia gave this piece a Baroque feel in the middle. He could have used a bit more rubato.