Chopin 'Fantasie-Impromptu' - History & Tutorial - Paul Barton, piano

A few personal thoughts on possible motives Chopin might have had for refusing publication of this well known piece during his lifetime, with practice and performance tips.

Made for and at the suggestion of a viewer: http://www.youtube.com/o0December0o

A number of free scores of Fantasie-Impromptu Op.66 in the public domain, including the Mikuli & Godowsky editions: http://imslp.org/wiki/Fantaisie-impromptu,_Op.66_(Chopin,_Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric)

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[Praptolium]

Whenever I play anything by chopin it just leaves me feeling self conscious :( 

[PaulBartonPiano]

@Praptolium -- When I play anything by Chopin it just leaves me feeling I should practice more :)

[lolmachinez]

You are a very wonderful person, your tutorial has given me the strength to take on this piece. Like many amateurs, this has been one of my lifelong goals, i have been wanting to learn this for decades, but could not because of my lack in ability. You have shed light into the technicalities of this piece, something that i have struggled to understand. With this tutorial, i have full confidence that i can achieve this goal. Thank you and god bless you.

[PaulBartonPiano]

@lolmachinez -- Thank you very much. I'm so pleased you feel you can achieve your goal and sense, not only will you play it, but it will be your very best piece. Good luck with it.

[BernieDegnan]

Without your video, i wouldnt even be close to being able to play fantasie. Thanks!

Youre great!

[crookstubes]

Thanks for your help, ive been trying to master this piece for years.

Geoff



[losinggrip1993]

In my Edition Peters copy of Fantasie Impromptu, it states that another belief for Chopin not publishing the piece is that it was composed solely for personal use to its dedicatee, Baroness d'Este. The history of this piece is very fascinating. Thanks again for sharing the information and your own opinion! :)

[losinggrip1993]

Thank you for sharing some of this information which is so often ignored. The general belief is that Chopin wanted all his unpublished works burnt, because he believed they weren't up to his normal standard, but I never knew he sold this Impromptu to a private party and couldn't publish it. Very interesting. I always felt the piece was far too passionate and genius, and couldn't understand why Chopin wanted it destroyed. He also made careful revisions to it, and there's more than one manuscript!

[Adenoz5]

thank You.

[jmccolley07]

Thank you for this video, it is excellent! I have been playing this piece for years, but I never knew the history behind it. I have not been able to get it up to it's proper speed without it falling apart. You have inspired me to work on that. Great job!

[foreverdream1]

Thank you very much!

[Medicalcure]

I can´t believe why people do not to see how greatfull (particularly enjoyable) are this tutorial, it details exactly the perfromance, debelopment in the most great and fast way to learn fantasie impromptu, even if im a novice in this world, your tutorials make my introduce chopin and learned etude 25no01, and i cant believe the fast progress in this piece (one of the best), so very thank you Paul Barton, i will wait for new tutorials. Have a nice day

[SilverPhoenix13]

This is a beautiful piece of music that I've wanted to be able to do for years. My problem is that I lack confidence in my own abilities. Another problem when I want to learn new melodies is that I can't read sheet music. I've played piano for many years, but I just can't make the connection between the sheets and the piano, even if I know how the sheet music work. I've tried many times, but the notes are just black dots on a paper to me. Very frustrating. Thanks for posting this tutorial though

[epadif]

Excellent tutorial, and thank you so much. I have been playing piano for two years, i and i can play the start slowly, but when i try to play it faster, i can´t. What can i do to improve my technique and play it better?

thanks and btw, sorry for my english but i´m mexican