It
is effective. The average metronomic marking is sixty-nine to the
half.
Kullak thinks the twelfth and last study of op. 25 in C minor "a
grand, magnificent composition for practice in broken chord
passages for both hands, which requires no comment." I differ
from this worthy teacher. Rather is Niecks more to my taste: "No.
12, C minor, in which the emotions rise not less high than the
waves of arpeggios which symbolize them."
Von Bulow is didactic:
The requisite strength for this grandiose bravura study can
only be attained by the utmost clearness, and thus only by a
gradually increasing speed. It is therefore most desirable to
practise it piano also by way of variety, for otherwise the
strength of tone might easily degenerate into hardness, and in
the poetic striving after a realistic portrayal of a storm on
the piano the instrument, as well as the piece, would come to
grief.
The pedal is needful to give the requisite effect, and must
change with every new harmony; but it should only be used in
the latter stages of study, when the difficulties are nearly
mastered.
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