Op. 10,
No. 2, is treated like a left hand study, as it should be. Chopin
did not always give enough work to the left hand, and the first
study of this opus in C is planned on brilliant lines for both
hands. Ingenious is the manipulation of the seldom played op. 25,
No. 5, in E minor. As a study in rhythms and double notes it is
very welcome. The F minor study, op. 25, No. 2, as considered by
the ambidextrous Godowsky, is put in the bass, where it whirrs
along to the melodic encouragement of a theme of the
paraphraser's own, in the right. This study has suffered the most
of all, for Brahms, in his heavy, Teutonic way, set it grinding
double sixths, while Isidor Philipp, in his "Studies for the Left
Hand," has harnessed it to sullen octaves. This Frenchman, by the
way, has also arranged for left hand alone the G sharp minor, the
D flat double sixths, the A minor--"Winter Wind"--studies, the B
flat minor prelude, and, terrible to relate, the last movement of
the Chopin B flat minor Sonata.
Are the Godowsky transcriptions available? Certainly.
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