F. Chopin - Waltz D-flat major Op. 64 no. 1 "Minute Waltz" - Analysis. Greg Niemczuk's lecture.

[@joannabobrowska9529]

Dzień dobry, poznałam Pana na egzaminie maturalnym Eleonory. Potem byłam na widowni Państwa koncertu w BCK. Ta seria jest fenomenalna. Zapisuję się do grona najbardziej zagorzałych (psycho)fanów. "Thank you for the music. For giving it to me".

[@jenskluge7188]

This is great fun to play and everyone likes it. I recently tried it out. Applause is guaranteed. It helps to have such a tutorial, actually i used another good tutorial on youtube plus my own analysis.

[@chrisainsworth6358]

This was excellent, thank you. I've never thought about this piece in the way you have explained it. Greetings from Australia.

[@gregniemczuk]

Thanks!! Best wishes!

[@thewordbtrue2461]

You're magnificent 🥰! I can only dream of playing so confidently. I love Chopin and play several of his works....so I am very interested in the background and history you so freely provide. Thank you

[@hshlom]

Thank ypu Greg for another amazing video. When I start watching, i always hope to see more technical details, but what you show is always helpful, insightful and fun!

[@Tender121]

Excellent! Thank you for the analysis. Greetings from Athens.

[@cimbalok2972]

Beautiful rendition. Thank you for posting.

[@bleaks218]

When I listen to the middle section I hear tension and instability despite the immense beauty in the passage (the most beautiful I've ever heard, I think). The situation you described of the dog chasing its tail and the aristocrats all socialising and dancing is apt, but I imagine this middle passage more as a brief lull in an otherwise happy day for Chopin, where the gentle caress of finality touches on him. The lower notes of the right hand melody portray this, I think. As a very depressed man, I imagine Chopin contemplated death often, and I think this feeling of great contentment would inevitably retrieve these same thoughts. But they are tinged with beauty (the higher notes in the right hand), creating a paradoxical duality between them. Perhaps this unlikely combination was borne from such profound happiness in that moment, that Chopin thought he was complete, and could simply die happy. Ultimately this 'finality' is averted and it reverts to the playful theme. But the 'finality' does not end in finality. No, it lingers just out of sight. Your analyses adds a whole new layer to Chopin's music for me. A brief glimpse into the context of his compositions makes a world of difference. Keep it up!

[@gregniemczuk]

Thanks for watching and for enriching this video with your long and beautiful comment!

[@fatimaazar6513]

You’ve explained it in a very amusing and understandable way thank you so much 🤍

[@EpicXBoy]

Amazing work i love the series, please do waltz op64 no2 also

[@gregniemczuk]

Of course! This Saturday!

[@laurie7357]

Your french pronunciation never fails to make me smile! 😂

[@gregniemczuk]

🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹😁😁😁

[@gregniemczuk]

I'd love to learn French better! I gave up after two years of learning 😔

[@laurie7357]

@@gregniemczuk French is a very lovely yet complicated language. It can get confusing, even for us native speakers... 😅 But i think we agree that music is the most beautiful language of all! ❤️🎶

[@frankpizarro122]

How interesting explanation. Love the details behind such a creative beautiful melody. I’m learning this waltz right now in my piano and is not tokay easy especially fast like you play it. My fingers get confused.

[@ChuchoCarreta]

Excellent analysis my talented friend, successes with your great job and thanks for share, greetings from Bogota, Colombia.

[@gregniemczuk]

Muchísimas gracias!

[@ChuchoCarreta]

@@gregniemczuk I have a question, what its the chord of measure 44 or 45 its like a Db/B for go to Fm/C?

[@michaeltravisano3321]

Thank you so much for this terrific analysis - very helpful! (I'm a pianist who came here in search of some help to "that phrase" that you pointed out, but your whole video was a real joy to watch.) Your mentioning of elephants climbing trees made me think of a joke, which I'd like to offer as a tiny amount of compensation for your video's help: Why do you never see elephants hiding in trees? (...because they're so good at it).

[@gregniemczuk]

Hahahahaha!! Thanks!! Good luck with this piece and have fun with it!

[@rothschildianum]

Great explanation....No wonder, I always had problem that 3/4 and 2/2.

[@gregniemczuk]

Thank you!!!

[@pnielloj.m3265]

Hi sir I'm now learning this song and I must say again your analysist is been really helpfull thankyou very much😀

[@gregniemczuk]

So happy to know that!! Good luck and have fun!

[@Hellofriend88]

I listen to your channel instead of music in the car sometimes. ❤️

[@gregniemczuk]

Thank you! It's so good to hear!

[@pyrokinetikrlz]

I am about to finish learning this piece and everything you said really: a)Resonated with me or b) taught me something. Thanks! :D

[@gregniemczuk]

Wonderful!! Thank you!

[@ewapiano1222]

Good evening.How nice to meet you again

[@peterbrenton410]

What students need to be aware of is what it states about the title and intended tempo of this piece in Wikipedia-👍 TempoEdit The piece is given the tempo marking Molto vivace. Although it has long been known as the "Minute" Waltz, its nickname was intended to mean "small" (pronounced my-newt') in the sense of a "miniature" waltz, given by its publisher.[2] Chopin did not intend for this waltz to be played in one minute. A typical performance of the work will last between 1+1⁄2 and 2+1⁄2 minutes.[3] The waltz is 140 measures long with one fifteen-measure repeat included, and thus it would have to be played at almost 420 quarter notes per minute in order to play it completely within a single minute. Playing the piece as fast as possible is still a feat some pianists attempt.[4] Camille Bourniquel, one of Chopin's biographers, reminds the reader that Chopin got the inspiration for this waltz as he was watching a small dog chase its tail, which prompted the composer to name the piece Valse du petit chien, meaning "The Little Dog Waltz".[5][6

[@nathalieraibolt6315]

Lovely ❤❤

[@francescabono387]

Bravissimo

[@gregniemczuk]

Thank you!

[@ewapiano1222]

Thank youE

[@mistycat1228]

incredible performance! so interesting,so marvelously played: Unique!! why not all the waltz as for the nocturnes?

[@gregniemczuk]

Thank you! I don't understand the question ❓

[@mistycat1228]

@@gregniemczuk I found on your official channel all nocturnes but only 8 waltz analysed, is there more somewhere? Thank you so much for this information and for the quick response you already made to my comment.

[@gregniemczuk]

@@mistycat1228 ahhh, now I understand. Originally the project was only about pieces published during Chopin's life. Later I started to add posthumous works. I'll probably analyse also the rest of posthumous Waltzes soon! Stay tuned.

[@mistycat1228]

@@gregniemczuk So great! Of course I wait with deep emotion! Have a sunny end of year in your heart!

[@gregniemczuk]

@@mistycat1228 thank you and you too!! Any particular Waltz you're waiting for?

[@PhilHarrison762]

You have no idea how interesting this is to an Englishman!! I have never come across the title "Dog" until today. Yes, surely a musical portrait of the Countess and her dog. For many, many years there was a very popular radio programme in Britain "Just a minute" in which a contestant had to speak continuously for a whole minute "without pause, repetition or deviating from the subject" and the other contestants could challenge the speaker if they thought they heard any of these. Of course, the 'signature tune' for the programme was ' the minute waltz' - and so it is part of life for whole generations of Britons!!! (Do people try to do this in Poland for a game? It's NOT easy!!)

[@gregniemczuk]

No! We don't have this game. It sounds like fun!

[@PhilHarrison762]

@@gregniemczuk You would be very good at it!!! I marvel at your fluency in your second language while concentrating on playing, and expressing your thoughts.

[@gregniemczuk]

@@PhilHarrison762 hahahahahah, yes, I'd be the best!

[@PhilHarrison762]

@@gregniemczuk You'd get challenged for repetition of 'shocking' !! 🤣🤣🤣

[@Tbilii]

"la petite chene" 6:04 🤣🤣, your french accent is the best :).... i love ur videos very much,u have so funny humble personality,i wish u reach a lot more subscirbers very soon

[@gregniemczuk]

Merci! I love French, but I consider it as an extremely hard especially to pronounce it well. Thank you for your words! Feel free to share my videos with the world. Best wishes!

[@miraynakkas3038]

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[@peterbrenton410]

Rather than bells in the bell motif, I think it is the dog barking as it gets more and more frustrated maybe !? "Yap!....Yap!"

[@gregniemczuk]

Yes, it may be!!!

[@peterbrenton410]

Indeed-maybe barks or maybe-bells?😉​@@gregniemczuk

[@divine3232]

I was a little delusional when I thought I was too old to learn this composition 6 years after I quit Classical piano lessons at 19 years old. Clearly, no one is never too old to learn any composition by Chopin. I have always thought Classical Piano was only appropriate for pianists that didn't feel challenged by it that much or needed to practice at least 4 hours a day and that has kept me from enhancing the little talent I had on the piano as much as possible. I might need a highly experienced piano teacher to not only give me one hour lessons, but would need to have my piano lessons monitored as well by a piano teacher for at least one year, for the sake of being incredibly focused on every little detail Classical piano involves, should I choose to start "playing the piano" properly.

[@gregniemczuk]

Hi. Yes, you should never discourage yourself! I have a few online students who got back to piano after some break, who are not professional pianists but now they're playing Chopin's etudes! And they love it! Passion is the most important motivation!

[@divine3232]

@@gregniemczuk That is amazing. It's mind blowing what a person can accomplish with an insane amount of focus and discipline. Blessings to you. Dziękuję.

[@benr7882]

Hi Greg! I just want to let you know that you have the right idea but I think you have been misinformed on the details of this Waltz. One of Chopin’s biographers, Camille Bourniquel, discovered that this waltz has been inspired by a dog chasing it’s tail. This detail come from his biography “Chopin”. The dog was actually Sand’s dog Marquis. Marquis was a Bichon Frisé. As Chopin and La Sand were watching Marquis chase his tail Sand remarked, “If I had your talent, I would compose a piano piece for this dog” then Chopin composed the “Minute Waltz” we have all come to love so dearly.

[@benr7882]

This comes from Chopin’s letters.

[@gregniemczuk]

Yes yes yes!!!

[@gregniemczuk]

Thank you so much. Of course now I know that. Today I'm premiering "Galop Marquis" which is about the same dog (and Dib). I was mistaken because of Chopin's dedication of this Waltz op.64

[@briancoveney3080]

This is the "dog-chasing-his-tail" piece.

[@peterchan6082]

Hey Greg, Have you not yet completed the Chopin Waltzes? I couldn't find Waltz No.17 in E-flat major B.46 . . . This one . . . kzbin.info/www/bejne/oHq7hKNsjs6Nj9k&pp=ygUQY2hvcGluIHdhbHR6IGI0Ng%3D%3D

[@gregniemczuk]

Hi Peter! Yes, correct. It's not done because this Waltz is NOT 100% confirmed to be authentic Chopin's piece....

[@peterchan6082]

Oh really 🙄? That's interesting! But at least the Paderewski Edition of the Chopin Waltzes has this one as No.17, and a total of 19 waltzes. Why is that?

[@gregniemczuk]

@@peterchan6082 because they didn't have sources to question it. In newest editions it does not appear (like National Ekier Edition for example)

[@sarahavena8537]

2 minutes & 30 seconds 😂

[@gregniemczuk]

😂😂😂😂😂