This Chopin Sonata Is Cleverer Than You Think...

Join composer Frederick Viner as he delves into Chopin's 3rd sonata and a particularly clever (and possibly accidental) characteristic of its themes.

1) Intro (Chopin 3) - 0:00

2) Educational Abominations - 1:14

Beethoven 'Waldstein' - 1:20
Mozart 16 - 1:36
Beethoven 1 - 1:47

3) Two Sides of the Same Coin - 2:10

Haydn 53 - 2:16
Beethoven 'Appassionata' - 2:36

4) Dodgy yet Catchy- 3:06

Chopin 2 - 3:06
Mozart 8 - 3:18

5) - The Most Successful Example (Scriabin 3) - 3:32

6) Coincidence? - 4:58

7) Outro - 5:43

Many thanks to ‪@charlottehupianist‬ (www.chingyunhu.com) who kindly gave permission for her recording to be featured in this video. Check out her sensational performance of Chopin's Sonata No. 3 here:    • Charlotte Hu (胡瀞云) plays Chopin Sonat...  

All other extracts and abominations were performed by Frederick Viner.

The discovery regarding Chopin's Sonata No. 3 was made by musicologist Hugo Leichtentritt, and documented in the following: Leichtentritt, Hugo - Analyse von Chopin’schen Klavierwerke (Berlin, 1921-22): Volume 2, 249. I was made aware of this via Alan Walker's incredible biography: Walker, Alan - Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times (London: Faber and Faber, 2018): 480.

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