Inquiétude (25 Etudes faciles, Op. 100, No. 18)

Learn this piece

Composer

Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller

Level

Intermediate

Key

E minor

Metre

2/4

Tempo

138 BPM

Length

31 bars, about 1 minute

Hands

both

Trains

Restlessness in E minor, Allegro agitato, 2/4: slurred groups of three sixteenth notes after a sixteenth rest in the right hand, each released on the rest, over short staccato chords in the left hand on the beats. In the coda (bars 25-29, forte) the left hand takes a line of quarter notes.

How to practise it

• Every right-hand group starts after a sixteenth rest, so feel the rest on the beat and lift off after the third note. Loop bars 1-4 at 80 BPM until the rests sound even.
• In bars 1-5 the left-hand chords are short and fall on the beats, exactly where the right hand rests. Listen that the two hands lock together and the chords stay p.
• In the forte coda, bars 25-29, the right hand drops below middle C and the left hand walks in quarter notes. Practise these bars hands separately at 80 BPM before you join them.

Where this score came from

Licence: Public domain

https://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/piece-info.cgi?id=230

Credit: Typeset by Bas Wassink for the Mutopia Project (Mutopia-2013/01/12-230) from the Collection Litolff (19th century), and placed in the public domain by the typesetter.

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