Chopin - Etudes for Piano

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Chopin is the inventor and patron of the "étude de concert". The études by Frédéric Chopin are three sets of solo studies for the piano, There are 27 overall, comprising two separate collections of twelve, numbered Opus 10 and 25, and a set of three without opus number.

Étude Op. 10, No. 12 in C minor known as The Revolutionary Étude, is a solo piano work by Frédéric Chopin written circa 1831. It is the 12th of his first set of etudes - "Douze Grandes Etudes" dedicated to "son ami Franz Liszt" (his friend Franz Liszt). The two sets of Études, Opus 10 and 25, are known collectively as the Chopin Études, although Chopin also contributed three other lesser known études (the Trois Nouvelles Études).