"The student should concentrate on: Perfecting polyphonic playing - Expressive intensity of tone - Legato. Particular difficulties: Individual tone for each of the simultaneous melodic lines - Extension. The feverish and concentrated character of this Study (too often played "Adagio", inspite of Chopin having marked it "Andante" without further metronomic specification) does not admit of playing the figure in semiquavers either in a flavourless shade of "piano" or a colourless legato which would reduce this figure to being only an accompaniment."
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