Fantasie-Impromptu in C-Sharp Minor (Op. 66)
Annotated Study Edition (7)
Bars 119 - 122
The coda is in two parts; the impassioned first part (from bar 119-128) and the melancholic closing paragraph with the central theme now in the LH (bar 129-end). The main melodic line might be felt thus, the repeated G#s softer and on another level (as though played by another instrument): This exercise, similar to previous ones, will help stabilise and free up the rotations: Despite the ff at the beginning of bars 121 and 123, the new phrase seems more natural from the E, a beat later (a...