Fantaisie-Impromptu Piano Visualizer
Chopin's Fantaisie-Impromptu as falling notes on a glowing keyboard, played on a clean grand piano. Restyle it and export the video, or drop your own recording or MIDI file.
Fantaisie-Impromptu at a glance
- Work
- Fantaisie-Impromptu in C♯ minor, Op. 66 (posthumous)
- Composer
- Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
- Composed
- 1834
- Published
- 1855, after Chopin's death
- Key
- C♯ minor
- Tempo
- Allegro agitato
- Difficulty
- Advanced
- The demo plays
- The stormy opening section, 61 s
What you see in the falling notes
The two hands play different rhythms at once: the right hand runs in groups of four while the left hand rolls arpeggios in groups of three. In split-hands colours you can see it directly, a dense, fast stream in the treble over a wider, slower wave in the bass.
- 987notes
- 16.3notes per second on average
- 24notes in the busiest second
- 7notes sounding at once, at most
- G1 to E770 keys from the lowest note to the highest
- 31%of the notes below middle C, in the left-hand colour
Counted from the MIDI file of the demo excerpt (61 s). The sustain pedal goes down 63 times.
About Fantaisie-Impromptu
Chopin wrote the Fantaisie-Impromptu in 1834 but never published it, and nobody knows why; one theory says he had sold it to the Baroness d'Este, for whom he wrote out a copy in 1835. After his death his friend Julian Fontana published it in 1855 among his unpublished works, against Chopin's wish that they stay unpublished, as Op. 66.
It is now one of Chopin's most played pieces: a racing C♯ minor section around a slow, singing middle part in D♭ major.
MIDI of the demo: Bernd Krueger, piano-midi.de, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE. Videos made from it carry the same credit and licence (terms). How to make one: step by step.
Famous pieces in falling notes
Frequently Asked Questions
Chopin kept it unpublished, possibly because he had sold it to the Baroness d'Este. His friend Julian Fontana published it in 1855, six years after Chopin died, as Op. 66.
Advanced. The fast right-hand runs have to fit four notes against three in the left hand for the whole outer section, which is the main difficulty.
Yes. The composition is in the public domain, but the MIDI file of this demo is by Bernd Krueger (piano-midi.de) under CC BY-SA 3.0 DE, so a video made from it has to credit him, for example "MIDI: Bernd Krueger, piano-midi.de, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE", and be shared under the same licence. With your own recording or MIDI file of the piece, only your rights to that file count.
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