Leonard Bernstein said in his opening intro of Saint-Saëns’s Carnival of the Animals,
Music has lots of different uses in life. There are pieces that lift your spirit or interest your mind, or fill you with religious or passionate or dreamy or triumphant feelings. But some pieces are written only to amuse you. And one of them is…
Chopin’s ‘Wrong Note’ etudes
Chopin’s etudes are notoriously difficult — in terms of both technicality and musicality. The No.5 of his 12 Etudes series (Op. 25), the ‘Wrong Note’ borrows motives from other famous piano works, but applies funny intentional wrong notes. The piece sounds lighthearted but is deceptively hard (Reddit).
Can you tell which piece Chopin borrowed?