Étude in A minorOp. 10 No. 2

The second of Chopin's twelve Études Op. 10, published in 1833. A nimble study for the right hand, whose outer fingers spin a smooth chromatic line while the thumb and index finger tap short chords above a light bass. Three years after its publication, Carl Czerny, who had often hosted Chopin in Vienna, included a study in his own collection that opens like a parody of it.