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An etude (from the French word ''étude'' meaning "study") is a short Musical Composition designed to provide practice in a particular technical skill in the performance of a solo instrument. For example, Frédéric Chopin 's etude Op. 25 No. 6 trains Pianist s to play rapid parallel chromatic Third s, Op. 25 No. 7 emphasizes the production of singing tone in a Polyphonic melody, and Op. 25 No. 10 covers parallel Octave s. HISTORY AND FUNCTION Musical studies have been composed since the 18th Century , most notably by Carl Czerny , but it was Chopin who transformed the etude into an important musical genre. Etudes can be in many forms and are sometimes grouped into larger schemes — Robert Schumann 's '' Études Symphoniques '' bears the title, in its second version, Études en forme de Variations. {Link without Title} Etudes for other instruments have been written as well, for example Rodolphe Kreutzer 's etudes for the Violin and Villa-Lobos ' etudes for the Guitar . The etudes that are most widely admired are those which transcend their practical function and come to be appreciated simply as music. For example, Chopin's etudes are considered not just technically difficult, but also musically very powerful and expressive. In contrast, Czerny's are generally regarded as being only technically difficult. Thus Chopin's etudes are continually performed before appreciative audiences, whereas Czerny's are confined to the practice room. An extreme case is found in the etudes that would scarcely qualify as music, being composed of repetitive figures intended purely as physical exercise. Of these, the best known are the 60 etudes of The Virtuoso Pianist by Charles-Louis Hanon (1873). LIST OF ETUDE COMPOSERS For the piano Born before 1700
Born 1700–1799
Born 1800–1850
Born 1850–1899
Born after 1900
For other instruments
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