Sergei Bortkiewicz - Etude Op. 29 No. 3 “La brunne“ (audio + sheet music)

No. 3 “La brune“ (“The brunette“) in C# minor, from 12 Etudes Nouvelles, Op. 29, by Ukrianian composer Sergei Bortkiewicz. (dedicated to Hugo van Dalen) (etudes set composed 1924) Sergei Bortkiewicz (1877-1952) was a Romantic composer and pianist. Bortkiewicz’s piano style was very much based on Liszt and Chopin, nurtured by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, early Scriabin, Wagner and Russian folklore. He was unaffected by the music trends of the 20th century — the composer never saw himself as a “modernist“ as