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Étude in F major, Op. 47 No. 9

Stephen Heller (1,813–1,888)

First published
1849
Key
F major
Style
Studies
Level
Level 5
Roughly
RCM 5 · ABRSM 5 · Trinity 5 · Henle 3
Lesson
Musicianship
Focus
technical study (see title for the specific figure)

What its lesson teaches

5.8 Practise dominant sevenths

Study Heller’s Etude in F, Op. 47 No. 9. In bars 13 and 15, hear the dominant-seventh harmony on C resolve to F; in bars 2–3, count the left hand’s double-dotted held notes exactly while its upper notes move. Rest between repetitions. At the keyboard: play I–ii6–I64–V7–I.

Technique
  • F major scale, hands separately, 2 octaves

Edition and licence

Score: Musalea, from a public-domain edition · public domain

Etude in F · Op. 47 · No. 9

Read from, and checked against, these public-domain editions:

Edition: Leipzig: C.F. Peters, ca. 1915, plate 10002, ed. Adolf Ruthardt (1934)

Published: 1915

Source: https://imslp.org/wiki/Special:ImagefromIndex/55541

Edition: Carisch & Jänichen, 1911, plate 12147, ed. Bruno Mugellini (1912)

Source: https://imslp.org/wiki/Special:ImagefromIndex/462083

Edition: Sassetti, ed. José Vianna da Motta (1948)

Source: https://imslp.org/wiki/Special:ImagefromIndex/955228

Public-domain source edition(s).

Checked bar by bar against IMSLP #55541 (C.F. Peters, Leipzig, ca. 1915, plate 10002, ed. Adolf Ruthardt), p. 17, 2026-10-28: every bar compared; 0 bars corrected.

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