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A piano etude usually is a shorter piece (a study) which would be no more than a few minutes long. They usually demand transcendental techniques and high levels of virtuosity. Frederic Chopin and Chales Valentin Alkan are two popular composers for etudes.
Nocturnes (night pieces) are one movement pieces featuring melodic lines with accompanied broken chords. Slower pace terms such as Lento, Larghetto are often used. K.S. Sorabji composed over 30 nocturnes for solo piano where Frederic Chopin composed 21.
A piano sonata is a cyclic work with (two), three or four (occasionally more) movements where the first movement (at least) follows the sonata form. A usaul sonata with three movements have fast, slow and fast movements, where a minuet or scherzo and trio is added between the second and third movements to make it a four movement composition. It was prominent in the entire classica period. L. v. Beethoven composed 32 piano sonatas where W.A. Mozart composed 19 of them.
A piano ballade is a large scale one movement piece which is usually consists of lyrical and dramatic narrative qualities built on certain melodic themes. Frederic Chopin, Gabriel Faure and Franz Liszt were notable composers for ballades for piano solo.
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