In response to a questionnaire sent to American readers recently by "The etude," a musical magazine, 7,500 out of nearly 32,000 persons who replied named "Abide with me" as their favorite hymn.
"The Story of Our Hymns"
Ernest Edwin Ryden
But he did not remain in the Bavarian capital, hastening to Stuttgart, where he heard of the capture of Warsaw by the Russians, September 8, 1831. This news, it is said, was the genesis of the great C minor etude in opus 10, sometimes called the "Revolutionary."
"Chopin: The Man and His Music"
James Huneker
Riemann has his own ideas of the phrasing of the following one, the fifth and familiar "Black Key" etude.
"Chopin: The Man and His Music"
James Huneker