Chopin Etude Op.10 No.7

Yesterday my angel told me that he thinks that Chopin had such a great talent for melody, that he probably thought of the melody of the Etude Op.10 No.7 in C major, and only afterwords fit it to it's wonderful shivering texture. Chopin himself said to one of his students that the Etude Op. 25 No.1 is a picture of a shepherd playing a beautiful melody on his flute in the rain. Therefore, in this touching image, the melody of this Etude existed in its pure beauty before having added the arpeggio figure, for the listener, far away from the shepherd, hears the melody blurred with drops of rain. When one plays Op. 10 No.7 one should also think first of the melody, and then wonder what is the reason of the beautiful off-beat rhythm in which it appears, which make it sound so illusive and fragile. Perhaps it's a butterfly, fluttering it wings in a spring day; perhaps a girl singing outside in a spring day's afternoon, her song being blurred by the buzz of flying bugs; or maybe its a sparkling fairy, which flies around a boy's shoulder, then joins him in a song, and flies away...