Thread: Chopin Etude in a movie?

Hi all!
I didn't know whether to post in Identifying Music or here. I was wondering if the Chopin Etude Op. 10 No. 3 has ever been featured in a major movie. I can't remember where I heard it first!
Thanks.

I don't know if it's ever been in a film (I would imagine so, but I know I heard it at least on a TV advert once before), but there are apparently many modern derivatives of the piece:

From Wikipedia

Originally Posted by livemylife

Hi all!
I didn't know whether to post in Identifying Music or here. I was wondering if the Chopin Etude Op. 10 No. 3 has ever been featured in a major movie. I can't remember where I heard it first!
Thanks.

I know it was featured fairly prominently in a 1954 Universal remake of MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION starring Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson. That's the only film that comes to mind, though.

Tom

well, here what you really want to see for Chopin! Chopin Black Key etude and Waltz in C#m

it's a Jay Cho movie "The Secret"

I remember it being used in a movie called 1,000 Clowns (1965) even though there does not seem to be credit given. I hummed that for many moons before discovering what it was. I saw it at age 11 on a Saturday matinee in a small town and there was no access to music as there is today. My favorite Chopin piece.