Dedicated to Ossip Gabrilowitsch. Étude romantique is not a virtuosic étude in the conventional sense but an étude de caractère that transforms pianistic technique into expressive lyricism. Centered on G-flat major, the work unfolds through a refined harmonic design characterized by chromatic voice leading, common-tone diminished seventh chords, and tonicizations of distant tonal regions. Its tonal plan traces five key areas—G-flat major, F-sharp minor, G major, B minor, and a return to G-flat major within an ABCDA formal structure. Enoch plate 6973.