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Although it is not known exactly when Chopin first met Franz Liszt after arriving in Paris, on 12 December 1831 he mentioned in a letter to his friend Woyciechowski that "I have met Rossini, Cherubini, Baillot, etc.–also Kalkbrenner. You would not believe how curious I was about Herz, Liszt, Hiller, etc." [72] Liszt was in attendance at Chopin's Parisian debut on 26 February 1832 at the Salle Pleyel, which led him to remark: "The most vigorous applause seemed not to suffice to our enthusiasm in the presence of this talented musician, who revealed a new phase of poetic sentiment combined with such happy innovation in the form of his art." [73]

Reiss, Jozef; Brown, Maurice (1980). "Polonaise". In Sadie, Stanley (ed.). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Vol.15. London: Macmillan Publishers. pp.49=52. ISBN 978-0-333-23111-1. Liszt, Franz (1880). Life of Chopin. Translated by Cook, Martha Walker (4thed.). Project Gutenberg . Retrieved 28 March 2021. The Bill Evans Trio, with Symphony Orchestra, played this prelude in 1965, with an arrangement penned by Claus Ogerman. For this album, the prelude was titled "Blue Interlude".

Chopin Prelude 9, op. 28

The biography of Chopin published in 1863 under the name of Franz Liszt (but probably written by Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein) [210] states that Chopin "must be ranked first among the first musicians... individualizing in themselves the poetic sense of an entire nation". [211] Chopin, Fryderyk (1962). Selected Correspondence of Fryderyk Chopin. Translated by Hedley, Arthur. Compiled by Bronisław Edward Sydow. London: Heinemann. Hedley, Arthur (2005). "Chopin, Frédéric (François)". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol.3 (15thed.). Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. pp.263–264. Chopin's music is frequently played with rubato, "the practice in performance of disregarding strict time, 'robbing' some note-values for expressive effect". [201] There are differing opinions as to how much, and what type, of rubato is appropriate for his works. Charles Rosen comments that "most of the written-out indications of rubato in Chopin are to be found in his mazurkas... It is probable that Chopin used the older form of rubato so important to Mozart... [where] the melody note in the right hand is delayed until after the note in the bass... An allied form of this rubato is the arpeggiation of the chords thereby delaying the melody note; according to Chopin's pupil Karol Mikuli, Chopin was firmly opposed to this practice." [202] The Prelude Op. 28, No. 15, by Frédéric Chopin, known as the "Raindrop" prelude, is one of the 24 Chopin preludes. It is one of Chopin's most famous works. [1] Usually lasting between five and seven minutes, this is the longest of the preludes. The prelude is noted for its repeating A ♭, which appears throughout the piece and sounds like raindrops to many listeners. [1] Composition [ edit ]

Could It Be Magic" by Barry Manilow is based on Prelude No. 20 and reached No. 6 on the US charts in 1975. The song was later covered by Donna Summer and Take That. The song was also covered by French singer Alain Chamfort in 1975 under the title «Le Temps qui court». Chopin sacrificed himself by playing the organ at the Elevation – and what an organ! Anyhow our boy made the best of it by using the less discordant stops, and he played Schubert's Die Sterne, not with a passionate and glowing tone that Nourrit used, but with a plaintive sound as soft as an echo from another world. Two or three at most among those present felt its meaning and had tears in their eyes. [96]His] playing was always noble and beautiful; his tones sang, whether in full forte or softest piano. He took infinite pains to teach his pupils this legato, cantabile style of playing. His most severe criticism was 'He–or she–does not know how to join two notes together.' He also demanded the strictest adherence to rhythm. He hated all lingering and dragging, misplaced rubatos, as well as exaggerated ritardandos[...] and it is precisely in this respect that people make such terrible errors in playing his works. [203] Instruments Chopin's last ( Pleyel) piano, which he used in 1848–49 ( Fryderyk Chopin Museum, Warsaw)

Downes, Stephen (2001). "Eros and PanEuropeanism". In White, Harry; Murphy, Michael (eds.). Musical Constructions of Nationalism: Essays on the History and Ideology of European Musical Culture 1800–1945. Cork: Cork University Press. pp.51–71. ISBN 978-1-85918-322-9.

Waltzes Nos 1-14. Mazurka No 32. Barcarolle, Op 60. Nocturne in D flat

Chopin took the new salon genre of the nocturne, invented by the Irish composer John Field, to a deeper level of sophistication. He was the first to write ballades [151] and scherzi as individual concert pieces. He essentially established a new genre with his own set of free-standing preludes (Op.28, published 1839). He exploited the poetic potential of the concept of the concert étude, already being developed in the 1820s and 1830s by Liszt, Clementi, and Moscheles, in his two sets of studies (Op.10 published in 1833, Op.25 in 1837). [152] Taruskin, Richard (1996). Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-816250-6.

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