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Title: Maurizio Pollini Chopin: Nocturnes

Composer: Frederic Chopin

Performing artists: Does not list

Frederic Chopin was one of the great masters of romantic music. Chopin’s pieces were initially written for the piano to play a solo part.. Several of Chopin’s pieces have become very well known now. For example the Minute Waltz which is also a very popular dance shortened to the “waltz“. His style often had great depth and emotion in his music. Chopin’s style had also become very influential to many other great musicians. Robert Schumann was a huge admirer of Chopin’s music, and he used melodies from Chopin and even named a piece from his suite Carnaval after Chopin.

Chopin lived in the 1800s, and he was educated in the tradition of Beethoven, Hayden, Mozart and Clementi. He even used Clementi’s piano method with his own students. Chopin cited Bach and Mozart as the two most important composers in shaping his musical outlook.

Chopin was a genius of universal appeal. His music attracts the most diverse audiences. All over the world men and women know his music. They love it and they are emotionally moved by it. I feel that many of his pieces in the CD give off a romantic sense, which is the feeling that I think he is trying to get across. I like the changes that he makes in speed from the beginning to the end which really helps make the kind of mood he is trying to progress. Chopin mostly uses the piano as the main voice in the piece, and I feel that it works the best with the piano.