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Who sculpted Chopin's tombstone?
Clésinger
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What is the name of the muse carved on Chopin's tombstone?
Euterpe
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How much did Chopin's funeral cost?
5,000 francs
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Who paid for Chopin's funeral?
Jane Stirling
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Chopin's sister Ludwika took his heart back to Warsaw preserved in what?
alcohol
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Who designed Chopin's tombstone?
Clésinger.
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How much did Chopin's funeral and monument cost?
5,000 francs
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Who paid for Chopin's funeral?
Jane Stirling
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Who took Chopin's heart to Poland?
sister
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Who ended up with the 200 letters from Sand to Chopin?
Sand
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How many of Chopin's works still exist?
Over 230
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All of his pieces include what instrument?
piano
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How many Chopin pieces are known to have survived?
Over 230
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Only a few of Chopin's pieces involve more than the piano, including piano concertos, songs and what?
chamber music.
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Whose piano method did Chopin teach his students?
Clementi
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Whose piano method did Chopin use with his students?
Clementi
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Who did Chopin say were the two most important composers in his own music influences?
Bach and Mozart
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Chopin looked to Beethoven, Mozart, Clementi and who for his own music education?
Haydn
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Who is credited with creating the nocturne?
John Field
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Chopin was the first person to create what as singular concert pieces?
ballades and scherzi
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What new genre di John Field invent?
nocturne
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Chopin was first in writing what for concerts?
ballades and scherzi
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What musical concept did Chopin exploit?
concert étude
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What three other musicians were developing the new genre?
Liszt, Clementi and Moscheles
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How many polonaises were published while Chopin lived?
seven
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How many polonaises were published after Chopin died?
nine
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Chopin was credited for making what more internationally known?
mazurkas
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What is different about Chopin's waltzes versus a ballroom waltz?
faster tempos
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What did Chopin add to the modern dance of his era?
greater range of melody and expression.
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Chopin's Polish dance music was developed for what type of hall?
concert hall
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What was Chopin responsible for making popular with Euorpeans?
the mazurka
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How many Chopin polonaises were published after his death?
nine
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What dance music of Chopin was written more for recitals than ballrooms?
waltzes
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What is another title Op. 10, No. 12 has garnered?
the Revolutionary Étude
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What is the only piece Chopin gave an actual title to?
Funeral March
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The Funeral March was written as part of what piece?
Sonata No. 2
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How many instrumental works did Chopin give a descriptive name to?
one
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What descriptive name was Op. 10, No. 12 given?
Revolutionary Étude
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What descriptive name was Op. 64, No. 1 given?
Minute Waltz
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What was the last number Chopin gave to an opus?
65
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Who was Chopin's musical executor?
Julian Fontana
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How many unfinished pieces did Julian Fontana make into eight more opus numbers?
23
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Op. 74 is made up of how many Polish songs?
17
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What is the last opus number that Chopin used?
65
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Who grouped 23 unpublished pieces and published them as Opp. 66-73 in 1855?
Julian Fontana
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When was Op. 74 published?
1857
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The Kobylańska Catalogue was named for who?
Krystyna Kobylańska
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Pieces published after what year stopped receiving opus numbers?
1857
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What have pieces published after 1857 been given rather than opus numbers?
alternative catalogue designations
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What is the current musicologist reference for Chopin's pieces?
the Kobylańska Catalogue
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What is the shortened reference for the Kobylańska Catalogue?
KK
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Who compiled the Kobylańska Catalogue?
Krystyna Kobylańska.
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Who released the first collection of Chopin's works?
Breitkopf & Härtel
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Who edited the Polish "National Edition" of Chopin's works?
Jan Ekier
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Maurice Schlesinger and Camille Pleyel were what to Chopin?
original publishers
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Where did Chopin's work start t oshow up?
popular 19th-century piano anthologies.
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What was the name under scholarly publications of Chopin's work form 1937 to 1966?
Paderewski
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Who edited the Polish National Edition?
Jan Ekier
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What is central to Chopin's process?
Improvisation
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Rosen suggests that a central part of Chopin's uniqueness is how he handles what?
the four-bar phrase
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What is central to Chopin's creativeness?
Improvisation
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Who wrote that "improvisation is designed for an audience"?
Nicholas Temperley
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What did Rosen suggest was important about chopin's personality?
his flexible handling of the four-bar phrase as a structural unit.
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What piece does J. Barrie Jones pinpoint as a great example of Chopin's palette?
the Barcarolle Op. 60
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What does J. Barrie Jones feel stands supreme of Chopin's concert pieces?
the four ballades and four scherzos
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What form does Temperley feel that Chopin's ballades and scherzos are based on?
departure and return
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Chopin's mazurkas contain more of what than his other compositions?
folk features
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What form are Chopin's mazurkas and waltzes in?
straightforward ternary or episodic form, sometimes with a coda.
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Which of Chopin's works shows more folk aspects?
mazurkas
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What type of bass do Chopin's mazurkas exhibit?
drone bass
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What does Chopin's Op. 63 No. 3 have that is rare?
a canon at one beat's distance
[ "Frédéric_Chopin\n\nChopin's mazurkas and waltzes are all in straightforward ternary or episodic form, sometimes with a coda. The mazurkas often show more folk features than many of his other works, sometimes including modal scales and harmonies and the use of drone basses. However, some also show unusual sophistic...
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What time are Chopin's polonaises written in?
triple time
[ "Frédéric_Chopin\n\nChopin's polonaises show a marked advance on those of his Polish predecessors in the form (who included his teachers Zywny and Elsner). As with the traditional polonaise, Chopin's works are in triple time and typically display a martial rhythm in their melodies, accompaniments and cadences. Unli...
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Chopin's ability to create an advanced polonasises surpassed even two of his teachers, Zywny and who?
Elsner
[ "Frédéric_Chopin\n\nChopin's polonaises show a marked advance on those of his Polish predecessors in the form (who included his teachers Zywny and Elsner). As with the traditional polonaise, Chopin's works are in triple time and typically display a martial rhythm in their melodies, accompaniments and cadences. Unli...
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Chopin's polonaise often have what kind of rhythm in their melodies?
martial
[ "Frédéric_Chopin\n\nChopin's polonaises show a marked advance on those of his Polish predecessors in the form (who included his teachers Zywny and Elsner). As with the traditional polonaise, Chopin's works are in triple time and typically display a martial rhythm in their melodies, accompaniments and cadences. Unli...
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Chopin's polonaises needed what kind of playing technique?
formidable
[ "Frédéric_Chopin\n\nChopin's polonaises show a marked advance on those of his Polish predecessors in the form (who included his teachers Zywny and Elsner). As with the traditional polonaise, Chopin's works are in triple time and typically display a martial rhythm in their melodies, accompaniments and cadences. Unli...
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How many nocturnes did Chopin compose?
21
[ "Frédéric_Chopin\n\nThe 21 nocturnes are more structured, and of greater emotional depth, than those of Field (whom Chopin met in 1833). Many of the Chopin nocturnes have middle sections marked by agitated expression (and often making very difficult demands on the performer) which heightens their dramatic character...
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What is it about the middle of Chopin's nocturnes that increases their drama?
agitated expression
[ "Frédéric_Chopin\n\nThe 21 nocturnes are more structured, and of greater emotional depth, than those of Field (whom Chopin met in 1833). Many of the Chopin nocturnes have middle sections marked by agitated expression (and often making very difficult demands on the performer) which heightens their dramatic character...
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Chopin's nocturnes were more structured than who?
Field
[ "Frédéric_Chopin\n\nThe 21 nocturnes are more structured, and of greater emotional depth, than those of Field (whom Chopin met in 1833). Many of the Chopin nocturnes have middle sections marked by agitated expression (and often making very difficult demands on the performer) which heightens their dramatic character...
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What year did Chopin meet Field?
1833
[ "Frédéric_Chopin\n\nThe 21 nocturnes are more structured, and of greater emotional depth, than those of Field (whom Chopin met in 1833). Many of the Chopin nocturnes have middle sections marked by agitated expression (and often making very difficult demands on the performer) which heightens their dramatic character...
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Which type of Chopin's compositons were difficult for perfomers due to their middle sections?
nocturnes
[ "Frédéric_Chopin\n\nThe 21 nocturnes are more structured, and of greater emotional depth, than those of Field (whom Chopin met in 1833). Many of the Chopin nocturnes have middle sections marked by agitated expression (and often making very difficult demands on the performer) which heightens their dramatic character...
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What pieces of his did Chopin use to teach his technique?
études
[ "Frédéric_Chopin\n\nChopin's études are largely in straightforward ternary form. He used them to teach his own technique of piano playing—for instance playing double thirds (Op. 25, No. 6), playing in octaves (Op. 25, No. 10), and playing repeated notes (Op. 10, No. 7)." ]
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What form are most of Chopin's études in?
straightforward ternary
[ "Frédéric_Chopin\n\nChopin's études are largely in straightforward ternary form. He used them to teach his own technique of piano playing—for instance playing double thirds (Op. 25, No. 6), playing in octaves (Op. 25, No. 10), and playing repeated notes (Op. 10, No. 7)." ]
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Chopin often taught his piano technique using what form of music he wrote?
études
[ "Frédéric_Chopin\n\nChopin's études are largely in straightforward ternary form. He used them to teach his own technique of piano playing—for instance playing double thirds (Op. 25, No. 6), playing in octaves (Op. 25, No. 10), and playing repeated notes (Op. 10, No. 7)." ]
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What piece of Bach's did Chopin take inspiration for his preludes?
The Well-Tempered Clavier
[ "Frédéric_Chopin\n\nThe preludes, many of which are very brief (some consisting of simple statements and developments of a single theme or figure), were described by Schumann as \"the beginnings of studies\". Inspired by J.S. Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, Chopin's preludes move up the circle of fifths (rather t...
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Who suggested that Chopin's preludes were not intended to be played as a group?
Kenneth Hamilton
[ "Frédéric_Chopin\n\nThe preludes, many of which are very brief (some consisting of simple statements and developments of a single theme or figure), were described by Schumann as \"the beginnings of studies\". Inspired by J.S. Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, Chopin's preludes move up the circle of fifths (rather t...
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What was described as "the beginning of studies" by Schumann?
The preludes
[ "Frédéric_Chopin\n\nThe preludes, many of which are very brief (some consisting of simple statements and developments of a single theme or figure), were described by Schumann as \"the beginnings of studies\". Inspired by J.S. Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, Chopin's preludes move up the circle of fifths (rather t...
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What inspired Chopin for his preludes?
J.S. Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier
[ "Frédéric_Chopin\n\nThe preludes, many of which are very brief (some consisting of simple statements and developments of a single theme or figure), were described by Schumann as \"the beginnings of studies\". Inspired by J.S. Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, Chopin's preludes move up the circle of fifths (rather t...
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Kenneth Hamilton suggests that the preludes may not have been meant as a group but rather as what?
generic preludes to others of his pieces
[ "Frédéric_Chopin\n\nThe preludes, many of which are very brief (some consisting of simple statements and developments of a single theme or figure), were described by Schumann as \"the beginnings of studies\". Inspired by J.S. Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, Chopin's preludes move up the circle of fifths (rather t...
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Who did a recording where Étude Op. 10 No. 5. follows relude Op. 28 No. 7?
Ferruccio Busoni
[ "Frédéric_Chopin\n\nThe preludes, many of which are very brief (some consisting of simple statements and developments of a single theme or figure), were described by Schumann as \"the beginnings of studies\". Inspired by J.S. Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, Chopin's preludes move up the circle of fifths (rather t...
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How many movements are No. 2, Op. 35 and No. 3, Op 58 in?
four
[ "Frédéric_Chopin\n\nThe two mature piano sonatas (No. 2, Op. 35, written in 1839 and No. 3, Op. 58, written in 1844) are in four movements. In Op. 35, Chopin was able to combine within a formal large musical structure many elements of his virtuosic piano technique—\"a kind of dialogue between the public pianism of ...
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What two people claimed that Op 58 was "worthy of Brahms"?
Kornel Michałowski and Jim Samson
[ "Frédéric_Chopin\n\nThe two mature piano sonatas (No. 2, Op. 35, written in 1839 and No. 3, Op. 58, written in 1844) are in four movements. In Op. 35, Chopin was able to combine within a formal large musical structure many elements of his virtuosic piano technique—\"a kind of dialogue between the public pianism of ...
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How many movements are in No. 2, Op. 35 and No. 3, Op 58?
four
[ "Frédéric_Chopin\n\nThe two mature piano sonatas (No. 2, Op. 35, written in 1839 and No. 3, Op. 58, written in 1844) are in four movements. In Op. 35, Chopin was able to combine within a formal large musical structure many elements of his virtuosic piano technique—\"a kind of dialogue between the public pianism of ...
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Which movement was found lacking in musicality by Schumann?
The last movement
[ "Frédéric_Chopin\n\nThe two mature piano sonatas (No. 2, Op. 35, written in 1839 and No. 3, Op. 58, written in 1844) are in four movements. In Op. 35, Chopin was able to combine within a formal large musical structure many elements of his virtuosic piano technique—\"a kind of dialogue between the public pianism of ...
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According to music historians, which sonata is similar to German tradition and worthy of Brahms?
Op. 58
[ "Frédéric_Chopin\n\nThe two mature piano sonatas (No. 2, Op. 35, written in 1839 and No. 3, Op. 58, written in 1844) are in four movements. In Op. 35, Chopin was able to combine within a formal large musical structure many elements of his virtuosic piano technique—\"a kind of dialogue between the public pianism of ...
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Chopin's chord progressions are similar in style to what other composer?
Claude Debussy
[ "Frédéric_Chopin\n\nChopin's harmonic innovations may have arisen partly from his keyboard improvisation technique. Temperley says that in his works \"novel harmonic effects frequently result from the combination of ordinary appoggiaturas or passing notes with melodic figures of accompaniment\", and cadences are de...
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What likely arose due to Chopin's technique with keyboards?
harmonic innovations
[ "Frédéric_Chopin\n\nChopin's harmonic innovations may have arisen partly from his keyboard improvisation technique. Temperley says that in his works \"novel harmonic effects frequently result from the combination of ordinary appoggiaturas or passing notes with melodic figures of accompaniment\", and cadences are de...
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Who wrote about Chopin's "novel harmonic effects"?
Temperley
[ "Frédéric_Chopin\n\nChopin's harmonic innovations may have arisen partly from his keyboard improvisation technique. Temperley says that in his works \"novel harmonic effects frequently result from the combination of ordinary appoggiaturas or passing notes with melodic figures of accompaniment\", and cadences are de...
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What was Chopin's style based upon?
independent finger technique
[ "Frédéric_Chopin\n\nIn 1841, Léon Escudier wrote of a recital given by Chopin that year, \"One may say that Chopin is the creator of a school of piano and a school of composition. In truth, nothing equals the lightness, the sweetness with which the composer preludes on the piano; moreover nothing may be compared to...
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Who wrote about a Chopin 1841 recital?
Léon Escudier
[ "Frédéric_Chopin\n\nIn 1841, Léon Escudier wrote of a recital given by Chopin that year, \"One may say that Chopin is the creator of a school of piano and a school of composition. In truth, nothing equals the lightness, the sweetness with which the composer preludes on the piano; moreover nothing may be compared to...
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What writing of Chopin talks about everything about piano playing has to do with proper fingering?
his Projet de méthode
[ "Frédéric_Chopin\n\nIn 1841, Léon Escudier wrote of a recital given by Chopin that year, \"One may say that Chopin is the creator of a school of piano and a school of composition. In truth, nothing equals the lightness, the sweetness with which the composer preludes on the piano; moreover nothing may be compared to...