![]() ![]() Also, his use of the sustaining pedal greatly amplified the distinctive sonority he sought, just as the judiciously placed slowing down or acceleration of tempo (rubato) he employed contributed enormously to a poetic ambiance. In the realm of keyboard innovation, his piano style fully exploited the singing quality of the instrument and embodied a whole new world of sonorities resulting from such factors as the unique wide-spread figures that accompanied his endlessly beautiful, long-breathed melodies and, importantly, the fanciful, exquisite filigrees that are not just ornamental but become organic elements. We know that Chopin’s inspirations profoundly affected not only the course of pianism, but also the course of music itself. Chopin, indications of a change of form that may in the future exercise considerable influence on this branch of art.” Beethoven has composed music for the piano, but here I am speaking of music for pianists, and in this realm I find, in the inspirations of M. Chopin is gifted with the power of a Beethoven,” Fétis assures, “or that one finds in his music the vitality of conception that is so remarkable in that great man. Reporting on the performance, the keenly perceptive and influential critic (yes, some critics are influential) François-Joseph Fétis wrote, “Here is a young man who, giving way to his natural leanings and taking no model, has found, if not a way of reviving piano music completely, at least some of what has so long been vainly sought, namely, an abundance of original ideas of which the type is nowhere to be found. It was, in fact, the composer’s three-movement F-minor Piano Concerto, which he played in his Paris debut in 1832, that proved to be a major breakthrough in his fledgling career – he was 22 at the time. But although supreme as a miniaturist, Chopin also scaled the heights in larger forms. Chopin is regarded primarily as a peerless miniaturist, unchallenged for the glories of his creations in small forms – preludes, etudes, mazurkas, nocturnes, etc. ![]()
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