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The goal of playing his piano études, for instance, is not mastery of the many technical problems that pervade their surface. What generations of pianists have discovered playing Chopin's music is that the piano is an instrument capable of producing an infinite variety of sound for Chopin this was clearly intuitive. A moment of Chopin is as immediately recognizable as a Van Gogh canvas, and every bit as colorful. His highly refined style - generously lyrical, boldly chromatic, miraculously pianistic - transcends each of its components and becomes a language unto itself. While Liszt better typifies the virtuoso of the period, and Schumann and Berlioz more audaciously epitomize the Romantic spirit, Chopin emerges as the most consistently excellent craftsman. Of the many celebrated composers born around 1810 (even a short list of first-rate composers would include Chopin, Liszt, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Wagner, and Verdi), it is Frédéric Chopin (1810-49) whose music has proven the most widely enduring. In the grand manner, shorn of that manner's abuses." ".highly imaginative, elegantly phrased, finely shaded and artfully colored. ".tremendous technique and bravura style." awareness of the gigantic spiritual as well as physical force of the music." Recorded Januat Janet Wallace Concert Hall Donald Betts - Chopin Music Don Betts: Chopin