Bunnyears
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If the op only wanted Chopin suggestions, he should not have asked if Chopin was the defining composer of the romantic period -- which he isn't by a long shot. And that has nothing to do with disrespect; he composed principally for piano and his output was not that large. In order to define a movement despite the originality of his work, one needs to dominate the music of his time and Chopin did not do that the way Schumann, Mendelssohn, Wagner or Brahms did.
Originally Posted by jsaliga /img/forum/go_quote.gif There's no need to satisfy me....I didn't start the thread. It just struck me how so few Chopin suggestions there were before the thread ran off into a discussion about other composers. So perhaps the OP had a point when he said that Chopin isn't very respected here...or at least favored. Seeing that this forum was able to produce a thread of some pages in length about Beethoven piano sonatas, I find it a little disappointing that we couldn't muster more than an handful of posts about Chopin. --Jerome |
If the op only wanted Chopin suggestions, he should not have asked if Chopin was the defining composer of the romantic period -- which he isn't by a long shot. And that has nothing to do with disrespect; he composed principally for piano and his output was not that large. In order to define a movement despite the originality of his work, one needs to dominate the music of his time and Chopin did not do that the way Schumann, Mendelssohn, Wagner or Brahms did.