Chopin - Nocturne Op. 15 No. 1
Performed by Daniel Barenboim
“Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.”
Frédéric Chopin
Chopin - Ballade No. 4, Op. 53
Piano - Alexei Sultanov
Chopin’s grave in France
“Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.”
Frédéric Chopin
“The Official Bulletin declared that the Poles should be as proud of me as the Germans are of Mozart; obvious nonsense.”
Frédéric Chopin
Rest place of Chopin’s heart in Warsaw, Poland
Chopin - Nocturne No. 21 Op. posth
Performed by Claudio Arrau
“Chopin’s rubato possessed an unshakeable emotional logic. It always justified itself by a strengthening or weakening melodic line, by exaggeration or affectation.”
Karol Mikuli, Chopin’s pupil
Chopin - Impromptu Op. 29 No. 1 in A-flat major
Chopin Deathbed photos?
Chopin - Prelude Op. 28 No. 16
Played by Martha Argerich
Chopin - Fantaisie-Impromptu in C-sharp minor, Op. posth. 66
Played by Vladimir Horowitz
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