The Polish romantic composer spent the majority of his life far from his homeland. That is partly what made his music so incomparably nostalgic, and painful. His art represents the unity of creation and performance. Listening to his music his contemporaries experienced a mutually inspiring role of these two. Chopin was the salons’ idolized virtuoso, and at the same time a renewer of piano composition technique who managed to create original art in an era dominated by Liszt.
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