Contrast Chopin's style of piano playing with the German style of playing. Use details and information from th

Question

Contrast Chopin's style of piano playing with the German style of playing. Use details and information from the passage to support your response

Answer 1

Chopin's style is complex and very floral. Beethoven's style is more "square" but no less beautiful. It is more measured but no less creative. Mozart is German, but closer to Chopin than Beethoven in style. The best way I can describe it is, in Chopin's music, especially some of the more virtuosic pieces, you can hit a wrong note and it might be missed by all except the ones extremely familiar with the passage. With Mozart, you hit a wrong note and it sticks out like a sore thumb. That's because his piano music is so precise and logical that you know intuitively what the next note should be. With Beethoven, maybe less so, but it is still very defined in its parameters. Chopin's piano pieces have a lot of curlicues and incidentals, busy yet ordered.

Answer 2

what is the passage, btw chopin was a master... i have heard that to hear him play u had to literally have ur ear near the piano to hear the piano... what a musician and composer.... just like horowitz

Answer 3

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He believed in playing in a style that is "SIMPLE" and "REFINED" (as opposed to harsh loud "POUNDING" to which he objected among German pianists). While also being precise, he was known for his DELICATE EXPRESSIVE style. He considered the EXPRESSIVE INTERPRETATION to be inseparable from TECHNIQUE, so that he mastered both, being REFINED, POLISHED, RESERVED as opposed to German style of "expression" by playing "loudly." Chopin was expressive by playing delicately.