Why was Chopin called " The Poet Of Piano" ?

Answer 1

"(...) frequent usage of 'ritardando' e 'accelerando' expressly prescribed; caleidoscopic alternance of [various technical] means employed in a fully arbitrary way characterize Romanticism's ultimate aim [including Chopin and Debussy], which buries the sofisticated rhythmical Classical sensitivity, under a bombing of seduction-laden stimulus, not avoiding the impression of something mechanical, disturbing and stale".

If the poet is Homer or Goethe or Shakespeare , Chopin has nothing to do. We popularly define a poet as someone who describes elegantly flowers, birds, love-pains and night atmospheres. That was Chopin in his piano solo production. That is very touching and appealing to everyone's sentimental side.
But, as you saw above, not all agree.

Answer 2

Poet Of The Piano

Answer 3

Chopin is the poet of piano because of his distinct melody lines that captures human voicing,
"Infact the human voice became Chopin's primary inspiration resulting in beautiful melodies of his first works..."
One other reason is his delicate touch on the piano and this differs the touch from other composers like Liszt,
" The extreme quietness and delicacy on his piano playing caused some suprised to a public more accustomed to globe-trotting virtuosi each determined to play louder and faster than the last week's visitor..." this was when Chopin performed his Laci darem variation in Vienna (age 16-17) July 1829
IN MY OPINION: Chopin's music overall just touches your heart (coming from a seventeen year old swag101 #yolo) hearing the first note played on the piano and you already know it's a Chopin piece. I can still hear one of his melodies in my head as i am typing this (chopin piano concerto op.21 no.2 in F minor 1st movement)

Answer 4

Chopin was called the poet of piano because he was most famous for his Nocturnes, which people at his time said he made the piano sing with these. A good example of the "singing" is in his Nocturne in C Sharp Minor, Posthumous. He greatly revolutionized the way a piano can sound in terms of beauty and ethereal quality.

Answer 5

The origins of the expression being applied to Chopin in the popular imagination may probably be a little more prosaic and calculating than often imagined. Chopin's English sales had often fluctuated in fortune which -- besides having led his English publisher to attach completely spurious titles, such as 'Les Soupirs', to Chopin's work to encourage sales by being more 'colourful', much to his fury -- had given the Wessel Co. the idea of commissioning an essay to stimulate sales, a case of old fashioned publishers' puffery. The outcome in one respect at least was inspired, in that the essay was inscribed with this Shelley quotation:

"He was a mighty poet -- and
A subtle-souled Psychologist."

This, in its turn, caught Liszt's eye who, in his appreciation of and memorial for his late friend and colleague in book form 'Fredéric Chopin' of 1852, not only pointed up the quotation, but quoted at some length from the essay (to which he otherwise rather less elevatedly refers as a 'pamphlet'), giving it even greater currency than it might ever have had in its original form, serving the local purpose for which it had been originally designed. Moreover, it fitted in with Liszt's own thesis as regards the strengths of Chopin's work which was a miraculous marriage between meticulous craftsmanship and 'architecture' and a poetic distillation of the essence of 'Polishness', the latter sharply pointed up by Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein, Liszt's Polish-born partner, who had a particularly heavy hand in the second edtion revisions of Liszt's book in due course. And thus it appealed -- and it stuck...

(Schumann, being Schumann, was more inclined to grapple with the poetic than most, and in his journalism concerning Chopin that certainly shows. However, in the published journalism reviewing Chopin's performances, 1827-1848, in 5 countries and some 50 newspapers and periodicals, the term 'poet' or even 'poetry' doesn't get a mention. It seems to gain real popular currency after Chopin's passing.)

Answer 6

chopin called poet piano

Answer 7

Chopin's music, to many, has a bitterseet, introspective quality, and evokes a broad range of emotions, but always under control --classic restraint with romantic undercurrents.

From the standoint of form, Chopin was very much a classicist -- symmetry, "rhyming" phrases (the double period phrase structure that harkens back to Mozart), logical and organic progression from one idea to the next, and a very refined sense of proportion and pacing -- all the hallmarks of great poetry.

Answer 8

Maybe because he dated George Sand the poet for many years. She was a poet with her writing, but he was a poet on the piano.
His music is of the Romantic time period and is full of emotion, which sounds like poetry to the ears.

Answer 9

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