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Clésinger | Who sculpted Chopin's tombstone? |
Euterpe | What is the name of the muse carved on Chopin's tombstone? |
5,000 francs | How much did Chopin's funeral cost? |
Jane Stirling | Who paid for Chopin's funeral? |
alcohol | Chopin's sister Ludwika took his heart back to Warsaw preserved in what? |
Clésinger. | Who designed Chopin's tombstone? |
5,000 francs | How much did Chopin's funeral and monument cost? |
Jane Stirling | Who paid for Chopin's funeral? |
sister | Who took Chopin's heart to Poland? |
Sand | Who ended up with the 200 letters from Sand to Chopin? |
Over 230 | How many of Chopin's works still exist? |
piano | All of his pieces include what instrument? |
Over 230 | How many Chopin pieces are known to have survived? |
chamber music. | Only a few of Chopin's pieces involve more than the piano, including piano concertos, songs and what? |
Clementi | Whose piano method did Chopin teach his students? |
Clementi | Whose piano method did Chopin use with his students? |
Bach and Mozart | Who did Chopin say were the two most important composers in his own music influences? |
Haydn | Chopin looked to Beethoven, Mozart, Clementi and who for his own music education? |
John Field | Who is credited with creating the nocturne? |
ballades and scherzi | Chopin was the first person to create what as singular concert pieces? |
nocturne | What new genre di John Field invent? |
ballades and scherzi | Chopin was first in writing what for concerts? |
concert étude | What musical concept did Chopin exploit? |
Liszt, Clementi and Moscheles | What three other musicians were developing the new genre? |
seven | How many polonaises were published while Chopin lived? |
nine | How many polonaises were published after Chopin died? |
mazurkas | Chopin was credited for making what more internationally known? |
faster tempos | What is different about Chopin's waltzes versus a ballroom waltz? |
greater range of melody and expression. | What did Chopin add to the modern dance of his era? |
concert hall | Chopin's Polish dance music was developed for what type of hall? |
the mazurka | What was Chopin responsible for making popular with Euorpeans? |
nine | How many Chopin polonaises were published after his death? |
waltzes | What dance music of Chopin was written more for recitals than ballrooms? |
the Revolutionary Étude | What is another title Op. 10, No. 12 has garnered? |
Funeral March | What is the only piece Chopin gave an actual title to? |
Sonata No. 2 | The Funeral March was written as part of what piece? |
one | How many instrumental works did Chopin give a descriptive name to? |
Revolutionary Étude | What descriptive name was Op. 10, No. 12 given? |
Minute Waltz | What descriptive name was Op. 64, No. 1 given? |
65 | What was the last number Chopin gave to an opus? |
Julian Fontana | Who was Chopin's musical executor? |
23 | How many unfinished pieces did Julian Fontana make into eight more opus numbers? |
17 | Op. 74 is made up of how many Polish songs? |
65 | What is the last opus number that Chopin used? |
Julian Fontana | Who grouped 23 unpublished pieces and published them as Opp. 66-73 in 1855? |
1857 | When was Op. 74 published? |
Krystyna Kobylańska | The Kobylańska Catalogue was named for who? |
1857 | Pieces published after what year stopped receiving opus numbers? |
alternative catalogue designations | What have pieces published after 1857 been given rather than opus numbers? |
the Kobylańska Catalogue | What is the current musicologist reference for Chopin's pieces? |
KK | What is the shortened reference for the Kobylańska Catalogue? |
Krystyna Kobylańska. | Who compiled the Kobylańska Catalogue? |
Breitkopf & Härtel | Who released the first collection of Chopin's works? |
Jan Ekier | Who edited the Polish "National Edition" of Chopin's works? |
original publishers | Maurice Schlesinger and Camille Pleyel were what to Chopin? |
popular 19th-century piano anthologies. | Where did Chopin's work start t oshow up? |
Paderewski | What was the name under scholarly publications of Chopin's work form 1937 to 1966? |
Jan Ekier | Who edited the Polish National Edition? |
Improvisation | What is central to Chopin's process? |
the four-bar phrase | Rosen suggests that a central part of Chopin's uniqueness is how he handles what? |
Improvisation | What is central to Chopin's creativeness? |
Nicholas Temperley | Who wrote that "improvisation is designed for an audience"? |
his flexible handling of the four-bar phrase as a structural unit. | What did Rosen suggest was important about chopin's personality? |
the Barcarolle Op. 60 | What piece does J. Barrie Jones pinpoint as a great example of Chopin's palette? |
the four ballades and four scherzos | What does J. Barrie Jones feel stands supreme of Chopin's concert pieces? |
departure and return | What form does Temperley feel that Chopin's ballades and scherzos are based on? |
folk features | Chopin's mazurkas contain more of what than his other compositions? |
straightforward ternary or episodic form, sometimes with a coda. | What form are Chopin's mazurkas and waltzes in? |
mazurkas | Which of Chopin's works shows more folk aspects? |
drone bass | What type of bass do Chopin's mazurkas exhibit? |
a canon at one beat's distance | What does Chopin's Op. 63 No. 3 have that is rare? |
triple time | What time are Chopin's polonaises written in? |
Elsner | Chopin's ability to create an advanced polonasises surpassed even two of his teachers, Zywny and who? |
martial | Chopin's polonaise often have what kind of rhythm in their melodies? |
formidable | Chopin's polonaises needed what kind of playing technique? |
21 | How many nocturnes did Chopin compose? |
agitated expression | What is it about the middle of Chopin's nocturnes that increases their drama? |
Field | Chopin's nocturnes were more structured than who? |
1833 | What year did Chopin meet Field? |
nocturnes | Which type of Chopin's compositons were difficult for perfomers due to their middle sections? |
études | What pieces of his did Chopin use to teach his technique? |
straightforward ternary | What form are most of Chopin's études in? |
études | Chopin often taught his piano technique using what form of music he wrote? |
The Well-Tempered Clavier | What piece of Bach's did Chopin take inspiration for his preludes? |
Kenneth Hamilton | Who suggested that Chopin's preludes were not intended to be played as a group? |
The preludes | What was described as "the beginning of studies" by Schumann? |
J.S. Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier | What inspired Chopin for his preludes? |
generic preludes to others of his pieces | Kenneth Hamilton suggests that the preludes may not have been meant as a group but rather as what? |
Ferruccio Busoni | Who did a recording where Étude Op. 10 No. 5. follows relude Op. 28 No. 7? |
four | How many movements are No. 2, Op. 35 and No. 3, Op 58 in? |
Kornel Michałowski and Jim Samson | What two people claimed that Op 58 was "worthy of Brahms"? |
four | How many movements are in No. 2, Op. 35 and No. 3, Op 58? |
The last movement | Which movement was found lacking in musicality by Schumann? |
Op. 58 | According to music historians, which sonata is similar to German tradition and worthy of Brahms? |
Claude Debussy | Chopin's chord progressions are similar in style to what other composer? |
harmonic innovations | What likely arose due to Chopin's technique with keyboards? |
Temperley | Who wrote about Chopin's "novel harmonic effects"? |
independent finger technique | What was Chopin's style based upon? |
Léon Escudier | Who wrote about a Chopin 1841 recital? |
his Projet de méthode | What writing of Chopin talks about everything about piano playing has to do with proper fingering? |