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Karol Szymanowski | According to J. Barrie Jones who was the only true successor to Chopin? |
national modes and idioms | Many people were considered influenced by Chopin's what? |
Nikolai Zverev | Who was Alexander Scriabin's teacher? |
Karol Szymanowski | Who was Chopin's worthy successor according to Jones? |
Alexander Scriabin | Who was devoted to the music of Chopin? |
Nikolai Zverev | Who was Alexander Scriabin's teacher? |
Jonathan Bellman | Who wrote that the current large concert style conflicts with Chopin's preference of intimate performances? |
rigid procedures | What did Chopin tend to avoid? |
"always crescendo to a high note" | What has been falsely credited to Chopin? |
hearing in them all the most beautiful things of art | What did Chopin tell a student is given up in concerts? |
Berlioz | Who wrote about Chopin's "chromatic embroidery"? |
Hiller | Who wrote that Chopin's music, when played by him, became a "colorful wreath of flowers"? |
rubato | Chopin's compositions are often played with what? |
the practice in performance of disregarding strict time | What does rubato mean? |
rubato | In Chopin's music where strict timing is disregarded, what is it called? |
mazurkas | What type of Chopin's music had the most disregard for strict timing according to Charles Rosen? |
Friederike Müller | According to who did Chopin demand strictly sticking with rhythm? |
Friederike Müller | Which student said Chopin made sure his students knew his legato, cantabile style of playing? |
rhythm. | According to Friederike Müller, Chopin insisted his students have the strictest adherence to what? |
sense of nationalism | Chopin was noted as introducing music to what? |
1836 | What year did Schumann review Chopin's piano concertos? |
Poland | In his review Schumann made note of Chopin's emotions for what? |
the failure of the November 1830 | Why did Schumann say the Poles were in mourning? |
Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein | A biography on Chopin released under Franz Liszt's name was likely written by who? |
polonaises | Chopin was able to bring about a new sense of nationalism with his music because of his mazurkas and what? |
Schumann | Who wrote a glowing review of Chopin's love for his country through his music in 1836? |
flowers | Schumann described Chopin's music as cannons buried in what? |
Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein | Though Franz Liszt is credited with Chopin's 1863 biography, who probably actually wrote it? |
Barbara Milewski | Who said that Chopin's familiarity with Polish music was more "urbanised" than true folk music? |
Michał Kleofas Ogiński and Franciszek Lessel | George Golos references what two musicians when claiming Chopin's nationalism was overrated? |
Richard Taruskin | Who said Chopin's works were modeled after Bach, Beethoven, Schubert and Field? |
intuitive | William Atwood suggested that Chopin's music wasn't purposely patriotic but what? |
freedom | A modern commentator, William Atwood, feels Poles not only sought solace in Chopin's music but also found them a source of strength as they continued to fight for what? |
Europe and the New World | Where were Poles scattered to? |
Byronic flamboyance | Arthur Hutchings stated that Chopin's lack of what made him special? |
Liszt and Henri Herz | Who were two of Chopin's contemporaries? |
Paris | What place was considered lucky for Chopin to have arrived at considering how much he charged for piano lessons? |
Arthur Hutchings | Who said Chopin was unlike his romantic contemporaries Liszt and Henri Herz? |
Carnaval | In what suite did Schumann name a work for Chopin? |
Ballade No. 2 in F major | What piece of Chopin's work was dedicated to Schumann? |
six | How many of Chopin's Polish songs did Liszt transliterate for piano? |
Alkan | With who did Chopin feel comfortable speaking of folk music with? |
qualities as a pianist and composer | What was recognized about Chopin from his musical peers? |
Carnaval | What Schumann suite contained the name of a piece Schumann named for Chopin? |
Ballade No. 2 in F major | What piece did Chopin dedicate to Schumann? |
Liszt | What other musician shows to have elements of Chopin in his work? |
Debussy | Who dedicated his 1915 piano Études to Chopin? |
Jacques Durand | For what publisher to Debussy edit Chopin's music for? |
Raoul Koczalski | Who was a student of Chopin's former students and actually recorded some Chopin music? |
Chopin's | What music did Debussy play a lot at the Paris Conservatoire? |
Mainland Chinese scholars | Who were Wang Jiawei and Nyima Gyaincain? |
horse trade | What important trade did the Ming Dynasty have with Tibet? |
1402–1424 | During what years did the Mongol leader Kublai Khan rule? |
Deshin Shekpa | Who did the Yongle Emperor try to build a religious alliance with? |
the Karma Kagyu school | Deshin Shekpa was the head of what school? |
Nepal | The Tibetan leaders had a diplomacy with what neighboring state? |
armed resistance | What did the Tibetans use against Ming forays? |
the Mongols | Who were the armed protectors for the Gelug Dalai Lama? |
the Ganden Phodrang | Which regime did Güshi Khan help establish? |
1578 | When was the Mongol-Tibetan alliance started? |
the 9th century | In what century did the Tibetan Empire fall? |
The Yarlung rulers of Tibet | Who signed multiple peace treaties with the Tang? |
the borders between Tibet and China | What did one of the treaties between the Tang and Tibet help fix? |
Tibet | Who was the Tangs biggest rival? |
821 | What year did Tang and Tibet sign a treaty to fix the borders? |
907–960 | When did the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period of China take place? |
960–1279 | When did the Song dynasty take place? |
Song dynasty | What dynasty was concerned with countering northern enemy states? |
the Khitan | Who ruled the Liao dynasty? |
Jurchen | Who ruled the Jin dynasty? |
Genghis Khan | Which ruler took Western Xia under their control? |
Ögedei Khan | Who was Genghis Khan's successor? |
1229–1241 | What years did Ögedei Khan rule? |
Ögedei Khan | Who invaded Tibet? |
Godan | Who was the Mongol prince? |
Sakya Pandita | Who was the leader of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism? |
Töregene Khatun | Who was the regent of the Mongol Empire? |
1241–1246 | In what years was Töregene Khatun the regent of the Mongol Empire? |
thirteen | How many states were ruled by myriarchies? |
Khagan | What title did prince Kublai rule as from 1260 to 1294? |
Ögedei Khan | Who was the superior of prince Kublai? |
Karma Pakshi | Who became the second Karmapa Lama? |
the Phagpa lama | With whom did Kublai Khan have a unique relationship with? |
1279 | When did Kublai Khan conquer the song dynasty? |
1271–1368 | When did the Yuan dynasty rule? |
the Yuan dynasty | Which dynasty ruled all of china? |
universal rule | What did Khubilai claim for a while? |
China | Where did Khubilai seek support as Emperor? |
1358 | What year was the Sakya viceregal regime eradicated? |
the Mongols in Tibet | Who placed the Sakya viceregal regime position of authority? |
the Phagmodru myriarch Tai Situ Changchub Gyaltsen | Who eradicated the Sakya viceregal regime? |
the Phagmodrupa Dynasty | Which dynasty became ruler of Tibet? |
Zhu Yuanzhang | Who created the Ming Dynasty? |
the Red Turban Rebellion | Who caused the Yuan dynasty to fall? |
Zhu Yuanzhang | Who ruled as the the Hongwu Emperor? |
1368–1398 | What years did Zhu Yuanzhang rule as the Hongwu Emperor? |
Yuan officeholders | Who did the Hongwu Emperor send convoys to? |
Rolpe Dorje | Who was the fourth Karmapa Lama? |
Rolpe Dorje | Who rejected an invitation by the Hongwu Emperor? |
the Buddhist link between Tibet and China | What did the the Hongwu Emperor want to continue to promote? |