Chopin can hardly write anything now but that we feel like calling out in the seventh or eighth measure, “It is by him!”
P. Kildea, Chopin’s Piano, London, Allen Lane, 2018, p. 43.
– Robert Schumann, 1838
Schumann on Chopin’s style
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