December 6, 2009 Left hand cast of Frédéric Chopin – the famous
polish composer & virtuose pianist! In 1888 a small monument was
erected to the memory of the Frédéric Chopin at Wasswan.
Portraits and medallions of Chopin were executed by Ary Scheffer
and Eugène Delacroix, and by the sculptors Bary and Clésinger. A
distinguished English amateur thus records his impressions of
Chopin’s style of pianoforte-playing compared with those of
other masters: “His technical characteristics may be broadly
indicated as negation of bravura, absolute perfection of
fingerplay, and of the legatissimo touch, on which no other
pianist has ever so entirely leant, to the exclusion of that
high relief and point which the modern German school, after the
examples of Liszt and Thalberg, has so effectively developed. It
is in these feature that we must recognize that
Grundverschiedenheit (fundamental difference) which according to
Felix Mendelssohn distinguished Chopin’s playing from that of
these masters, and in no less degree from t