The Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition is one of the oldest and most prestigious ... During the first three stages the pianists perform Nocturnes, Etudes, Ballads, Scherzos, Polonaises, ...

True, Chopin did focus on piano compositions, yet he was the first one who could ... The variety of moods and emotional states is discernible even in the nocturnes, a genre that would seem to be ...

Few composers command such universal love as Chopin; even fewer still have such a high proportion of their entire output remaining in the active repertoire. He’s the only great composer whose every ...