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Chopin & the Parisian Salon
“But if indeed he wrote for a salon of any sort, it was for a salon frequented exclusively by geniuses.” — Heinrich Schenker The music of Frederick Chopin has been so successfully adopted into our twenty-first century culture of large-scale recitals and international competitions that it is worth revisiting the social setting in which his music…
Edward Campbell-rowntree 