10, he introduced new highly concentrated contrapuntal elements in the Nocturnes, the brilliant effects evolved into a mature ornamental melodic style and, most importantly, he was able to imbue his works with an over-arching harmonic structure, effortlessly alternating lyrical and virtuosic passages. Going beyond the classical music of the late eighteenth century, Chopin's later music revitalised and transcended the brilliant style in several ways: in the first set of Études Op.

Ĭhopin's early musical style originated in the 'brilliant' virtuosic pianism of Daniel Steibelt, Carl Maria von Weber and Johann Nepomuk Hummel. As a result, the emphasis on his music became focussed on composition instead of performance. This musical transformation was preceded by Chopin's new attitude to life: after adulation in Warsaw, he felt disillusioned by lukewarm audiences in Vienna then his prospects as a pianist-composer seemed less inviting and lastly nostalgia and the recent 1830 Polish uprising drew him back spiritually to Poland. There were ten of these extended works-the four ballades, the four scherzos and the two fantaisies ( Op. Starting in the early 1830s, after his departure from Poland, Chopin's musical style changed significantly, entering a mature period with compositions of exceptional single-piece movements on a monumental scale, stamped with his unmistakable signature. Chopin's Pleyel upright piano in the Valldemossa Charterhouse, Mallorca, where George Sand and he worked during winter 1838–1839

Chopin scherzo 2 b flat minor