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I wonder what Chopin himself would have done were it possible to film or record him in his day. Would he have followed the path of, say, Glenn Gould, the brilliant Canadian pianist who gave up touring and performance in favor of recording exclusively?

 

Chopin would not have played for an audience of four to six, but he did prefer the more intimate setting of a noble or bourgeois party to playing before two thousand people in a concert hall. Fortunately he could earn a good living between that, publishing (sheet music was a huge business in those days, as Europe was full to the brim with amateur musicians eager to get their hands on new material), and the occasional concert.

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