Frederic Chopin is known to be one of the greatest composers of piano music of all time. He spent most of his life in Paris and was good friends with famous artists such as Ingres and Delacroix. His music is considered to be romantic in content, but very different from the romanticism of the time. In fact is said that he very much disliked the music under this classification, and he thought most of it …showed first 75 words of 826 total…

…showed last 75 words of 826 total…pianists. (Schonberg 171-172) This passage gives a nice summation of the importance of ChopinÕs contributions to the music world. He was a man who knew his value, and did his best to educate the future musicians of the world. It is difficult to choose one of ChopinÕs works as being his defining contribution because so many of them as great. All in all he is one of the greatest pianist to ever live.