He expanded piano technique by developing a new dependence on pedal, therefore influencing his entire writing style. Chopin was one of the first composers who was able to work extensively with this new innovation.
Both French and English manufacturers were continuously working and developing the piano, particularly focusing on the damper pedal by enabling the bass string vibrations to be substantially prolonged. Most of the his predecessors, such as Hummel, Field, and Weber, were not given the opportunity to work with the new piano instrument constructed during that time. The new set of technical demands for piano also required a need for simplicity and effortlessness within the easiest and the most difficult passages to bring about the most beautiful tone quality one could manage, and to play with deep emotional expression at all times.įredric Chopin was the first most important piano innovator at the start of the Romantic Era. The most important innovation brought out by these two composers was the importance (more appropriately worded as necessity) of musicality within virtuosity.
However, the new school of pianists introduced a far more important aspect of technique into the new era other than increased virtuosic difficulties. Both composers stretched and redefined the limits of the piano. The Etudes were declared unplayable in their time.
Liszt’s twelve Grand Etudes feature multiples melodic lines played simultaneously forcing the performer’s hands to leap, run, and jump all over the piano. 25 Etudes introduced new techniques that were never heard of prior to that time. New innovations introduced by two of the greatest piano composers, Fredric Chopin and Franz Liszt, completely revolutionized the piano. Chopin and Liszt’s Contribution to Piano Techniqueĭuring the Romantic Period piano music was expanded into incredibly difficult and seemingly impossible new territories.
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