"One needs only to study a certain positioning of the hand in relation to the keys to obtain with ease the most beautiful sounds, to know how to play long notes and short notes and to [attain] certain unlimited dexterity... A well formed technique, it seems to me, [is one] that can control and vary a beautiful sound quality."
Key Works
1827
Variations for piano and orchestra on 'La ci darem la mano' (aria from Mozart opera Don Giovanni
Nocturne
in E-flat
1830
Piano Concertos
No.1 and No.2
1832
12 piano studies, Opus 10, including 'Black Key', 'Tristesse', and 'Revolutionary' studies
1834
12 piano studies, Opus 25, including 'Butterfly and 'Winter Wind' studies
1835
'Fantaisie-impromptu'
Piano Ballade
No.1
1838
Ballade
No.2
1839
24 piano preludes, including 'Raindrop' prelude and Prelude in E-Minor
