All of Chopin's music, apart from two piano concertos, a collection of songs in Polish, and a couple of chamber pieces, was for solo piano.People asked him why he didn't try his hand at symphonies or operas. But all he said was that he wanted to stick to piano....
Frederic Chopindied at the age of 39 on this date in 1849. Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leading musician of his era, one whose “poetic genius was based on a professional ...