There's a wonderful diary that was on the rec list today entitled, Komposers for Kossacks: Fryderyk Chopin http://www.dailykos.com/... It inspired me to say a bunch, so here goes...
I honestly believe that Chopin is the GREATEST ever. I'm not a musical historian, so I got some of my responses wrong in my comment to this diary, but what I know is that Debussey couldn't have existed without Chopin before him. Oh, man, the word beauty, beauty, beauty cannot be given ever without giving it to Chopin. He makes me melt. He makes me defiant. He makes me cry. He makes me happy in the way that Joseph Campbell makes me happy. That's why, without the words to say it, my on-line name is FollowYourBliss.
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