And it was Liszt who claimed to have been the one to introduce Chopin to his eventual lover George Sand. After that, their relationship gets complicated. When Chopin first arrived in Paris, he dismissed Liszt as being "zero beside Kalkbrenner," another piano virtuoso. read more
Friends, edging towards “frenemies”. Chopin, who was, to put it bluntly, a prissy snob, envied Liszt’s outgoing, charismatic personality and his physical strength. Chopin was a brilliant pianist himself, very nearly the equal of Liszt, but he simply didn’t have Liszt’s power because he was so frail and sickly. read more
And it was Liszt who claimed to have been the one to introduce Chopin to his eventual lover George Sand. After that, their relationship gets complicated. When Chopin first arrived in Paris, he dismissed Liszt as being "zero beside Kalkbrenner," another piano virtuoso. read more
Wilhelm von Lenz, a student of both Liszt and Chopin, the guy who wrote the biography of Beethoven that divided his life into three style periods, complained that Chopin's playing of Beethoven, while wonderful, was "feminine," whatever that's supposed to mean. read more