So this is interesting. I think more than Beethoven and Chopin, the fortepiano and orchestra and the styles of composition would be bizarre. read more
So this is interesting. I think more than Beethoven and Chopin, the fortepiano and orchestra and the styles of composition would be bizarre. Writing music for upwards of 10–20 parts leads to a lot of parallelism and what used to be considered poor voiceleading. All of Beethovens symphonies use parallelism, they also use a ton of counterpoint. read more
Beethoven was an admirer of Bach. He often played the preludes and fugues of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. Beethoven called Bach the "Urvater der Harmonie" ("Original father of harmony") and, in a pun on the literal meaning of Bach's name, "nicht Bach, sondern Meer" ("not a brook, but a sea"). read more
Chopin didn't even leave his native Warsaw until 1830 and, to my knowledge, Beethoven never travelled to Poland. Therefore, Beethoven never met Chopin and was probably not even aware of the young Pole's existence as he hadn't started his composing/performing career at the time of Beethoven's death. read more