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Chopin's harmony ... was conspicuously innovatory. Through melodic clashes, ambiguous chords, delayed or surprising cadences, remote or sliding modulations (sometimes many in quick succession), unresolved dominant 7ths and occasionally excursions into pure chromaticism or modality, he pushed the accepted procedures of dissonance and key info previously unexplored territory. This profound influence can be traced alike in the music of Liszt, Wagner, Fauré, Debussy, Grieg, Albéniz, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and many others.
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By the late 1830s, Chopin was so popular that he was able to demand extremely high fees for his works from publishers. Eventually, Schlesinger and Breitkopf began to balk at his escalating prices, and Chopin responded by negotiating with other publishers who were eager to break the hegemony established by Schlesinger, Breitkopf, and Wessel. It did not take his regular publishers long to recognize that in the long run it would be profitable to have as many Chopin works in their catalogues as possible, regardless of their initial cost. Most of Chopin's music continued to appear through these publishers, but Chopin did not hesitate to take his business elsewhere whenever he encountered resistance or inconvenience at their hands.
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If you think that you've never heard Chopin, you're probably wrong. The famous funeral march music, so somber and lugubrious, so often borrowed in Road Runner and Bugs Bunny cartoons, is by him; it was originally part of a piano sonata. And then recall that Barry Manilow hit "Could It Be Magic"; take away Barry's voice, and the piano part that remains is unmistakably Chopin's Prelude opus 28, no. 20 in C minor.
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Chopin had strong opinions of how his music should be performed and many common performances practices of Chopin today are at odds with his aesthetic. Arguably, some of the best records of Chopin include those by Koczalski, Friedman, Cortot, Rubinstein, Malcuzynski, Janis, Magaloff, Pollini and Zimerman.
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