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" In Chopin's music there are many pianists, many
styles and all are correct if they are poetically musical,
logical and individually sincere. Of his rubato I treat in the
chapter devoted to the Mazurkas, making also an attempt to define
the "zal" of his playing and music.
When Chopin was strong he used a Pleyel piano, when he was ill an
Erard--a nice fable of Liszt's! He said that he liked the Erard
but he really preferred the Pleyel with its veiled sonority. What
could not he have accomplished with the modern grand piano?
In the artist's room of the Maison Pleyel there stands the piano
at which Chopin composed the Preludes, the G minor nocturne, the
Funeral March, the three supplementary fitudes, the A minor
Mazurka, the Tarantelle, the F minor Fantasie and the B minor
Scherzo. A brass tablet on the inside lid notes this. The piano
is still in good condition as regards tone and action.
Mikuli asserted that Chopin brought out an "immense" tone in
cantabiles. He had not a small tone, but it was not the
orchestral tone of our day.


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