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Originally Posted by OccultHawk
I still consider Debussy superior but I’ve learned a lot about Chopin this past year and my respect has skyrocketed.
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Fryderyk Chopin was one of the great masters of Romantic music, sometimes called "the poet of the piano" whose poetic genius is based on a professional technique that is unmatched in his generation.
De gustibus non est disputandum.., "In matters of taste, there can be no disputes"..
In his writing for the piano Debussy proved himself a successor to Chopin, who had died in Paris thirteen years before Debussy's birth. His own debt to Chopin was overtly expressed in his two books of Etudes (Studies), completed in 1915.
Poet and Painter: Connections Between Chopin and Debussy
“Many of the musical textures that Debussy explores develop out of Chopin’s compositional style,” .
“Chopin was a master of piano composition and helped to develop the full range of its expressive possibilities, something that Debussy continues to explore in his preludes for piano...”
https://middleburycampus.com/43180/a...n-and-debussy/