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"I have called my piano pieces after the names of my favorite haunts . . . they will form a delightful souvenir, a kind of second diary." —FANNY MENDELSSOHN HENSEL

Key Points

  • In the Romantic era, the piano was both a popular instrument for home use and for virtuosos such as Liszt, Chopin, and the American pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk.
  • Technical improvements to the nineteenth-century piano led to the development of the modern concert grand piano.
  • The short lyric piano piece, often with a fanciful title, was a favorite Romantic genre.

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