Question: What is another title Op. 10, No. 12 has garnered? 
Answer: the Revolutionary Étude

Question: What is the only piece Chopin gave an actual title to?
Answer: Funeral March

Question: The Funeral March was written as part of what piece?
Answer: Sonata No. 2

Question: How many instrumental works did Chopin give a descriptive name to?
Answer: one

Question: What descriptive name was Op. 10, No. 12 given?
Answer: Revolutionary Étude

Question: What descriptive name was Op. 64, No. 1 given?
Answer: Minute Waltz

Question: What was the last number Chopin gave to an opus?
Answer: 65

Question: Who was Chopin's musical executor?
Answer: Julian Fontana

Question: How many unfinished pieces did Julian Fontana make into eight more opus numbers?
Answer: 23

Question: Op. 74 is made up of how many Polish songs?
Answer: 17

Question: What is the last opus number that Chopin used?
Answer: 65

Question: Who grouped 23 unpublished pieces and published them as Opp. 66-73 in 1855?
Answer: Julian Fontana

Question: When was Op. 74 published?
Answer: 1857

Question: The Kobylańska Catalogue was named for who?
Answer: Krystyna Kobylańska

Question: Pieces published after what year stopped receiving opus numbers?
Answer: 1857

Question: What have pieces published after 1857 been given rather than opus numbers?
Answer: alternative catalogue designations

Question: What is the current musicologist reference for Chopin's pieces?
Answer: the Kobylańska Catalogue

Question: What is the shortened reference for the Kobylańska Catalogue?
Answer: KK

Question: Who compiled the Kobylańska Catalogue?
Answer: Krystyna Kobylańska.

Question: Who released the first collection of Chopin's works?
Answer: Breitkopf & Härtel

Question: Who edited the Polish "National Edition" of Chopin's works?
Answer: Jan Ekier

Question: Maurice Schlesinger and Camille Pleyel were what to Chopin?
Answer: original publishers

Question: Where did Chopin's work start t oshow up?
Answer: popular 19th-century piano anthologies.

Question: What was the name under scholarly publications of Chopin's work form 1937 to 1966?
Answer: Paderewski

Question: Who edited the Polish National Edition?
Answer: Jan Ekier

Question: What is central to Chopin's process?
Answer: Improvisation

Question: Rosen suggests that a central part of Chopin's uniqueness is how he handles what?
Answer: the four-bar phrase

Question: What is central to Chopin's creativeness?
Answer: Improvisation

Question: Who wrote that "improvisation is designed for an audience"?
Answer: Nicholas Temperley

Question: What did Rosen suggest was important about chopin's personality?
Answer: his flexible handling of the four-bar phrase as a structural unit.

Question: What piece does J. Barrie Jones pinpoint as a great example of Chopin's palette?
Answer: the Barcarolle Op. 60

Question: What does J. Barrie Jones feel stands supreme of Chopin's concert pieces?
Answer: the four ballades and four scherzos

Question: What form does Temperley feel that Chopin's ballades and scherzos are based on?
Answer: departure and return

Question: Chopin's mazurkas contain more of what than his other compositions? 
Answer: folk features

Question: What form are Chopin's mazurkas and waltzes in?
Answer: straightforward ternary or episodic form, sometimes with a coda.

Question: Which of Chopin's works shows more folk aspects?
Answer: mazurkas

Question: What type of bass do Chopin's mazurkas exhibit?
Answer: drone bass

Question: What does Chopin's Op. 63 No. 3 have that is rare?
Answer: a canon at one beat's distance

Question: What time are Chopin's polonaises written in?
Answer: triple time

Question: Chopin's ability to create an advanced polonasises surpassed even two of his teachers, Zywny and who?
Answer: Elsner

Question: Chopin's polonaise often have what kind of rhythm in their melodies?
Answer: martial

Question: Chopin's polonaises needed what kind of playing technique?
Answer: formidable

Question: How many nocturnes did Chopin compose?
Answer: 21

Question: What is it about the middle of Chopin's nocturnes that increases their drama?
Answer: agitated expression

Question: Chopin's nocturnes were more structured than who?
Answer: Field

Question: What year did Chopin meet Field?
Answer: 1833

Question: Which type of Chopin's compositons were difficult for perfomers due to their middle sections?
Answer: nocturnes

Question: What pieces of his did Chopin use to teach his technique?
Answer: études

Question: What form are most of Chopin's études in?
Answer: straightforward ternary

Question: Chopin often taught his piano technique using what form of music he wrote?
Answer: études

Question: What piece of Bach's did Chopin take inspiration for his preludes?
Answer: The Well-Tempered Clavier

Question: Who suggested that Chopin's preludes were not intended to be played as a group?
Answer: Kenneth Hamilton

Question: What was described as "the beginning of studies" by Schumann?
Answer: The preludes

Question: What inspired Chopin for his preludes?
Answer: J.S. Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier

Question: Kenneth Hamilton suggests that the preludes may not have been meant as a group but rather as what?
Answer: generic preludes to others of his pieces

Question: Who did a recording where Étude Op. 10 No. 5. follows relude Op. 28 No. 7?
Answer: Ferruccio Busoni

Question: How many movements are No. 2, Op. 35 and No. 3, Op 58 in?
Answer: four

Question: What two people claimed that Op 58 was "worthy of Brahms"?
Answer: Kornel Michałowski and Jim Samson

Question: How many movements are in No. 2, Op. 35 and No. 3, Op 58?
Answer: four

Question: Which movement was found lacking in musicality by Schumann?
Answer: The last movement

Question: According to music historians, which sonata is similar to German tradition and worthy of Brahms?
Answer: Op. 58

Question: Chopin's chord progressions are similar in style to what other composer?
Answer: Claude Debussy

Question: What likely arose due to Chopin's technique with keyboards?
Answer: harmonic innovations

Question: Who wrote about Chopin's "novel harmonic effects"?
Answer: Temperley

Question: What was Chopin's style based upon?
Answer: independent finger technique

Question: Who wrote about a Chopin 1841 recital?
Answer: Léon Escudier

Question: What writing of Chopin talks about everything about piano playing has to do with proper fingering?
Answer: his Projet de méthode

Question: According to J. Barrie Jones who was the only true successor to Chopin?
Answer: Karol Szymanowski

Question: Many people were considered influenced by Chopin's what?
Answer: national modes and idioms

Question: Who was Alexander Scriabin's teacher?
Answer: Nikolai Zverev

Question: Who was Chopin's worthy successor according to Jones?
Answer: Karol Szymanowski

Question: Who was devoted to the music of Chopin?
Answer: Alexander Scriabin

Question: Who wrote that the current large concert style conflicts with Chopin's preference of intimate performances?
Answer: Jonathan Bellman

Question: What did Chopin tend to avoid?
Answer: rigid procedures

Question: What has been falsely credited to Chopin?
Answer: "always crescendo to a high note"

Question: What did Chopin tell a student is given up in concerts?
Answer: hearing in them all the most beautiful things of art

Question: Who wrote about Chopin's "chromatic embroidery"?
Answer: Berlioz

Question: Who wrote that Chopin's music, when played by him, became a "colorful wreath of flowers"?
Answer: Hiller

Question: Chopin's compositions are often played with what?
Answer: rubato

Question: What does rubato mean?
Answer: the practice in performance of disregarding strict time

Question: In Chopin's music where strict timing is disregarded, what is it called?
Answer: rubato

Question: What type of Chopin's music had the most disregard for strict timing according to Charles Rosen?
Answer: mazurkas