Question: Who said Chopin's works were modeled after Bach, Beethoven, Schubert and Field?

Is Richard Taruskin impugns Schumann's attitude toward Chopin's works as patronizing and comments that Chopin "felt his Polish patriotism deeply and sincerely" but consciously modelled his works on the tradition of Bach, Beethoven, Schubert and Field. a good answer to this question?

Select from the following.
(A). yes;
(B). no;
(A).