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Updated: October 2, 2026
Once in print, this silly opinion was repeated parrot-like by scores of other critics. How silly it is may be inferred from the fact that such third-rate composerlings as Herz and Hummel were able to write sonatas of the most approved pattern and that, in fact, any person with the least musical talent can learn in a few years to write sonatas that are absolutely correct as regards form.
And this, be it remembered, was only six years before Chopin's death. Not a few of the composers and composerlings of the period joined the professional critics in their depreciation of Chopin's works. Field called his "a talent of the sick chamber."