Why the Chopins Method has been so rarely used in the professional piano teaching?
– A troublesome question! Factually, in theory of the piano the Chopin’s Method is being known very well. Unfortunately, only HISTORIANS, who for the clear reasons cannot adequately understand and interpret all the practical aspects of teaching and playing the piano, primarily were interested in this Method, and just historians have written majority of books and articles related to this method – not the pianists. That is why not all the generous possibilities of this Method could be adequately described and made well known worldwide. Pedagogically seen – the most important content of the Chopin’s Method, related to real mechanisms, which factually determine the technique of playing the piano, had been almost forgotten. That is why – again – the Chopin’s Method, even nowadays, is being known and studied rather as the historically interesting, still practically about worthless issue. Additionally, the Chopin’s piano idea, drafted in his “Sketches for the Method”, was of so modern charact
