1. Young girls at the piano Auguste Renoir 1892

2. Chopin playing the piano in Prince Radziwill’s Salon Heinrik Siemiradzki
“I wrote there an alla polacca with cello. Nothing to it but dazzle, for the salon, for the ladies; I wanted, you see, the duke's daughter Wanda to learn. - Young, 17 years old, pretty, and it was truly a pleasure to place her little fingers on the keys. But joking aside, she has a considerable and genuine feel for music, such that one need not chatter: crescendo here, piano there, now quicker, now slower, and soon.” -Chopin, 1829

3. Mazurka Traditional Polish folk dance
In triple meter, usually at a brisk tempo
Irregular accents on 2nd or 3rd beats
Traditional ”mazurek”
Chopin

4. Polonaise Traditional Polish dance in ¾ Characteristic rhythm
Stately processional
Chopin Polonaise Op. 26 No. 1

5. Waltz Dance in ¾ derived with heavy accent on first beat
Related to Ländler
Gliding, sliding, turning dance and another example
Viennese waltz (with lilt)
Schubert, Chopin [and Schumann]

6. Ländler folk dance for couples featuring hopping and stamping in ¾ time popular in Austria, southern Germany, German Switzerland late 18th century strongly identified with Beethoven, Schubert, Bruckner and Mahler music landler from the Sound of Music another landler

7. Schubert ( )

8. Schubertiades

9. Franz Liszt
“soliloques” modeled on performances by violinist Paganini “Le concert c’est moi” Lisztomania (termed by Heinrich Heine)
“Liszt Fantasizing at the piano.” Joseph Danhauser (1840) commisioned by Conrad Graf. Imagines Alexandre Dumas, George Sand, Liszt, Marie d’Agoult. Standing Berlioz or Victor Hugo, Niccolo Paganini, Giacomo Rossini.
Entering from offstage, playing by memory, placement of piano, playing halls of up to 3000 people