evolution

[Horace Greeley]

Stephen,

At 08:36 AM 3/24/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Would Chopin have spent his entire compositional life writing for
>an instrument he felt was inadequate, in the hope that one day people
>would play his music on something better?

Not the issue.  At all.

>  Look at what these people
>really said, how they behaved, and forget the folklore. 
>

I have.  Perhaps we've read different translations.

I do not consider research from primary sources to be reliance
on folklore.

HG