Kurpinski was by nature endowed with fine musical qualities, uniting sensibility and energy with easy productivity.

Chopin did homage to his distinguished countryman in introducing into his Grande Fantaisie sur des airs polonais, Op.

13, a theme of Kurpinski's.

Two younger men, both born in 1800, must yet be mentioned to compete the picture.

One of them, Moritz Ernemann, a pupil of Mendelssohn's pianoforte-master, L.Berger, played with success in Poland and Germany, and has been described by contemporaries as a finished and expressive, but not brilliant, pianist.
His pleasing compositions are of an instructive and mildly-entertaining character.