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Everyone seems to consider Chopin the default piano composer. In a Youtube video called 25 Greatest piano pieces of all time, CHOPIN actually managed to end up as #1. And people in the comments were actually agreeing with Ballade 1 being the best piano piece of all time, better than Bach, better than Beethoven, better than Brahms? HOW?
He couldn't write a fugue like Bach, an opera like Mozart or a symphony like Beethoven. Unlike Berlioz, his orchestration was terrible. Unlike Brahms, he had no sense of structure or the need to make his large forms coherent. Unlike Schumann, he couldn't write a concerto with an actual interplay between the soloist and the orcherstra, and not the pianist hogging everything with a bunch of pearly melody lines. Unlike Liszt, he couldn't do a decent development of themes.
He wrote 3 sonatas. None of them were revolutionary enough to compare to Beethoven's. At least in Beethoven's case, every sonata among the 32 has something to offer. And the funeral march idea was a Beethoven rip-off, just like how he stole John Field's idea of the nocturne and claimed it for himself.
He has a few gems like Ballade 4, the Polonaise-Fantaise, some Scherzos and the 2nd prelude, yet those are a select few of his oeuvre, and even those aren't really that close to the top. I appreciate that he wrote etudes in a melodic way, but even those were trapped in the uninteresting ABA form, which he also used excessively in the waltzes and nocturnes. (And let's not start on the left hand accompaniment of these miniatures.)
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