Someone should write a book one day about painters, artists, musicians etc who were ignored in their lifetime and later revered – it's a subject which fascinates in both directions eg that Schubert was not seen as a genius but the novelist Charles Morgan was, that Vermeer struggled to support his family but two million people (the whole of Paris) attended Victor Hugo's funeral. That's why the DNB instructs its contributors to assess their subject's reputation, and it's quite a tricky thing to do: when assessing EM Forster's one longed to put, of course he's the greatest novelist of the C20th, but since that's a minority opinion it can't go in the DNB (reminder: you can get it free with your local library card). Chopin does not fall into either the neglected or over-praised category, he was acclaimed as a genius from the start. Here is Pollini playing Nocturne no. 8 op. 27 no. 2. The watercolour was painted in 1836 by Maria Wodzinska, it can be seen at the Chopin Museum in Warsaw.