Natural Fingering: A Topographical Approach to PianismThough incomplete at the time of his death in 1849, Chopin's Projet de mthode was nonetheless revolutionary in many respects. But with his Fundamental Pattern, Chopin announced the recognition, if not discovery, of the keyboard's extraordinary topographical symmetry and postulated a core formulation for a new pianistic pedagogy. More than a hundred years later the now legendary Heinrich Neuhaus would passionately plead for this pedagogy and a pianism