 The improved pianoforte was adopted by Mozart and other composers, who began composing chamber ensembles with the piano playing a leading role.The piano was to become more and more dominant through the 19th century, so much so that many composers, such as Franz Liszt and Frédéric Chopin, wrote almost exclusively for solo piano (or solo piano with orchestra).Ludwig van Beethoven straddled this period of change as a giant of Western music.