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Frédéric François Chopin [n 1] (born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin; [n 2] [n 3] 1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leading musician of his era, one whose "poetic genius was based on a professional ...
Jul 18, 2020 · Chopin was not a greater composer than Bach or Mozart, Beethoven or Schubert, an absurdity in itself. But for me, Chopin is unique. He understood as no other composer did what the piano can do. Chopin gave us the full emotional range of what a piano can express.
The Nocturne No. 20 in C ♯ minor, Op. posth., Lento con gran espressione, P 1, No. 16, KKIVa/16, WN 37, is a solo piano piece composed by Frédéric Chopin in 1830 and published in 1875.
PianistPianoLabelRecording YearTomasz RitterPaul McNulty after Conrad Graf (c. 1819)2020-2021Pierre GoyChristopher Clark after Conrad Graf ...Lyrinx2005Collard & Collard square piano (c. 1836)Diversions1996Susanne von LaunBroadwood & Sons (1841)Musicaphon2007Nocturne in E-flat major, Op. 9, No. 2Played by Vadim Chaimovich (https://www.youtube.com/vadimchaimovich)FB-Vadim: https://www.facebook.com/vadimchaimovich-...
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Frédéric Chopin is famous for his expressive piano playing and the innovative works he composed for that instrument.
What did Frédéric Chopin die from?
Frédéric Chopin died from tuberculosis on October 17, 1849. He had suffered from that disease for the last 11 years of his life.
Where is Frédéric Chopin buried?
Frédéric Chopin is buried at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. His heart is buried at the Church of the Holy Cross in Warsaw, in his native land, Poland.
How did Frédéric Chopin become famous?
Chopin’s father, Nicholas, a French émigré in Poland, was employed as a tutor to various aristocratic families, including the Skarbeks, at Żelazowa Wola, one of whose poorer relations he married. When Frédéric was eight months old, Nicholas became a French teacher at the Warsaw lyceum. Chopin himself attended the lyceum from 1823 to 1826.
All the family had artistic leanings, and even in infancy Chopin was always strangely moved when listening to his mother or eldest sister playing the piano. By age six he was already trying to reproduce what he heard or to make up new tunes. The following year he started piano lessons with the 61-year-old Wojciech Zywny, an all-around musician with an astute sense of values. Zywny’s simple instruction in piano playing was soon left behind by his pupil, who discovered for himself an original approach to the piano and was allowed to develop unhindered by academic rules and formal discipline.
Chopin found himself invited at an early age to play at private soirées, and at eight he made his first public appearance at a charity concert. Three years later he performed in the presence of the Russian tsar Alexander I, who was in Warsaw to open Parliament. Playing was not alone responsible for his growing reputation as a child prodigy. At seven he wrote a Polonaise in G Minor, which was printed, and soon afterward a march of his appealed to the Russian grand duke Constantine, who had it scored for his military band to play on parade. Other polonaises, mazurkas, variations, ecossaises, and a rondo followed, with the result that, when he was 16, his family enrolled him at the newly formed Warsaw Conservatory of Music. This school was directed by the Polish composer Joseph Elsner, with whom Chopin already had been studying musical theory.
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No better teacher could have been found, for, while insisting on a traditional training, Elsner, as a Romantically inclined composer himself, realized that Chopin’s individual imagination must never be checked by purely academic demands. Even before he came under Elsner’s eye, Chopin had shown interest in the folk music of the Polish countryside and had received those impressions that later gave an unmistakable national colouring to his work. At the conservatory he was put through a solid course of instruction in harmony and composition; in piano playing he was allowed to develop a high degree of individuality.
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Mar 1, 2024 · Chopin was one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era – discover our selection of the best Chopin works featuring 10 masterpieces. Frédéric Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso...
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