Frederic Chopin was a famous Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He was born in 1810 in Poland and showed early musical talent, performing his first public concert at age 8. Chopin studied music formally and moved to Paris in 1830, where he lived for 18 years and produced many of his best-known works. Though he suffered from poor health, Chopin composed extensively for piano and is renowned for genres like mazurkas, etudes, waltzes, and polonaises. He died of tuberculosis in 1849.

1. Frederic Chopin
Presentation by: Craig Robbins

2.  Musician
 Composer
 Virtuoso & Child Prodigy
 Music Teacher
 Famous Man
Whose “poetic genius was based on a professional
technique that was without equal of his generation”
Who Is He?

3.  Born March 1, 1810 in Zelazowa Wola in Poland
 Family of three sister and a Polish Mother, Justyna
and French Father, Nicloas
 Noted for his piano playing, but was a fine violinist
too
 His mother was his first teacher
His Life

4.  His first composition was at 7 yrs. old
 First public performance at 8 yrs. old
 Studied with Jozef Elsner at the Warsaw
Conservatory in the Fall of 1826
 Finished his formal education in 1830
 Good friends with Franz Liszt and Robert Schumann

5.  Moved to Paris in 1830 where he would live for 18
years and write some of his best works
 Much of his life he would suffer from poor health
 Financially supported by his admirer, Jane Stirling
 Stirling was an amateur Scottish pianist, referred to as
his widow
 He would die most likely of tuberculosis in October of
1849
Traveling & Playing

6.  58 mazurkas
 27 etudes
 20 waltzes
 17 polonaises
 4 ballades
 And a whole lot of others!
 Also noted as one of the first virtuosos to
invent/compose the instrumental ballade
Famous Works

7.  Rondo in C minor (1825)
 Ballade No. 1 in G minor (1835)
 Nocturne in E-Flat Major (1831)
Listening Examples

8.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Ch
opin
 http://www.chopinmusic.net/works/list/
 http://www.ourchopin.com/biography.html
Works Cited