Fryderyk Chopin was a famous Polish composer and pianist born in 1810 in Żelazowa Wola near Warsaw, Poland. He is considered one of the most important composers of the Romantic era. Chopin began playing the piano at a young age and showed great talent from an early age. He traveled throughout Poland learning folk music which influenced his own compositions. Chopin moved to Paris in 1831 where he spent much of the rest of his life composing works exclusively for the piano, becoming one of the most renowned pianists of his time. Chopin fell ill with tuberculosis and died in Paris in 1849 at the age of 39.
Uzi Ben-Ami, Ph.D., is a Maryland-licensed psychologist with more than four decades of experience. Outside of his professional responsibilities, Uzi Ben-Ami, Ph.D., has developed a deep appreciation for symphonic music, including the works of Igor Stravinsky.
Frédéric Chopin On March 1st, 1810, Fryderyk Franciszek ChopinJeanmarieColbert3
Frédéric Chopin
On March 1st, 1810, Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin was born in Zelazowa Wola Village in Poland. At the age of 6, Chopin began to show musical talents on the piano and was writing verse and composing by the age of 7. Chopin began performing at salons at age 8 and it was not long before his skills surpassed those of his own piano teacher and was deemed a child prodigy.
In 1826, Chopin's father enrolled him in the Main School of Music at Warsaw University. During the time he was in school he composed two important variations: Mozart’s Op.2 on the theme of La ci darem la mano and the Sonata in C minor, Op.4 (Chopin Institute 6), which were published and pushed his career forward. After graduating from the School of Music in July 1829, Chopin left to travel to Vienna, for a tour like experience. He gave two concerts in Vienna, in which he performed “Op.2 and Rondo” and “Op.13 and improvised”. Soon after he returned home to Warsaw, he made a reluctant return to Vienna in hopes of continuing his success, but his second trip was very different from his first. After he left, there was an uprising in Poland that prevented him from being able to visit or see his family or his home. In his distress he performed almost no concerts and the music that he did compose during that time was influenced by the gloomy mindset that he had about his family’s situation.
After eight weeks in Vienna, Chopin moved to Paris, which at the time was the focal point of romanticism in music and the center of the pianistic world (Walker 20). Chopin made a comfortable living teaching piano to the daughters of the rich and also had a very lively social life, being associated with other artists such as Eugene Delacroix, Franz Liszt, and Hector Berlioz. In the late 1830s, Chopin began an affair with Aurore Dudevant, a novelist more commonly known as George Sand. When Chopin was with Sand he came to a new point in his career, producing a remarkable amount of compositions. During their time together, even in the midst of his troubles with tuberculosis, Chopin produced works such as the B minor sonata, the Op.55 Nocturnes and the Op.56 Mazurkas which are characterized by remarkable refinement and complexity (Libbey). As years passed, his relationship with Sand came to an end and his health was deteriorating even more. He died on October 17, 1849, at age 39, from his tuberculosis.
Megan Gannon for livescience.com wrote that Chopin’s last recorded words were: “Swear to make them cut me open, so I won’t be buried alive.” It was said that Chopin had a terrible fear of being buried prematurely so as a result his body was buried at the Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris and his heart is now kept in a crypt at the Holy Cross Church in Warsaw, Poland.
Frédéric Chopin was a composer in the Romantic Era. Chopin is infamous for being the first genius to be completely devoted to piano and compose piano centered pieces only. He composed extremely emotional music and many miniatures, ...
Uzi Ben-Ami, Ph.D., is a Maryland-licensed psychologist with more than four decades of experience. Outside of his professional responsibilities, Uzi Ben-Ami, Ph.D., has developed a deep appreciation for symphonic music, including the works of Igor Stravinsky.
Frédéric Chopin On March 1st, 1810, Fryderyk Franciszek ChopinJeanmarieColbert3
Frédéric Chopin
On March 1st, 1810, Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin was born in Zelazowa Wola Village in Poland. At the age of 6, Chopin began to show musical talents on the piano and was writing verse and composing by the age of 7. Chopin began performing at salons at age 8 and it was not long before his skills surpassed those of his own piano teacher and was deemed a child prodigy.
In 1826, Chopin's father enrolled him in the Main School of Music at Warsaw University. During the time he was in school he composed two important variations: Mozart’s Op.2 on the theme of La ci darem la mano and the Sonata in C minor, Op.4 (Chopin Institute 6), which were published and pushed his career forward. After graduating from the School of Music in July 1829, Chopin left to travel to Vienna, for a tour like experience. He gave two concerts in Vienna, in which he performed “Op.2 and Rondo” and “Op.13 and improvised”. Soon after he returned home to Warsaw, he made a reluctant return to Vienna in hopes of continuing his success, but his second trip was very different from his first. After he left, there was an uprising in Poland that prevented him from being able to visit or see his family or his home. In his distress he performed almost no concerts and the music that he did compose during that time was influenced by the gloomy mindset that he had about his family’s situation.
After eight weeks in Vienna, Chopin moved to Paris, which at the time was the focal point of romanticism in music and the center of the pianistic world (Walker 20). Chopin made a comfortable living teaching piano to the daughters of the rich and also had a very lively social life, being associated with other artists such as Eugene Delacroix, Franz Liszt, and Hector Berlioz. In the late 1830s, Chopin began an affair with Aurore Dudevant, a novelist more commonly known as George Sand. When Chopin was with Sand he came to a new point in his career, producing a remarkable amount of compositions. During their time together, even in the midst of his troubles with tuberculosis, Chopin produced works such as the B minor sonata, the Op.55 Nocturnes and the Op.56 Mazurkas which are characterized by remarkable refinement and complexity (Libbey). As years passed, his relationship with Sand came to an end and his health was deteriorating even more. He died on October 17, 1849, at age 39, from his tuberculosis.
Megan Gannon for livescience.com wrote that Chopin’s last recorded words were: “Swear to make them cut me open, so I won’t be buried alive.” It was said that Chopin had a terrible fear of being buried prematurely so as a result his body was buried at the Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris and his heart is now kept in a crypt at the Holy Cross Church in Warsaw, Poland.
Frédéric Chopin was a composer in the Romantic Era. Chopin is infamous for being the first genius to be completely devoted to piano and compose piano centered pieces only. He composed extremely emotional music and many miniatures, ...
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Nocturne in B Major and the Man Behind it
Franz Liszt described Chopin as:
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Frederic Chopin was a Polish composer and is considered one of the greatest composers during the Romantic era. Regardless of Chopin’s impression in the minds of the world, his reputation all comes from his music composition. There are many sides to his personality: full of grief after hearing of the fall of Poland, in the sway of the heroic piano etudes, but even in his most dejected, existential crisis, he published a happy waltz. Works independent from the composer's personal life are what make Chopin so fascinating. The best way to understand more about Chopin is to know about his music works.
In understanding his work and his thinking in its development, additional information is supplemented from emotional and subjective material. For example, American pianist Garrick Ohlsson’s interpretations of Chopin Nocturne in B Major, Op.32 No.1 in the Chopin Competition
1 http://www.chopinproject.com/chopin-quotepage/quotes-about-chopin/
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4. LIFE OF CHOPIN
Chopin is considered one of the most
important composers of the romantic, as well
as one of the most important Polish
composers in history. He was one of the most
famous pianists of his time, often called the
poet of the piano.
5. CHILDHOOD
At baptism he was given the names
of Fryderyk Franciszek in honor of
his godfather, and probably his
grandfather - François.
6. CHILDHOOD
At the turn of the fourth and
fifth year of his life,
Chopin began to play the
piano, initially with his
mother.
7. CHILDHOOD
In 1816, he began
taking lessons
from Wojciech
Żywny. He learned
very quickly .
8. CHILDHOOD
Aleksandra Tarczewska wrote about Chopin:
"It was enough [...] after one evening
of young Chopin’s play, when he was
eighth , for experts to say that Chopin
would replace Mozart"
10. CREATION
Chopin created almost exclusively
works for piano, an instrument
typical of the Romantic period of
music.
During the national partitions
Chopin's work symbolized the
patriotic feelings.
11. CREATION
Trips - to Szafarnia Dusznik,Toruń, Gdańsk, Płock
and other towns of Wielkopolska, Pomerania and
Silesia, Chopin allowed to know the treasures of
Polish culture and Polish folk music, which he did
not forget the rest of your life.
12. CREATION
He created:
57 mazurkas, 16 Polonaises, 19 rolls, 19 nocturnes, 4
ballades, 4 scherzo, 26 preludes, 27 etudes, 17
songs, two piano concertos, 4 Impromptus
14. THE LAST INTERVAL
OF LIVE
After the outbreak of the revolution in Paris
in 1848 Chopin went to England and
Scotland. He had been ill with
tuberculosis.
15. THE LAST INTERVAL
OF LIVE
Chopin's illness and the cause of his
untimely death at the age of 39 still
remain unclear.
Image of „The Last Moments Of
Frederic Chopin" Theophilus
Kwiatkowski
16. THE LAST INTERVAL
OF LIVE
Chopin died in the environment of several
people close to him around 2 am on Oct. 17,
1849.
19. THE END
Information derived from:
http://pl.chopin.nifc.pl/chopin/life/biography/page/1
http://www.chopin.info.pl/show.php?DOC=jego_epoka
http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choroba_Fryderyka_Chopina
http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fryderyk_Chopin#Ostatni_okres_.C5.BC
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http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_dzie%C5%82_Fryderyka_Chopina
