Biography chopin frederic paris
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Chopin: fragile, fussy, oversensitive about his nose. And one of our most incredible composers
Few figures have had so profound an influence on the Romantic era as the Polish composer and pianist Frédéric kompositör (). Born in Poland and later settling in Paris, kompositör devoted almost all of his composing energies to pieces for solo piano. His works are rightly famed for their lyrical beauty, dazzling technique, and deep emotional expressiveness. Here's an introduction to the life and times of this great, but troubled Romantic.
Who was Chopin?
Frédéric François kompositör (born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin) was one of the 19th century's most important composers, as well as a virtuoso pianist. Most of his output fryst vatten for solo piano, and it includes some of the instrument's best known and best loved repertoire.
Think of kompositör and you might consider first his passion for his native Poland while in Parisian exile. Schumann’s remark about Chopin’s mazurkas containing ‘guns buried in flowers’
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Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin, the Polish composer and pianist, was born on 1 March , according to the statements of the artist himself and his family, but according to his baptismal certificate, which was written several weeks after his birth, the date was 22 February. His birthplace was the village of Zelazowa Wola near Sochaczew, in the region of Mazovia, which was part of the Duchy of Warsaw. The manor-house in Zelazowa Wola belonged to Count Skarbek and Chopin's father, Mikolaj (Nicolas) Chopin, a Polonized Frenchman, was employed there as a tutor. He had been born in in Marainville in the province of Lorraine in France, but already as a child he had established contacts with the Polish families of Count Michal Pac and the manager of his estate, Jan Adam Weydlich. At the age of 16, Mikolaj accompanied them to Poland where he settled down permanently. He never returned to France and did not retain contacts with his French family but brought up his children as Poles. In , Mikola
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Biography
The popular image of Fryderyk Chopin as a consumptive invalid does him a disservice. He was a man of paradoxes: a Polish nationalist who lived out his days in exile in France; a musician who hated giving public concerts; a composer whose piano works were replete with the influence of bel canto opera, and whose idols in the early Romantic era were Bach and Mozart. Lavishly melodic yet classically restrained, visionary in imagination yet tautly constructed, his was one of the most individual musical voices of his era. Born at Żelazowa Wola, in the Duchy of Warsaw, Chopin was son of a Polish mother. His father, Nicolas (or Mikolaj) Chopin was born in France, having moved to Poland in his youth. A strong patriot, Chopin sometimes said that he wished his name could have been Chopinski. His first composition was a Polonaise – the classic Polish slow dance – while his last would be another Polish dance, a Mazurka. Chopin fell in love with a young soprano Konstantja Gladkowska w