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FRYDERYK CHOPIN
Most famous polish
composer
Chopin was born in
the village of Żelazowa
Wola, in the Duchy of
Warsaw, to a Frenchexpatriate father and
Polish mother and was
regarded as a childprodigy pianist.
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On 2 November 1830, at the age of twenty, he left Warsaw for Austria,
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intending to go on to Italy. The outbreak
of the Polish November
Uprising seven days later, and its subsequent suppression by Russia, led
to Chopin becoming one of many expatriates of the Polish Great
Emigration
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In Paris, Chopin made a comfortable living as a composer and piano
teacher, while giving few public performances. Though an ardent Polish
patriot, in France he used the French versions of his names and
eventually, to avoid having to rely on Imperial Russian documents,
became a French citizen After some ill-fated romantic involvements
with Polish women, from 1837 to 1847 he had a turbulent relationship
with the French authoress George Sand. Always in frail health, he died
in Paris in 1849, aged thirty-nine, of pulmonary tuberculosis
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Chopin's compositions were
written primarily for the piano as
solo instrument. Though they are
technically demanding, the
emphasis in his style is on nuance
and expressive depth. Chopin
invented musical forms such as
the instrumental ballade and was
responsible for major innovations
in the piano sonata, mazurka,
waltz, nocturne, étude, impromptu
and prelude.
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Chopin composed:
•58 mazurkas
•27 études (twelve in the Op. 10 cycle,
twelve in the Op. 25 cycle, and three in a
collection without an opus number)
•26 preludes
•21 nocturnes
•20 waltzes
•17 polonaises (one with orchestral
accompaniment, and one for cello with
accompanying piano)
•5 rondos
•4 ballades
•4 impromptus
•4 scherzos
•4 sets of variations
•3 piano sonatas, Opp. 4, 35, and 58
•3 écossaises
•2 concertos for piano and orchestra,
Opp. 11 and 21
•He also composed a barcarolle, a
fantasia for piano, a berceuse, a bolero, a
tarantella, a contredanse, a fugue, a
cantabile, and a lento. For solo piano
Chopin also wrote an Andante spianato
(for the Grande Polonaise in E-flat major,
Op. 22); a Funeral March; a Souvenir de
Paganini; a Feuille d'album; and an
Allegro de concert (possibly the remnant
of an incomplete 3rd concerto).
FRYDERYK CHOPIN
1810 - 1849
Chopin statue, Warsaw's Royal Baths Park
Stylized rendition of Delacroix's joint
portrait of Chopin and George Sand.