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POLAND a native country
of Fryderyk Chopin
By Halina Brodska
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Welcome to Fryderyk Chopin Airport, Warsaw, intones
the flight attendant.
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You can see giant letters proclaim the name of the
composer who wrote some of the best-loved piano music
in the world.
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Here at Poland’s very gateway, Chopin is the national
symbol chosen to introduce the country to its visitors.
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But wait……
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Chopin is not a Polish surname, and his first one is often
spelled Frédéric.
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Wasn’t he French? No. Chopin was Polish.
F.Chopin was born in 1810 in Warsaw.
The Father Mikołaj was Frenchman by
birth, but Pole through his choice of
homeland, where He remained to the
end of his life.
His mother named Tekla Justyna
Krzyżanowska was a relative of Polish
Countess Ludwika Skarbkowa, owner of
the Zelazowa Wola.
His first professor was Wojciech Żywny next was
Józef Elsner.
Chopin published his first composition at the age 7.
In 19830 Chopin emigrated to Paris. In 1936 he met
George Sand ( Aurore Dedevant) a French writer and
he has with her a turbulent relationship few years.
George Sand was a pipe smoker and flamboyant party
goer.
Chopin spent his summer time during 8 years at the
Sand,s estate in Nohant.
In 19830 Chopin emigrated to Paris. In 1936 he met
George Sand ( Aurore Dedevant) a French writer and
he has with her a turbulent relationship few years.
George Sand was a pipe smoker and flamboyant party
goer.
Chopin spent his summer time during 8 years at the
Sand,s estate in Nohant.
The Portrait of Frédéric Chopin and George Sand
was an 1838 unfinished oil-on-canvas painting by
French artist Eugène Delacroix. Originally a double
portrait, it was later cut in two and sold off as
separate pieces. It showed composer Frédéric Chopin
(1810–49) playing piano while writer George Sand
(1804–76) sits to his right, listening and sewing (a
favorite activity of hers) Today Chopin's portrait is
housed at the Louvre in Paris, while Sand's hangs at
Copenhagen's Ordrupgaard Museum.
The composer suffered from bronchial asthma
and tuberculosis.
Because of that he spent the winter 1938-39
together with George Sand on Majorca, living in an
abandoned Carthusian monastery in Valldemossa
The composer died
in 1849 in Paris.
photo by Louis-August Bisson,
1849 (few months before the
death of the composer)
The famous signature of Frederic Chopin
and the autograph of one Prelude.
Piano from his
Parisian house.
The F.Chopin’s Museum
in Warsaw.
In truth, there has never been any doubt about Chopin’s
nationality.
One only has to hear his music
 with traditional dances
 underpinning all those mazurkas
 and dark, dramatic polonaises
to appreciate that he had an innate feel for the spirit of
Poland.
His letters show that he and his family conversed in
Polish at a high intellectual level.
All of Chopin's compositions include the piano; most are for solo
piano.
He also wrote two piano concertos, a few chamber pieces, and
some songs to Polish lyrics.
His keyboard style, which is highly individual, is often technically
demanding.
His own performances were noted for their nuance and
sensitivity.
Chopin invented the concept of instrumental ballade
His major piano works also include
 sonatas
 mazurkas
 waltzes
 nocturnes
 polonaises
 études
 impromptus
 scherzos
 preludes
some published only after his death
Many contain elements of both Polish folk music and of
the classical tradition of J.S. Bach, Mozart and
Schubert, whom he particularly admired.
His innovations in style, musical form, and harmony, and
his association of music with nationalism, were influential
throughout and after the late Romantic period.
Chopin is one of music's earliest SUPERSTARS
His early death have made him a leading symbol
of the Romantic era.
His works remain popular, and he has been the subject of
numerous films and biographies of varying degrees of
historical accuracy.
Every year arrive to Poland many tourists from
allover the world to visit place regarding to Chopin’s
live and to listen to his music.
First place to visit is Zelazowa Wola
a place to which everyone wishing to get to know Poland
and her culture head
It is there that F. Chopin was born in 1810 the brilliant
composer whose music has aroused delight and
admiration among listeners across the world for decades
It still tells the world so much about Poland and Poles.
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Every Sundays, from May to September
since 1954 there
are the piano concert played by outstanding pianists
All the windows are opened wide and the manor and park
are filed with the sounds of Fryderyk Chopin music
This beautiful tradition always attracts large audiences.
And it is singularly esteemed among pianist from all over
the world.
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Even the greatest among them regard it as an honour to
give a Chopin recital here.
Over the years, the Music Room at Chopin’s birthplace has
hosted probably all the most celebrated master of the
piano.
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After the concert, it is customary to take a walk around the park
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INTERNATIONAL FRYDERYK CHOPIN
PIANO COMPETITON
The international F. Chopin Piano Competition is one
of the earliest music competitions in the world, one
which has achieved great prestige and international
fame.
Competition has place every 5 years. It is a kind of the
Olympic Games for young pianists.
The first Contest was held in January 1927 in the Philharmonic Hall made
available for that occasion, next in 1932 and then in 1937.
The second world war made impossible to organize the
Competition in 1942.
The first postwar Competition was held in 1949 in the
former cinema hall ”Roma” that had escaped destruction,
then the temporary seat of the Philharmonic and Warsaw
Opera House
Till 1965 competitions were held winter months, being
placed near anniversary of Chopin’s birth of February,22.
But for quite prosaic reason namely the sickness with flu
which affected that time many competitors the date was
change for October.
To be a winner of Competition that means the beginning of
the international career.
Thanks to Chopin Competition became famous many artits
like:
Lew Oborin, Witold Małcuźyński, Bella Dawidowicz, Halina
Czerny-Stefańska, Wladimir Aszkenzi,
Fu Ts’ong, Martha Argerich, Garrick Ohlsson, Krystian
Zimerman….
The jury member are the greatest pianist from all over the
world.
F. Chopin Competition has been devoted all time to the
perform of music by a single composer.
The winner receives 30.000,- Euro provided by the
President of the Polish Republic, gold medal and a lot of
engagements in many countries
Among the regular events accompanying the
Competition, here have been since 1975 celebrations
marking the anniversary of the composer’s death,
October 17.
On that occasion, in the Saint Cross Church, where the
composer’s heart is kept in the wall, Mozart requiem is
performed.
It is just with the performance of this work that
farewell to Chopin was given in St. Magdalene’s Church in
Paris on October 1849.
It was in fulfillment to the composer’s will.
The next Competitions will take place in October, 2015.
Thank you for your attention