![]() ![]() The best known is the waltz of the minute, although its interpretation usually lasts one minute forty seconds seems that the term minute does not refer to the duration of the piece. He began to compose them at the age of 14 and he was doing it during all his life. ![]() It seems that Chopin could compose around 36 waltzes, concert pieces not to be danced. It is a work of praise to his land, although it does not follow the classic polonaise form. 53, “The Heroic Polonaise”.Ĭomposed in 1842, when Chopin had great health problems and usually being in bed with fevers and vomiting. He composed his third sonata in 1844 and is dedicated to Countess Emilie de Perthuis. The three are considered the most difficult works of the composer along with Polonaise-Fantaisia, Op. 58Ĭhopin wrote three sonatas for piano of which two were published while he still alive. ![]() 10, dedicated to Liszt like the others of this opus, takes its name from the revolution of the cadets in Poland against the Russian ruling in 1831.ħ. They are distributed in opus 10, 25 and three separate studies. Chopin wrote a total of 27 studies between 18. 12 in C minor, “the revolutionary study”.Ĭhopin’s studies are considered as masterpieces of the technique and are a reference for every pianist. It seems that Chopin was modeled after Jonh Field (1782-1837) considered the creator of the nocturnes, although clearly Chopin developed this idea. In his Opus 9 there are three of the best known. 9īetween 18, Chopin wrote a total of 21 piano pieces under the name of Nocturnes divided into different Opus numbers. The relationship will end in 1848, and after a busy schedule of concerts in the British Isles Chopin will return to Paris to die the following year.Īlmost all its production is dedicated to the piano only with a few exceptions. The next seven years proved to be the happiest and most productive period of Chopin’s life. After a period of recovery in this city, in May 1839, Chopin and Sand settled down south of Paris at Nohant, Sand’s cottage. In 1839, Sand takes Chopin to Marseille, where he is diagnosed with tuberculosis. With the aim of improving the always battered health of the composer, the couple spends the winter on the Spanish island of Mallorca, where Chopin fell ill. In 1838 he began a love story with the French novelist Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, called George Sand. Although Chopin had juvenile love affairs and was once engaged, none of his relationships lasted more than a year. In 1829 he made a stay in Vienna to be trained to a greater extent, but it was in 1832 when he moved to Paris, where he interacted with high society. At age 7 he published his first composition and began acting a year later giving signs of child prodigy. His very last public concert took place in London as a special event raising money for Polish refugees, shortly before he died, in Paris, at the age of just 39.Frédéric Chopin grew up in a middle class family. Much like Liszt, he extended the demands placed on performer and instrument alike and left a tremendous, lasting impact on piano music. His evocative, intensely imaginative style, coupled with developments in piano manufacturing at the time, meant he was able to push the boundaries, not just of the instrument's power, but more importantly to create a wider range of colour, resonance and softness. ![]() His skill at improvisation was legendary and many of his compositions first took form in such moments of spontaneity at the keyboard. First-hand accounts describe his playing and his very particular approach to matters such as rubato, rhythm and beauty of tone. Chopin performed constantly in salon soirées for intimate groups of friends and admirers, made up of Liszt, Berlioz, Mendelssohn, Rossini, Bellini, Balzac, Heine and Delacroix, to name but a few. He settled in Paris after the Polish Uprising in 1830, where he soon found himself in demand both socially and as a superb teacher. He gave his first concerts at the age of eight, despite receiving little professional instruction. Lavishly melodic, yet classically restrained visionary in imagination, yet tautly constructed – his was one of the most individual musical voices of his era.īorn in Poland in 1810 to a Polish mother and French father, Chopin had an exceptional pianistic talent which was recognised early. Frédéric Chopin 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. ![]()
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