NKhPoM.jpg' alt='Franz Ferdinand Full Discography Torrent' title='Franz Ferdinand Full Discography Torrent' />Frdric Chopin Wikipedia. Frdric Franois Chopin French fedeik fswa p born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin,n 1 1 March 1. October 1. 84. 9 was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era who wrote primarily for the solo piano. He gained and has maintained renown worldwide as a leading musician of his era, whose poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation. Chopin was born in what was then the Duchy of Warsaw and grew up in Warsaw, which in 1. Congress Poland. A child prodigy, he completed his musical education and composed his earlier works in Warsaw before leaving Poland at the age of 2. November 1. 83. 0 Uprising. At 2. 1 he settled in Paris. Thereafter, during the last 1. I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul. Toutes Les Partitions de Musique Affichage 1401 2197 Sur un Total de 2197 Scores. BibMe Free Bibliography Citation Maker MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard. He supported himself by selling his compositions and by teaching piano, for which he was in high demand. Chopin formed a friendship with Franz Liszt and was admired by many of his musical contemporaries, including Robert Schumann. In 1. 83. 5 he obtained French citizenship. After a failed engagement to Maria Wodziska from 1. French writer George Sand. A brief and unhappy visit to Majorca with Sand in 1. In his last years, he was financially supported by his admirer Jane Stirling, who also arranged for him to visit Scotland in 1. Through most of his life, Chopin suffered from poor health. He died in Paris in 1. All of Chopins compositions include the piano. Most are for solo piano, though he also wrote two piano concertos, a few chamber pieces, and some songs to Polish lyrics. His keyboard style is highly individual and often technically demanding his own performances were noted for their nuance and sensitivity. Chopin invented the concept of the instrumental ballade. His major piano works also include mazurkas, waltzes, nocturnes, polonaises, tudes, impromptus, scherzos, preludes and sonatas, some published only after his death. Influences on his composition style include Polish folk music, the classical tradition of J. S. Bach, Mozart and Schubert, as well as the Paris salons where he was a frequent guest. His innovations in style, musical form, and harmony, and his association of music with nationalism, were influential throughout and after the late Romantic period. Chopins music, his status as one of musics earliest superstars, his association if only indirect with political insurrection, his love life and his early death have made him a leading symbol of the Romantic era in the public consciousness. His works remain popular, and he has been the subject of numerous films and biographies of varying degrees of historical accuracy. Life. Childhood. Fryderyk Chopin was born in elazowa Wola,2 4. Warsaw, in what was then the Duchy of Warsaw, a Polish state established by Napoleon. The parish baptismal record gives his birthday as 2. February 1. 81. 0, and cites his given names in the Latin form Fridericus Franciscus2 in Polish, he was Fryderyk Franciszek. However, the composer and his family used the birthdate 1 March,n 22 which is now generally accepted as the correct date. Fryderyks father, Nicolas Chopin, was a Frenchman from Lorraine who had emigrated to Poland in 1. Nicolas tutored children of the Polish aristocracy, and in 1. Justyna Krzyanowska,7 a poor relative of the Skarbeks, one of the families for whom he worked. Fryderyk was baptized on Easter Sunday, 2. April 1. 81. 0, in the same church where his parents had married, in Brochw. His eighteen year old godfather, for whom he was named, was Fryderyk Skarbek, a pupil of Nicolas Chopin. Fryderyk was the couples second child and only son he had an elder sister, Ludwika 1. Izabela 1. 81. 18. Emilia 1. 81. 22. Nicolas was devoted to his adopted homeland, and insisted on the use of the Polish language in the household. In October 1. Fryderyks birth, the family moved to Warsaw, where his father acquired a post teaching French at the Warsaw Lyceum, then housed in the Saxon Palace. Fryderyk lived with his family in the Palace grounds. The father played the flute and violin 1. Chopins kept. 1. 1 Chopin was of slight build, and even in early childhood was prone to illnesses. Fryderyk may have had some piano instruction from his mother, but his first professional music tutor, from 1. Czech pianist Wojciech ywny. His elder sister Ludwika also took lessons from ywny, and occasionally played duets with her brother. It quickly became apparent that he was a child prodigy. By the age of seven Fryderyk had begun giving public concerts, and in 1. G minor and B flat major. His next work, a polonaise in A flat major of 1. In 1. 81. 7 the Saxon Palace was requisitioned by Warsaws Russian governor for military use, and the Warsaw Lyceum was reestablished in the Kazimierz Palace today the rectorate of Warsaw University. Fryderyk and his family moved to a building, which still survives, adjacent to the Kazimierz Palace. During this period, Fryderyk was sometimes invited to the Belweder Palace as playmate to the son of the ruler of Russian Poland, Grand Duke Constantine he played the piano for the Duke and composed a march for him. Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, in his dramatic eclogue, Nasze Przebiegi Our Discourses, 1. Chopins popularity. Education. From September 1. Chopin attended the Warsaw Lyceum, where he received organ lessons from the Czech musician Wilhelm Wrfel during his first year. Print Key 2000 Windows 7. In the autumn of 1. Silesian composer Jzef Elsner at the Warsaw Conservatory, studying music theory, figured bass and composition. Throughout this period he continued to compose and to give recitals in concerts and salons in Warsaw. He was engaged by the inventors of a mechanical organ, the eolomelodicon, and on this instrument in May 1. Moscheles. The success of this concert led to an invitation to give a similar recital on the instrument before Tsar Alexander I, who was visiting Warsaw the Tsar presented him with a diamond ring. At a subsequent eolomelodicon concert on 1. June 1. 82. 5, Chopin performed his Rondo Op. This was the first of his works to be commercially published and earned him his first mention in the foreign press, when the Leipzig Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung praised his wealth of musical ideas. During 1. 82. 42. Chopin spent his vacations away from Warsaw, at a number of locales. In 1. Szafarnia, he was a guest of Dominik Dziewanowski, the father of a schoolmate. Here for the first time he encountered Polish rural folk music. His letters home from Szafarnia to which he gave the title The Szafarnia Courier, written in a very modern and lively Polish, amused his family with their spoofing of the Warsaw newspapers and demonstrated the youngsters literary gift. In 1. 82. 7, soon after the death of Chopins youngest sister Emilia, the family moved from the Warsaw University building, adjacent to the Kazimierz Palace, to lodgings just across the street from the university, in the south annex of the Krasiski Palace on Krakowskie Przedmiecie,n 5 where Chopin lived until he left Warsaw in 1. Here his parents continued running their boarding house for male students the Chopin Family Parlour Salonik Chopinw became a museum in the 2.