Chopin biography plan

At the age of 7, he began to study the piano playing the Czech pianist of Wojciech Lyubov, and later began to take classes in musical theory from the Polish composer Joseph Elsner.

In the year, at the age of 19, Chopin begins concert activity. He performs his works in Vienna and Krakow, and then returns to Warsaw for the last time. Having said goodbye to friends, the composer leaves the city forever due to the aggravated political situation. Subsequently, the composer will often be inspired by his native culture, and his heart bequeathed to Polish land before death.

In the year, Chopin moves to Paris, where he quickly gains popularity thanks to his romantic compositions and their virtuoso performance. Over time, Chopin also begins to teach. Henry Semiradsky. This was largely facilitated by a difficult relationship and a subsequent break with the French writer Georges Sand Aurora Dupin. Due to the heavy parting with his beloved, Chopin leaves Paris and leaves for London.

The British climate, constant stress and chronic lung disease finally undermine its well -being. The pianist gives his last concert on November 16 in London, and a year later he dies on French land. Fragments of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart were sounded on Chopin's funerals. Polish romance was buried in the Paris cemetery of Pere Lashez, and the heart, according to his will, was sent to Warsaw, where it was walled up to the column of the Church of the Holy Cross.

Lionello Belleri. Indeed, his music is permeated with melancholy and dreamy moods, and the innovative approach to some genres allowed Frederick Chopin to become one of the leading representatives of romanticism. The main tool in the composer’s life was piano. Chopin did not just write music for this instrument, but noticeably enriched his genres, giving the melodies a new texture: he changed the purpose of the prelude, created a piano ballad, turned Scratzo into an independent work.

In his writings, Frederick Chopin often turned to Polish culture. For example, in his waltzes, polonaose and fuel oils you can hear echoes of folk motifs. Thanks to the composer, they begin to sound more poetized and not act as part of folklore, but as a separate professional work. The joy of the spring awakening of nature here is combined with light sadness. Such an weaving characteristic of many Nokturturns of the Polish maestro.

Listen to nocturne no. The work reflects the feelings that swept Chopin due to the collapse of the uprising against the Russian autocracy in Poland. Starting as a heroic composition, by the end of the sketch acquires alarming and mournful moods. Listen to etude for piano no. Before Chopin, the work of this genre only preceded the beginning of fugs, sonata, chorales.

But the composer managed to revive the preludes, turning them into independent finished plays. In total, he wrote 24 preludes. Listen to Chopin Preludes: No. It begins with a leisurely melody, and then goes into a more lively part with unusual passages, so that at the end it slows down again. Listen to Waltz No.