Frederic Chopin
Frederic Chopin
Frederic Chopin (Fryderyk Chopin, 1810–1849) was a Polish composer and pianist of the Romantic era who wrote almost entirely for the piano. Born near Warsaw to a French father and Polish mother, he performed publicly as a child and studied at the Warsaw Conservatory. In 1830 he left Poland for a concert career abroad; weeks later the November Uprising broke out, and he never returned home. Settling in Paris in 1831, he became a sought-after teacher and salon performer. His nocturnes, études, ballades, preludes and waltzes widened the piano's expressive range, while his mazurkas and polonaises kept the dance rhythms of his homeland alive in exile. He died in Paris at thirty-nine, and at his wish his heart was returned to Warsaw, where it rests in the Church of the Holy Cross. Warsaw has held the International Chopin Piano Competition in his honor since 1927.
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Giants of the Romantic Era
Romanticism prized feeling, imagination and national spirit. Beethoven's music bridged the Classical and Romantic eras. Victor Hugo led French Romantic literature, from the drama Hernani (1830) to Les Misérables (1862). Chopin, who settled in Paris in 1831, gave the piano a new poetic voice. Wagner, who revered Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, reshaped opera as music drama, and Tchaikovsky brought Russian Romanticism to the world with Swan Lake and The Nutcracker.
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