Frédéric Chopin
Composer
Chopin: 10 steps to greatness...15, he played for the visiting Tsar of Russia. 4 Conquering the world Chafing in Warsaw, the 21-year-old Chopin set off round Europe, pitching up in 1831 in Paris. Within a few months he was friendly with writers such as Victor Hugo,... In this article: Frederic Chopin, Paris, Europe, Warsaw, Eugene Delacroix, Hector Berlioz, Camille Saint-Saens, and Victor Hugo |
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Romantic music
...small "characteristic" piano forms and dances. Early Romantic composers of a slightly later generation included Franz Liszt, Felix Mendelssohn, Frederic Chopin, and Hector Berlioz. All were born in the 19th century, and produced works...
In this article: Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner, Nationalism, Robert Schumann, Felix Mendelssohn, Hector Berlioz, Franz Schubert, and J. S. Bach
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Xaver Scharwenka
...and Liszt. Scharwenka made several recordings for Columbia Records in c. 1905 and c. 1908, including works of his own, as well as Chopin, Mendelssohn , Weber and Liszt: his account of Chopin's Fantaisie-Impromptu (Op. posth. 66) is...
In this article: Xaver Scharwenka, Franz Liszt, Berlin, Theodor Kullak, Jose Vianna da Motta, Ludwig van Beethoven, Hector Berlioz, and Stephen Hough
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Stephen Heller
...by a wealthy patron of music. At the age of 25, he travelled to Paris, where he became closely acquainted with Hector Berlioz, Frederic Chopin, Franz Liszt and other renowned composers of his era. Here Heller eventually achieved...
In this article: Stephen Heller, Carl Czerny, Paris, Budapest, Hamburg, Augsburg, Vienna, Charles Halle, and Hector Berlioz
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Franz Liszt
...a planned Goethe foundation at Weimar, and other subjects. In addition to these essays, Liszt wrote a book about Chopin as well as a book about the Gypsies and their music in Hungary. While all of those literary works were published under...
In this article: Franz Liszt, Hector Berlioz, Budapest, Richard Wagner, and Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein
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Wilhelm von Lenz
...official and writer. Wilhelm von Lenz was a friend of many mid-century Romantic composers, including Franz Liszt, Frederic Chopin and Hector Berlioz, Lenz's most important and influential work was an early biography of the German composer...
In this article: Ludwig van Beethoven, Hector Berlioz, Franz Liszt, Francois-Joseph Fetis, Saint Petersburg, and Riga
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Anton Reicha
...Hector Berlioz became Reicha's students, Charles Gounod followed some time later. Frederic Chopin considered studying with him in 1829, but decided not to. In June 1835 Cesar Franck started studying with him, although only did so for 10...
In this article: Anton Reicha, Vienna, Paris, Josef Reicha, Bonn, Joseph Haydn, Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Antonio Salieri, and Hamburg
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Pauline Viardot
Renowned for her wide range and her dramatic roles on stage, Viardot's performances inspired composers such as Frederic Chopin, Berlioz, Camille Saint-Saens (who dedicated Samson and Delilah '' to her, and wanted her to sing the title...
In this article: Pauline Viardot, Camille Saint-Saens, Ivan Turgenev, Franz Liszt, London, Paris, and Adelaide Kemble
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Robert Schumann
..., Beethoven and Weber , while he also promoted the work of some contemporary composers, including Chopin (who did not like Schumann's work) and Berlioz , whom he praised for creating music of substance. On the other hand, Schumann...
In this article: Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Friedrich Wieck, Leipzig, Franz Schubert, Suicide, Zwickau, and Franz Liszt
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Poldowski
...(who studied under Johann Peter Pixis, Francois-Joseph Fetis and Friedrich Kalkbrenner and was a close friend of Frederic Chopin and Hector Berlioz) and a member of a London family that had had associations with Rossini , Meyerbeer , Jenny...
In this article: Paul Verlaine, London, Brussels, and Nellie Melba
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Frédéric Chopin (Fryderyk [Franciszek] Chopin, sometimes Szopen; Frédéric [François] Chopin; surname pronounced: /ˈʃoʊpæn/ in English; ; 1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He was one of the great masters of Romantic music.
Chopin was born in the village of Żelazowa Wola, in the Duchy of Warsaw, to a French-expatriate father and Polish mother and was regarded as a child-prodigy pianist. On 2 November 1830, at the age of twenty, he left Warsaw for Austria, intending to go on to Italy. The outbreak of the Polish November Uprising seven days later, and its subsequent suppression by Russia, led to Chopin becoming one of many expatriates of the Polish Great Emigration.
In Paris, Chopin made a comfortable living as a composer and piano teacher, while giving few public performances. Though an ardent Polish patriot, in France he used the French versions of his names and eventually, to avoid having to rely on Imperial Russian documents, became a French citizen. After some ill-fated romantic involvements with Polish women, from 1837 to 1847 he had a turbulent relationship with the French authoress George Sand. Always in frail health, he died in Paris in 1849, aged thirty-nine, of pulmonary tuberculosis.
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