![]() ![]() The critic François-Joseph Fétis wrote in the Revue et gazette musicale: "Here is a young man who . 2 Variations in the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung (his first published article on music), declared: "Hats off, gentlemen! A genius." On 25 February 1832 Chopin gave a debut Paris concert in the "salons de MM Pleyel" at 9 rue Cadet, which drew universal admiration. On 7 December 1831, Chopin received the first major endorsement from an outstanding contemporary when Robert Schumann, reviewing the 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". At a subsequent aeolopantaleon concert on 10 June 1825, Chopin performed his Rondo Op. The success of this concert led to an invitation to give a recital on a similar instrument (the "aeolopantaleon") before Tsar Alexander I, who was visiting Warsaw the Tsar presented him with a diamond ring. He was engaged by the inventors of the "aeolomelodicon" (a combination of piano and mechanical organ), and on this instrument, in May 1825 he performed his own improvisation and part of a concerto by Moscheles. Throughout this period he continued to compose and to give recitals in concerts and salons in Warsaw. In the autumn of 1826 he began a three-year course under the Silesian composer Józef Elsner at the Warsaw Conservatory, studying music theory, figured bass, and composition. posth 66Ĭomposed in 1835 Chopin did not want this work to come to light because he said it was very similar to Beethoven’s Claro de Luna, and to avoid the criticism that this could generate he told his friend Julian Fontana to burn it, but fortunately this is not what he did and after dying Chopin published it.From September 1823 to 1826, Chopin attended the Warsaw Lyceum, where he received organ lessons from the Czech musician Wilhelm Würfel during his first year. 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. Frédéric Chopin grew up in a middle class family. ![]()
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