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	CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Chopin Biography
		Chopin was born in 1810 in Poland to a French father and Polish mother.
		Chopin is one of the few greatest composers to be known primarily for his work for a solo instrument.
		Chopin's discovery of the piano's potential to inhabit a complete and poetic world of song and color set the standard for all piano writing of the latter part of the century.
	www.classicalarchives.com /bios/chopin_bio.html (1290 words)

	Frederic Chopin - an overview of the classical composer
		Frederic Chopin was born in Poland of a Polish mother, and his country of origin clearly influenced Chopin to the extent that he wrote many Mazurkas and Polonaises based on Polish dances.
		Chopin was not particularly healthy and developed tuberculosis, which he endured for several years before his death at the age of 39.
		Chopin was a skilled pianist, and a large proportion of his works are for solo piano.
	www.mfiles.co.uk /composers/Frederic-Chopin.htm (744 words)

	The Chopin Society - Chopin's visit to Britain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Chopin spent two nights at the Douglas Hotel in St. Andrew Square, and then on the 7th was driven the fifteen miles to Calder House, home of Jane's brother-in-law, Lord Torphichen.
		Chopin was to give a concert in Edinburgh during the Caledonian Rout and this took place at the Hopetown Rooms on October 4th.
		Chopin had told Jane that she was the only one who knew his true date of birth.
	www.chopin-society.org.uk /article.htm (2115 words)

	- Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3
		Virtually everything important Chopin wrote is for the piano and his songs are a minor part of his output.
		Chopin wrote an Introduction and Polonaise for cello and piano for an early patron and towards the end of his life a Cello Sonata.
		All Chopin's music is of the greatest musical and technical importance, melodies often of operatic inspiration and harmonies and forms of considerable originality.
	www.karadar.com /Dictionary/chopin.html (478 words)

	Chopin - biography
		Chopin became well acquainted with the folk music of the Polish plains in its authentic form, with its distinct tonality, richness of rhythms and dance vigour.
		Chopin, endowed by nature with magnificent melodic invention, ease of free improvisation and an inclination towards brilliant effects and perfect harmony, gained in Elsner's school a solid grounding, discipline, and precision of construction, as well as an understanding of the meaning and logic of each note.
		For many weeks, he remained so weak as to be unable to leave the house but nonetheless, continued to work intensively and composed a number of masterpieces: the series of 24 preludes, the Polonaise in C minor, the Ballade in F major, and the Scherzo in C sharp minor.
	www.chopin.pl /biografia/index_en.html (2909 words)

	Kate Chopin (1851-1904)
		Chopin's irony is too subtle for some students, who may see her female characters as cold, unloving, unfeeling women.
		Since Chopin wrote everything she produced during the last decade of the nineteenth century but was too advanced in her thinking to be accepted until the last quarter of the twentieth century, she offers a fine vehicle for exploring the intellectual and aesthetic tides of American thinking and American literature.
		Chopin seems to have believed that men and women alike have great difficulty reconciling their need to live as discrete individuals with their need to live in close relationship with a mate; these conflicting needs lie at the center of her work.
	www.georgetown.edu /faculty/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/chopin.html (783 words)

	Interpreting Chopin
		To gain insight into Chopin's unique musical language and stylistic practices it is essential for the interpreter to comprehend as far as possible his expressed intentions.
		To perceive Chopin as the archetypal Romantic languishing in a violet-scented mist of indecision about his scores is a misconception borne of spurious legend.
		Chopin was also strict about the observance of his precise phrase/slur markings and agogic signs, whilst pedalling 'remains a study for life', as he said, and requires constant consideration.
	info-poland.buffalo.edu /classroom/chopin/AL.html (1582 words)

	•• Biography of Frederic Chopin - PianoParadise••
		Chopin was Born in Zelazowa Wola in central Poland to a French father and Polish mother.
		Chopin was companion to novelist George Sand for ten years, but she left him when Chopin got tuberculosis, and he died soon after that.
		Chopin's technique was flawless, and he always caused great excitement with the evenness of his scales and the careful manipulation of his legato.
	www.pianoparadise.com /chopin.html (1874 words)

	Chopin
		Chopin was born on March 4, 1810, in Zelazowa Wola, near Warsaw, of a French father and a Polish mother, Chopin began to study the piano at the age of four and when eight years old played at a private concert in Warsaw.
		In 1838 Chopin began to suffer from tuberculosis and she nursed him in Majorca in the Balearic Islands and in France until continued differences between the two resulted in an estrangement in 1847.
		Chopin greatly influenced other composers, notably the Hungarian pianist and composer Franz Liszt, the German composer Richard Wagner, and the French composer Claude Debussy.
	www.mcs.csuhayward.edu /~malek/Musician/Chopin.html (1077 words)

	Lesson Tutor: Classical Composer Biography: Frederic Chopin
		The second of four children of French born Nicholas Chopin and his Polish wife Justina, Frederic was born in Warsaw, Poland on the 1st March, 1810, and became a child prodigy.
		Chopin gave his fist concert in Paris in February 1832, and from then on he was one of the most well known musical figures in France.
		Chopin became very ill while they were on the island and told of how he was visited by a series of local doctors, recalling that 'The first said I was dead, the second that I am dying; and the third that I am going to die - but I feel the same as always'.
	www.lessontutor.com /bf_chopin.html (1271 words)

	Chopin Early Editions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Chopin collection at the University of Chicago Library includes over 400 first and early printed editions of musical compositions by Frédéric Chopin, maintained in the Special Collections Research Center.
		Because Chopin's works were often published concurrently in several countries with variant texts, scholars can establish a sequence of publication by comparing a range of printings.
		Chopin Early Editions consist of digitized images of all scores in the University of Chicago Library's Chopin collection.
	chopin.lib.uchicago.edu (103 words)

	Chopin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Frederic Francois Chopin was born on February 22, 1810 in a small Polish village, not far from Warsaw.
		Chopin entered the Warsaw Conservatory a few years later and studied under a teacher named Josef Elsner.
		Chopin's skill and technique were obvious to his teacher and he encouraged Chopin's abilities.
	library.thinkquest.org /3609/Chopin.htm (225 words)

	Chopin's Grande Etudes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Chopin's first set of studies entitled Douze Grande Etudes, Op.10, was composed from 1828-1832, published in June 1833 and dedicated to Liszt.
		To the young Chopin of eighteen existing exercises and studies were not sufficient to conquer all of the technical and musical demands his compositions presented.
		Chopin's favoured dynamics are undoubtedly easier to ignore than achieve, especially on our powerfully resonant and 'fleshier' toned concert pianos, but his scores are not just a form of interpretative 'graph paper' on which a variety of designs can be plotted.
	www.chopin.org /~chopin/index.php?page=GrandEtudes (995 words)

	Donald Betts - Chopin
		A Chopin Mazurka, then, might be understood less as a dance piece than as a "song about dancing." And the Nocturnes, while profoundly varied in their tone, all remain true to the genre's provenance in night-time serenades.
		Breathing life into Chopin's musical characters are the textural transformations that mark their progress through his narratives.
		Like the mature works of Mozart in the 1780s, with their masterful synthesis of the Classical style, Chopin's piano works are truly "of their time." They stand as testaments to the era's quest for uninhibited subjectivity, its reverence for unbridled nature, and its passion for advancing musical technology.
	innig.net /music/betts-chopin (836 words)

	Chopin, Frederic Francois. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		He was a virtuoso interpreter of his own works, but his dislike of playing in public made him prefer teaching and composing to the concert stage.
		In 1836, Liszt introduced Chopin to Mme Dudevant, better known by her pen name George Sand, with whom he spent the winter of 1838–39 in Majorca; there, despite worsening pulmonary illness, he wrote his 24 preludes, which are counted among his finest compositions.
		Chopin established the piano as a solo instrument free from choral or orchestral influence.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ch/Chopin-F.html (407 words)

	Frédéric Chopin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The further development of Chopin's talent was supervised by Wilhelm Würfel (born 1791 in Bohemia).
		Chopin's grave on the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris.
		Chopin's bust is visible on the left-most pillar, and is also the location of his heart.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chopin (3673 words)

	Essentials of Music - Composers
		Chopin was born in Poland to a French émigré; and a Polish woman of the court.
		Finally, Chopin is remembered as one of the first nationalist composers, using the themes and dances of his native Poland as the sources for his pieces (especially the polonaises and mazurkas).
		In every way, Chopin was the quintessential "Romantic" composer, and Robert Schumann's initial reaction to his music ("Hats off, gentlemen, a genius") was borne out in his short but spectacular career.
	www.essentialsofmusic.com /composer/chopin.html (535 words)

	Fryderyk Chopin Biography - famous Fryderyk Chopin Classical collection and Fryderyk Chopin Music Reviews. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		For some ten years Chopin enjoyed a liaison with the writer George Sand, but broke with her during the last years of his life, brought to a close by the tuberculosis from which he had long suffered.
		Chopin wrote an Introduction and Polonaise for cello and piano for an early patron and towards the end of his life a Cello Sonata.
		Chopin created or developed a number of new forms of piano music, vehicles for his own poetic use of the instrument, with its exploration of nuance, its original harmonies and its discreet but often considerable technical demands.
	www.naxos.com /composerinfo/205.htm (1037 words)

	U B U W E B :: Henri Chopin
		Henri Chopin opens new ways by going beyond the separation between music and language, and he discovers the infinite chant, the fantastic yard of the mouth and the corporal noises with the aid of new electronic machines: a new conscience of space thanks to astro-physicians and biologists.
		An explorer of a terra incognita, of an infro- and ultra-poetry of pure energy that goes beyond language, Henri Chopin introduces the primary poetry, in the sense of Novalis, that is poetry as energy, the primary planetary poetry of the corporal space.
		Even though Chopin accepts the importance of the destruction of the word, at the some time he understands the limits of Dadaism's utilization of the letters of the alphabet, as there exist innumerable sonorous subtleties we use when we communicate which our alphabet cannot express.
	www.ubu.com /sound/chopin.html (2362 words)

	In the Hands » Recordings › Chopin
		I marvel at Chopin, and playing his music is humbling — but the wonderful thing about being a musician is that I get to make it my own all the same.
		It is often true of the composers dearest to me, Chopin first among them, that much of their finest work is their least virtuosic, and thus their most neglected.
		So Chopin’s choice of that title may seem a little understated, or even ironic: his études certainly do exercise one’s technique, but they are expressive, poetic, passionate, and anything but dry.
	innig.net /music/inthehands/category/recordings/chopin (2114 words)

	Kate Chopin: Domestic Goddess
		When Chopin was widowed at 32, she began writing to support herself and her six children.
		Chopin, and her memorable characters and stories, finally emerged from society's morally imposed ostracization during the resurgence of women's rights in the early 1970's.
		Chopin was and is an accomplished writer who deserves to be discussed not only from the standpoint of one woman's "awakening" but from the position of all women and indeed, all humans, in society, today and yesterday.
	www.womenwriters.net /domesticgoddess/chopin1.htm (580 words)

	Frédéric François Chopin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Chopin's music helped to expand the technical and expressive range of the piano.
		During this time he also established himself as a teacher, and many of his etudes were written as teaching pieces (though they certainly are artistic pieces in their own right).
		Included are a list of Chopin's pieces, reviews of recordings, images of the composer, and quotes by and about him.
	www.wwnorton.com /enjoy/shorter/composers/chopin.htm (565 words)

	Internet Public Library: Music History 102
		One of the best-known and best-loved composers of the Romantic period, Chopin was born in Poland and lived most of his life in Paris, which was at that time the musical hub of Europe.
		Chopin's entire musical output was devoted to his favorite instrument, the piano.
		Some of these dance pieces are among Chopin's best-known works, including the proud Polonaise in A-flat major and the haunting Waltz in C-sharp minor.
	www.ipl.org /div/mushist/rom/chopin.htm (340 words)

	PAL: Kate Chopin (1851-1904)
		She points out that although Chopin’s book was banned and harshly received in her time, readers are “re-reading or discovering for the first time with astonishment and wonder and downright pleasure, [what] ruined Kate Chopin’s career—and quite possibly contributed to the end of her life” (16).
		Stipe points out that it is understandable why Chopin’s readers had trouble with the book and she also points out that some modern readers might as well: “The Awakening is one of those books that starts heated debates in the classroom; the good news is that it’s now allowed in the classroom” (16).
		As Chopin allegedly suffered from poor health in the years preceding her death (17), one might conjecture both women were victims of something in their family medical history which doctors in their day did not know about or understand, such as female heart attacks or strokes.
	web.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap6/chopin.html (1476 words)

	Chopin piano books and DVD's by Alan Kogosowski
		This information is of vital importance because of the prevalence of RSI and Carpal Tunnel problems among pianists, as well as an ever-growing number of people because of the constant use of computers.
		Instead of detailing the chronological facts of his life, the reader is taken on a journey, one in which he travels in Chopin's shoes, seeing the world through his eyes — not just emotionally, socially and politically, but how the history of music and the whole culture of Europe appeared to him.
		It is a biography told 'from the inside out', so to speak — starting with the music and how it is played, and explaining everything through that (and is not that the real way to tell the life of an artist?).
	www.kogosowski.com /a/chopin_ebook.php (360 words)

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