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  Fryderyk Chopin: Poet of the Piano
Fryderyk Chopin was born in Zelazowa Wola, a village six miles from Warsaw, Poland on February 22, 1810 as the son of a French father and a Polish mother.
Chopin also was a composer in the smaller forms, for only two piano concertos and three of his four sonatas are viable instrumental cycles, and his longer compositions in the free forms (polonaises, scherzos, ballades, fantasias, etc.) consist of a skillful linking together of ideas proper to the smaller forms.
Chopin's "modal" effects are not derived from deliberate and consistent use of the lowered second and seventh or sharpened fourth degree of the scale but from the ambiguity between the diatonic and altered forms of these scale degrees.
www.carolinaclassical.com /articles/chopin.html   (4193 words)

  
  Frédéric Chopin - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Chopin was born in Żelazowa Wola in central Poland near Sochaczew, in the region of Mazovia, which was part of the Duchy of Warsaw.
Chopin died, officially, of tuberculosis in 1849, although there is some speculation that he may have had another disease such as cystic fibrosis or emphysema due in part to autopsy findings (reported only by his sister) seemingly inconsistent with the initial diagnosis.
Chopin's music for the piano combined a unique rhythmic sense (particularly his use of rubato, chromatic inflections, and the style of Bach), as well as a piano technique which was of his own creation.
open-encyclopedia.com /Frederic_Chopin   (1799 words)

  
 Frédéric Chopin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chopin was born in Żelazowa Wola in central Poland near Sochaczew, in the region of Masovia, which was part of the Duchy of Warsaw.
Although Chopin is buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris, his heart is entombed in a pillar in the Church of the Holy Cross in Warsaw.
Chopin's music for the piano combined a unique rhythmic sense (particularly his use of rubato, chromatic inflections, and counterpoint), as well as a piano technique which was of his own creation.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frederic_Chopin   (2543 words)

  
 Frédéric Chopin -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
The further development of Chopin's talent was supervised by Wilhelm Würfel (born 1791 in (A historical area and former kingdom in the Czech Republic) Bohemia).
Chopin first visited (The capital and largest city of Austria; located on the Danube in northeastern Austria; was the home of Beethoven and Brahms and Haydn and Mozart and Schubert and Strauss) Vienna in early 1829, where he gave a piano performace and received his first favorable reviews.
Chopin's music for the piano combined a unique rhythmic sense (particularly his use of rubato, chromatic inflections, and the style of (German baroque organist and contrapuntist; composed mostly keyboard music; one of the greatest creators of Western music (1685-1750)) Johann Sebastian Bach), as well as a piano technique which was of his own creation.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fr/fr%e9d%e9ric_chopin.htm   (2250 words)

  
 Polish culture: Fryderyk Chopin
Fryderyk Chopin was born on 1st March (some historians quote the date of 22nd February) 1810 in Zelazowa Wola in central Poland.
Fryderyk's mother, Justyna nee Krzyzanowska, was a relative of Countess Ludwika Skarbkowa, owner of the Zelazowa Wola manor.
Chopin refuses to apply for passport at the Russian Embassy in Paris, choosing the status of a political exile.
www.culture.pl /en/culture/artykuly/os_chopin_fryderyk   (1140 words)

  
 Poland - The Masterpieces of Fryderyk Chopin: UNESCO-CI
Fryderyk Chopin, like Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Verdi, is considered to be a composer of lasting and universal value.
Even though Fryderyk Chopin was one of the fathers of Romanticism, his music had its individual character and his achievements outclassed those of his predecessors and followers.
Chopin’s musical output is of such great importance that UNESCO decided to declare the year 1999 Fryderyk Chopin International Year during which the whole world will be celebrating the 150th anniversary of Chopin’s birth.
portal.unesco.org /ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=4993&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html   (208 words)

  
 CSH > About Chopin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Nicolas Chopin, the composer’s father, was a tutor to the Count's young son, Fryderyk, after whom he later named his own son; Chopin’s mother, Justyna Krzyzanowska, ran the household of the Skarbek family.
In 1822 Chopin's parents placed their son under the guidance of Jozef Elsner, who was head of the Conservatory in Warsaw, with whom Fryderyk studied composition and theory.
Chopin's first love was Konstancja Gladkowska, the blue-eyed daughter of Commander of the Warsaw Castle, who studied singing at the same conservatory.
www.chopinsocietyofhouston.org /About-Chopin.aspx   (1946 words)

  
 Chopin - MIDI and more   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Chopin's first published musical work, a rondo, appeared when he was 15 years old.
When Chopin graduated from the lyceum, at 17, he was recognized as the leading pianist of Warsaw and a talented composer.
Chopin decided to go to Paris, which was the center of the romantic movement in the arts.
www.geocities.com /Vienna/4279   (354 words)

  
 Fryderyk Chopin Biography - famous Fryderyk Chopin Classical collection and Fryderyk Chopin Music Reviews.
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   (1108 words)

  
 Warsaw, Mercure Fryderyk Chopin ***
The Mercure Fryderyk Chopin Hotel is located on one of Warsaw's main streets, in the business and cultural centres.
The Mercure Fryderyk Chopin Hotel has 3 restaurants: Le Balzac and Le Stanislas serve delicious French and international cuisine, and the Mme Walewska cafe will tempt you with its scrumptious pastries, desserts, coffee, and tea.
It is near the pomnik Fryderyka Chopina (Chopin Monument).
www.visit.pl /hotel_warsaw_mercure_fryderyk_chopin   (992 words)

  
 Donald Betts - Chopin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
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 Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
When the twentyone-year-old Chopin arrived in Paris, he was momentarily dazed by the old-fashioned perfection of Kalkbrenner, who tried to convince him to enter upon a three-year course of study with him.
Indeed, Chopin was a new and freer pianist, free from the conventional discipline of stiff bodily action.
Chopin extended the scope of the left hand to such a degree that it constitutes a miracle of imagination.
www.chopinsociety.org /biogr_rf.htm   (1573 words)

  
 Chopin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Chopin departed for Vienna at age 20 to continue his studies, compose and share his talents with composers of his time.
Despite his premature death in 1849, Chopin's music touched the hearts of many throughout the years of his life and continues, even today, to be admired by musicians and music lovers alike.
Chopin is most noted for his unique approach to the piano, creating sounds unheard before his time.
www.polishamericancenter.org /Chopin.htm   (308 words)

  
 Frederic Chopin - InfoChopin - Events, Places, Organizations and Music
Preliminaries to the 15th Chopin Competition conincided with the opening of the painting exhibition "To Chopin” by the Polish artist Jerzy Duda-Gracz (1941 – 2004).
Frederick Chopin and the Kolberg Brothers - exhibition at the Ostrogski Castle in Warsaw
Chopin Poster Exhibition arranged by InfoChopin is open every day at Mercure Fryderyk Chopin Hotel in Warsaw.
www.infochopin.pl /en   (450 words)

  
 Fryderyk Chopin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Apart from the national feeling in the Polish dances, and possibly some narrative background to the ballades, he intended notably few references to literary, pictorial or autobiographical ideas.
Chopin is admired above all for his great originality in exploiting the piano.
While his own playing style was famous for its subtlety and restraint, its exquisite delicacy in contrast with the spectacular feats of pianism then reigning in Paris, most of his works have a simple texture of accompanied melody.
www.freewebs.com /minimusic/chopin.htm   (470 words)

  
 Fryderyk Chopin Information Page
Harold C. Schonberg, The glorious ones [although it serves as a good source of evidence, this book is certainly not recommended as a biographical, sociological or historical study of the individuals, characters and periods that it deals with - Ed.
The author asserts that Chopin "was able to distinguish an A441 from an A440".
Chopin in Paris: The Life and Time of the Romantic Composer - Tad Szulk
www.perfectpitchpeople.com /chopin.htm   (88 words)

  
 Home Page Chopin
Now, thanks to the Internet, we can reach many more people throughout the world, who are interested in Chopin and his music, and we hope that our service will be an exciting adventure of discovery as well as providing information on specific aspects of Chopin's life and works.
There are three major sections - (I) the life of Chopin, (II) the works of Chopin, and (III) the Chopin tradition, and these three areas cover in total some 30 subjects.
The majority of these subjects have a three tier structure, including a description, facts and documents; the remaining topics, which owing to their nature have a single or two tier structure, can be expanded by the user by following the on-screen instructions.
www.chopin.pl /spis_tresci/index_en.html   (363 words)

  
 BBC - Music / Profiles - Fryderyk Chopin
His distinctively expressive style is reflected in his many small scale works for that instrument and his two piano concertos.
Chopin’s piano music is uniquely expressive, but unusually for his time was never intended to be programmatic
Chopin's music is used for the famous ballet Les Sylphides, and features in many films, including Shine and The Truman Show
www.bbc.co.uk /music/profiles/chopin.shtml   (394 words)

  
 Meredith College News: Meredith College Celebrates Fryderyk Chopin
A Chopin recital featuring pianist Ann Schein will be held in Meredith College's Jones Auditorium on February 2 at 8 p.m.
Widely seen as the greatest of Polish composers, pianist Fryderyk Chopin's music belongs to the Romantic period of classical music.
Chopin's relationship with French Romantic writer George Sand began in the late 1830s and lasted for ten years.
www.meredith.edu /mcnews/chopin.htm   (368 words)

  
 Hotel Mercure Fryderyk Chopin Warszawa Warszawa - rezerwacja hoteli w Polsce
Hotel Mercure Fryderyk Chopin Warszawa Warszawa - rezerwacja hoteli w Polsce
Hotel Warszawa Mercure Fryderyk Chopin usytuowany jest w centrum miasta, w pobliżu Starego Rynku, stacji PKP, 9 km od lotniska Okęcie.
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www.hotele-online.pl /hotele/Warszawa/Mercure_Fryderyk_Chopin   (218 words)

  
 Frédéric Chopin - The Fryderyk Chopin Institute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
The Fryderyk Chopin Institute publishes a series of post-conference booklets, whose aim is to record and popularize the state of research on chosen Chopin issues touched upon during the annual International Chopinological Conferences, organised by the Institute.
The Fryderyk Chopin Institute participated in preparation of the 2nd International Chopinological Congress chronicle, a congress which took place in the Chopin’s year.
The Institute also supports the Foundation for the National Edition of the Works of Fryderyk Chopin, both financially and by popularizing the edition – among others during concerts organised by the Institute.
www.nifc.pl /nifc/project.php?m=3&type=3&id=64&top=1&cat=1   (204 words)

  
 Warsaw hotels - Hotel Mercure Fryderyk Chopin, Warszawa hotels discount prices, hotel Warsaw reservation
Warsaw hotels - Mercure Fryderyk Chopin hotel in Warsaw - hotel Warszawa Mercure Fryderyk Chopin - Warsaw reservation - Poland hotels
Modern hotel located in the centre within walking distance from the Old Town and the railway station.
Hotel Mercure Fryderyk Chopin is a good place to make a conference.
www.aboutpoland.com /hotels-warsaw-hotel-mercure-fryderyk-chopin.php   (207 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Chopin: Waltzes Nos. 1-14: Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
All of Chopin's music is, of course, exceptionally well written for the keyboard, but the sense of rhythmic lift, the inevitability--these are the hallmarks of a great artist.
It's terrible to think that when he made this stunning recording, Lipatti was already in pain and dying of leukemia; there's certainly no hint of it in his playing.
His recording of Chopin's waltzes is worlds apart from those of all other pianists.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000GCA8?v=glance   (1513 words)

  
 Fryderyk Chopin - Internet Information Centre (also Frédéric Chopin, Frederic Chopin)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Fryderyk Chopin i jego muzyka cieszą się niesłabnącym zainteresowaniem już z górą półtora wieku, zatem zebranie informacji aktualnych i historycznych o tym polu aktywności jest zadaniem obliczonym na wiele lat, angażującym licznych partnerów.
The webpage is split into two sections: Fryderyk Chopin Internet Centre and a section introducing Institute and its activities.
The main part of the webpage consists of information about: Chopin, his life (the most detailed calendary of life) and music (currently in preparation) institutions devoted to Chopin (organizations, societies etc.) biography notes about pianists (e.g.
www.nifc.pl /chopin.html   (277 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Music: Chopin - Etudes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Chopin's Etudes are a combination of virtuosity and lyricism.
In these works Chopin pushes piano technique to the limit and it is no wonder that Liszt adored these pieces (and it's said that he sight read them) and had them in his repertoire inside a day.
Perahia brings to the table a phenomenal technique and an astonishing level of understanding of the soul of Chopin.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00006JTD9   (1195 words)

  
 Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin
According to The New Penguin Dictionary of Music, Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin was a Polish composer and pianist of partly French descent.
Never married; met "George sand" (real name Aurore Dudevant) 1838, and lived with her till 1847; suffered from consumption, gave his last public concert in1848, and died in Paris.
Chopin, Frederic (1810 - 1849), biography and works by naxos.com.
www.grainger.de /music/composers/chopin.html   (160 words)

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