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Frédéric François Chopin [n 1] (born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin; [n 2] 1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote primarily for solo piano.
The last opus number Chopin used was 65, that allocated to the Cello Sonata in G minor. He expressed a death-bed wish that all his unpublished manuscripts be destroyed. This included the early Piano Sonata No. 1; Chopin had assigned the Opus number 4 to it in 1828, and had even dedicated it to his teacher Elsner, but chose not to publish it. In ...
Chopin completed "Berceuse" in 1844, shortly before his Piano Sonata in B minor. It is a series of 16 variations on an ostinato ground bass. [2] [3] In an early sketch of the composition, the "variantes" were even assigned numbers. Chopin first began the work with the theme but wrote two measures of introduction later. [3]
The beginning of Chopin's Étude Op. 10 No. 3. Étude Op. 10, No. 3, in E major, is a study for solo piano composed by Frédéric Chopin in 1832. It was first published in 1833 in France, [1] Germany, [2] and England [3] as the third piece of his Études Op. 10. This is a slow cantabile study for polyphonic and expressive legato playing.
Also, Chopin wrote numerous song settings of Polish texts, and chamber pieces including a piano trio and a cello sonata. This listing uses the traditional opus numbers where they apply; other works are identified by numbers from the catalogues of Maurice J. E. Brown ( B ), Krystyna Kobylańska ( KK ), Józef Michał Chomiński ( A , C , D , E ...
Chopin at 25, by his fiancée Maria Wodzińska, 1835. The Études by Frédéric Chopin are three sets of études (solo studies) for the piano published during the 1830s. There are twenty-seven compositions overall, comprising two separate collections of twelve, numbered Op. 10 and Op. 25, and a set of three without opus number.
Chopin sits in bed, in the presence of (from left) Aleksander Jełowicki, Chopin's sister Ludwika, Marcelina Czartoryska, Wojciech Grzymała, Kwiatkowski. Frédéric Chopin 's disease and the reason for his premature death at age 39 were frequently debated for over 150 years.
Together with a number of rondos (Opp. 1, 5, 16 and 73), the Polonaise brillante and the Variations on "Der Schweizerbub", Chopin's compositions for piano and orchestra belong to a group of compositions in brilliant style, no longer confined by the tenets of the Classical period, which were written for the concert stage in the late 1820s to early 1830s.