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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 He expressed a death-bed wish that all his unpublished manuscripts be destroyed.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 ...
Nicknames have been given to most of Chopin's Études over time, but Chopin himself never used nicknames for these pieces, nor did he name them. Op. 10, 12 Études: Étude in C major (1830) Étude in A minor (1830) Étude in E major (1832) Étude in C ♯ minor (1832) Étude in G ♭ major (1830) Étude in E ♭ minor (1830) Étude in C major ...
Bundled primary documents, such as letters and diaries, pertaining to Chopin's life include: [9] [10] Chopin's Letters (1931). Based on Henryk Opieński's collection; Translations by Ethel Voynich; Selected Correspondence of Fryderyk Chopin (1962). Based on Bronisław Edward Sydow's collection; Translations by Arthur Hedley; Chopin's Polish ...
While it is known that Chopin's mazurkas are connected to the traditional dance, throughout the years there has been much scholarly debate as to how exactly they are connected. The main subject of this debate is whether Chopin had an actual direct connection to Polish folk music, or whether he heard Polish national music in urban areas and was ...
Most of Frédéric Chopin's polonaises were written for solo piano. He wrote his first polonaise in 1817, when he was 7; his last was the Polonaise-Fantaisie of 1846, three years before his death. Among the best known polonaises are the "Military" Polonaise in A , Op. 40, No. 1, and the "Heroic" Polonaise in A ♭ , Op. 53.
One of the better known nocturnes, this piece has a rhythmic freedom that came to characterize Chopin's later work. The left hand has an unbroken sequence of eighth notes in simple arpeggios throughout the entire piece, while the right hand moves with freedom, occasionally in patterns of seven, eleven, twenty, and twenty-two in the form of polyrhythms.
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.