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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.
Melodic fragment (introduced in measures 7-8), Chopin's Fantaisie-Impromptu Cadenza (measure 188), Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 14, third movement. Ernst Oster observes that the Fantaisie-Impromptu draws many of its harmonic and tonal elements from Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, which is also in C ♯ minor, and from the third movement in particular.
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 ...
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 He expressed a death-bed wish that all his unpublished manuscripts be destroyed.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 ...
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.
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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.
Book-length biographies concentrating on a limited number of episodes in Chopin's life include: Szulc, Tad (1998). Chopin in Paris: The Life and Times of the Romantic Composer. New York: Scribner. ISBN 978-0-684-82458-1. [7] Eisler, Benita (2007) [2003]. Chopin's Funeral. Knopf Doubleday. ISBN 9780307425256. [8]