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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. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leading musician of his era, one whose "poetic genius was based on a professional technique ...
Chopin's birthplace in Żelazowa Wola. The Birthplace of Frédéric Chopin is a dworek (lit. little manor-house – here referring to the eastern outbuilding of a non-extant mansion) surrounded by a large (over 17 acres) natural park at the banks of Utrata River in Żelazowa Wola near Sochaczew in Poland – presently a biographical museum of the composer, department of the Fryderyk Chopin ...
Valldemossa is a popular tourist destination in the Balearic Islands of Spain. One of the main attractions is the 13th century monastery, where the musician Frederic Chopin spent a winter (1838–39). The monastery was originally built as a royal palace; however, in 1399 it was converted into a monastery. [9]
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 ...
The Fryderyk Chopin Museum at the Fryderyk Chopin Society in Warsaw was established in the 1930s. [1] Already in 1935, the Fryderyk Chopin Institute, established a year earlier by 32 outstanding representatives of the world of culture and politics, headed by Karol Szymanowski , Józef Beck and August Zaleski , had begun amassing a collection.
Playtime, a Paris-based sales, production and equity investment company, has picked up “Chopin, a Sonata in Paris,” an ambitious biopic of famed composer and pianist Frédéric Chopin hailing ...
The Frédéric Chopin Monument in Warsaw (Polish: Pomnik Fryderyka Chopina w Warszawie) is a large bronze statue of Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849), designed by Wacław Szymanowski, that stands in the upper part of Warsaw's Royal Baths Park (also known as Łazienki Park), adjacent to Aleje Ujazdowskie (Ujazdów Avenue).
A curator at a museum in New York City has discovered a previously unknown waltz written by Frédéric Chopin, the first time that a new piece of work by the Polish composer has been found in ...