Portrait of Chopin by Eug?ne Delacroix (1838) In this bibliography, I will discuss Chopin, his life span and nationality, and the historical period of his performance. I will address his types of major works and titles and discuss his major contributions to music. Additionally, I will touch upon his early works, his dedications and his teachings. Fr?d?ric Fran?ois Chopin, (1810-1849), Polish composer and pianist of the romantic era, regarded by some as the greatest of all composers of music for the piano. Born Fryderyk Chopin in Zelazowa Wola, near Warsaw. His father was French and his mother was Polish. He preferred to use the French name Fr?d?ric. He began to study the piano at the age of four, and he played at a private concert in Warsaw when he was eight years old. Later he studied harmony and counterpoint at the Warsaw Conservatory. Chopin was also advanced as a composer: His first published composition is dated 1817. He gave his first concerts as a piano virtuoso in 1829 in Vienna, where he lived for the next two years.
After 1831, except for brief absences, Chopin lived in Paris, where he became noted as a pianist, teacher, and composer. He formed an intimate relationship in 1837 with French writer George Sand. In 1838 Chopin began to suffer from tuberculosis and Sand nursed him in Mallorca, in the Balearic Islands, and in France until continued differences between the two resulted in an estrangement in 1847. Thereafter his musical activity was limited to giving several concerts in 1848 in France, Scotland, and England. The 1830s have been called “the decade of the piano” because the piano and the music written for it played a dominant role in European musical culture. As the Industrial Revolution hit, piano manufacturers developed methods for building many more pianos at lower cost. Pianos ceased to be the exclusively for the wealthy. Middle class could also own them and make music at home. Thousands of amateur pianists began to take lessons, buy printed music, and attend concerts. Chopin’s piano playing was highly regarded by other virtuosos and was in great demand from professional and amateur musicians alike. Unlike the other composer-pianists of his time, Chopin rarely gave public concerts; his performing was generally confined to the homes of wealthy aristocrats and businessmen.
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Chopin One of the most profoundly original composers in history, Frederic Chopin was not at all a traditional "Romantic" musician; in fact, most of his music defines a separate category all its own. Born in Zelazowa Wol a, a small city near Warsaw, Poland on February 22, 1810, Chopin first studied the piano at the Warsaw School of Music, and was quite proficient on that instrument by his early ...
Public awareness of Chopin’s music came about primarily through its publication, and the process of putting his works into print. However, this was not simply a matter of converting his manuscripts into printed form. Chopin felt that many performance details, such as phrasing, dynamics, pedaling, and articulation, were not fixed elements of his music, even though they have a substantial impact on the way it sounds. He was inconsistent about including performing instructions in his manuscripts, and when publishers asked him to supply them at the proof stage, he often changed his mind several times. Nearly all of Chopin’s compositions were for piano. Although a refugee, he was deeply loyal to his war-torn homeland, his mazurkas reflect the rhythms and melodic traits of Polish folk music, and his polonaises contain a heroic spirit. Italian opera composer Vincenzo Bellini also influenced his melodies. His ballads, scherzos, and ?tudes exemplify his large-scale works for solo piano. His music, which is romantic and lyrical in nature, is characterized by great originality of melody, refined and often adventurous harmony, subtle rhythm, and poetic beauty. Chopin greatly influenced other composers, such as the Hungarian pianist and composer Franz Liszt, German composer Richard Wagner, and French composer Claude Debussy.
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Chopin’s many published compositions include 55 mazurkas, 27 ?tudes, 24 preludes, 19 nocturnes, 13 polonaises, and 3 piano sonatas. Among his other works are the Concertos in E minor and in F minor, both for piano and orchestra, the cello sonata, and 17 songs. Among Chopin’s most individual works are the Pr?ludes. Intended to serve as beginnings to an intimate recital, these pieces range from tender melancholy to the dramatic of the stormy Prelude in D minor. Many of Chopin’s most beautiful compositions come from the series of short, reflective pieces he called Nocturnes. As can be heard in the Nocturne in F-sharp, these works are usually gentle and dreamlike with a flowing, rocking bass, and aptly demonstrate Chopin’s preconception for sweet, song-like melodies, very much in the style of Italian bel canto opera of the period. The publication of Chopin’s early works. Chopin first achieved fame as a child prodigy in his native Poland, and a few of his works were published in Warsaw as early as 1817, when he was only eight years old. He continued to compose throughout his student years, but only a handful of these works were printed. Polish editions were not widely distributed and are now quite rare.
When Chopin attained prominence in Paris during the early 1830s, he allowed a few of his early works (the Rondos, opp. 1 and 5) to be reissued by French, German, and English publishers, but he made no further effort to revive the other music he had composed before 1828. These works stayed in manuscript until after his death and have been trickling into print from widely scattered sources ever since. Like other young composers, Chopin dedicated his early Parisian publications to well-known composer-pianists or well-to-do patrons of the arts who were in a position to provide recommendations, commissions, or employment opportunities. More generally, by associating himself with famous musicians and wealthy lovers of music, Chopin enhanced public estimation of his own music. Publishers recognized the value of these associations for their sales and prominently displayed the names of dedicatees on title pages. After Chopin became famous, however, most of his dedications were to personal friends. Many of these were still members of high society, since that was the circle in which Chopin moved, but there is little to suggest that he felt the need to court favor. In many cases, he seems to have been very casual about selecting dedicatees, often making up his mind or changing it at the last minute. Chopin dedicated a significant number of works to his students, ranging from aristocratic ladies to professional pianists like Friedericke M?ller. It is curious that Chopin did not dedicate published works to either of the two known loves of his life, Maria Wodzinska (1819-1896) and George Sand (1804-1876).
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Until the nineteenth century, music was generally regarded as an international language. Folk music had always been in place and linked directly with particular regions. On a larger scale though, European music was a device for expression through the application of Italian techniques and styles. In other words, its technical vocabulary was Italian, and from the time of the early baroque, European ...
Chopin had known the Wodzinski family since childhood and fell in love with Maria in 1835, when she was sixteen. He proposed, but her family did not approve, probably because of his chronic ill health. He inscribed a manuscript of the Waltz, op. 69, no. 1 to Maria during their courtship, but the work was not published during his lifetime. In later years he did not hesitate to dedicate copies of it to other ladies. Chopin lived with novelist George Sand for nine years (1838-1847) and their relationship was common knowledge among members of Paris society, but Chopin may have felt that a public dedication stretched the bounds of propriety. Chopin took his piano teaching very seriously. In the early 1840s, he even sketched the beginnings of a method for playing the instrument, but this project was never completed. Chopin taught music written by a variety of composers, of whom Johann Sebastian Bach was particularly prominent. His students cherished the opportunity to study the master’s own works with him. During lessons, he and his students frequently wrote instructions concerning performance in the students’ printed copies of his music. Most of these were fingerings, with occasional details of dynamics, articulation, and phrasing.
The markings were primarily educational and tailored to the needs of individual students. From time to time, however, Chopin also altered pitches, redistributed chords, and even completely rewrote ornamental passagework, changes that are not found in any other early sources. Controversy continues over whether these annotations reflect Chopin’s final revisions of his music or spur-of-the-moment changes that were never intended to have any permanent validity. Chopin was certainly considered one of the great pianists/composers of our time. He has contributed much to the music world. He was nominated the “Composer of the Year” by the Morrison Foundation for Music Research, Inc. in 1999, the 50th anniversary of his death.
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Today’s students inhabit a visual, networked culture. They connect and communicate with their peers and the public through digital media. Many assume that these “digital natives” are fully literate with regard to media; however, we believe that students need guidance, support and inspiration to realize their full academic potential with digital media. The term ‘digital media’ is used to broadly ...
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