Frédéric Chopin
Frédéric François Chopin 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 composer of his era whose "poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation".
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Żelazowa Wola
- Educated at
- Chopin University of MusicUniversity of Warsaw
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Trending topics shown first"One needs only to study a certain positioning of the hand in relation to the keys to obtain with ease the most beautiful sounds, to know how to play long notes and short notes and to certain unlimited…"
"The Earth is suffocating... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive."
"Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano!"
"How strange! This bed on which I shall lie has been slept on by more than one dying man, but today it does not repel me! Who knows what corpses have lain on it and for how long? But is a corpse any wo…"
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Timeline
1810
Born
Birth1849
Died
Death
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