Biography (Chopin)

Frédéric Chopin (1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849) was a composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period. He is widely regarded as the greatest Polish composer, and ranks as one of music's greatest tone poets.

Chopin was born in the village of Żelazowa Wola, in the Duchy of Warsaw, to a Polish mother and French-expatriate father, and in his early life was regarded as a child-prodigy pianist. In November 1830, at the age of twenty, he went abroad; following the suppression of the Polish November Uprising of 1830–1831, he became one of many expatriates of the Polish "Great Emigration."

In Paris, Chopin made a comfortable living as a composer and piano teacher, while giving few public performances. Though an ardent Polish patriot, in France he used the French versions of his names and eventually, to avoid having to rely on Imperial Russian documents, became a French citizen. After some ill-fated romantic involvements with Polish women, from 1837 to 1847 he had a turbulent...

Album Records (Chopin)

Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23 Chopin: Nocturne No. 20 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. posth. Nocturne en mi bémol majeur opus 9 n°2: Ballade en Sol Mineur No.1 Nocturne No. 2 in E-flat major, Op. 9 No. 2 Nocturne No.1 in B flat minor, Op.9 No.1 Minute Waltz Nocturne No.2 in E flat, Op.9 No.2 Nocturne No. 19 in E Minor, op. 72, no. 1 Nocturne, Op. posth. in C-Sharp Minor: Lento Prelude in E Minor, Op. 28, No. 4 Nocturne in C# minor Nocturne No. 2 in E flat Major, Op. 9,2 Ballade No. 4 in f minor, Op. 52 Ballade No. 2 in F major, Op. 38 Nocturnes, Op. 9: No. 2 in E-Flat Major. Andante Funeral March Prélude in E Minor, Op. 28, No. 4 Nocturne in E-flat major, Op. 9, No.2 Waltz in C-sharp minor, Op. 64 No. 2 Berceuse, Op 57

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