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Frédéric Chopin
Edit- Lifespan:
- February 22, 1810 - October 17, 1849, he died aged 39 and was Polish.
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- Birthname: Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin. Alternative names: Frédéric François Chopin.
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- An Artist with 383 releases, and credited 43 times on others' music. 93 collaborations.
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EditFrédéric François Chopin, in Polish Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin (the surname is pronounced in French, and usually in English; 1 March 1810 - 17 October 1849), was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of French-Polish parentage. He was one of the great masters of Romantic music.
Chopin was born in the Napoleonic Duchy of Warsaw to a French-expatriate father and Polish mother, and was a child-prodigy pianist and composer. Following the Russian suppression of the Polish November 1830 Uprising, Chopin settled in France as part of the Polish Great Emigration. In Paris he supported himself as a composer and piano teacher, giving few public performances. After romantic involvements with several Polish women, from 1837 to 1847 he carried on a relationship with the French novelist Amantine Aurore Lucie Dupin, baronne Dudevant, better known by her pseudonym, George Sand. For the greater part of his life Chopin suffered from poor health; he died in Paris, aged 39, of pulmonary tuberculosis.
The great majority of Chopin's compositions were written for the piano as solo instrument; all his extant works feature the piano in one way or another. They are technically demanding but emphasize nuance and expressive depth. Chopin invented musical forms such as the instrumental ballade and made major innovations to the piano sonata, mazurka, waltz, nocturne, polonaise, étude, impromptu and prélude.
The Biography appearing in this section is attributed to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frédéric_Chopin. Portions of this Biography may be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, version 3.0 or any later version, available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/. Additional terms may apply. See Wikipedia Terms of Use for details.
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