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Frédéric Chopin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Frédéric François Chopin is remembered today as the composer of some of the most challenging and subjective music in the whole of the keyboard repertoire.
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Chopin's father was professor of French at Warsaw University, Poland. Chopin began piano lessons at the age of six, played at a musical evening aged seven (when he first published a work, a Polonaise in G minor), and in public at eight.
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Although a few major pianists, notably Glenn Gould, have dismissed his music as excessively ornamental and trivial, Frédéric Chopin has long been recognized as one of the most significant and individual composers of the Romantic age.
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Blessed with genius, success, and the love of Europe's most famous - and infamous - woman novelist, George Sand, Chopin's years of triumph ended with his expulsion from paradise: less than two decades after his conquest of Paris, the composer lay destitute and dying in the arms of Sand's estranged daughter, Solange.
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Chopin was born in the village of Żelazowa Wola, in the Duchy of Warsaw, to a French-expatriate father and Polish mother, and in his early life was regarded as a child-prodigy pianist. In November 1830, at the age of twenty, he went abroad; ... See all Chopin, Frédéric sheet music...
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dedicated to the Blessed Virgin committed by their parents at birth to become nuns. Chopin [Frédéric] François Chopin (1810–1849); Polish composer ... Book Summary Kate Chopin Biography Personal Background Education, Marriage, and Children Her Later Years Literary Writing About The Awakening Introduction...
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