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Frédéric Chopin
said
Give me a kiss, dearest lover. I'm certain that you still love me, and I fear you always, like some tyrant over me. I don't know why, but I fear you.
— Chopin to Tytus Woyciechowski, 5 October 1830
Frédéric Chopin
Polish composer and pianist (1810–1849)
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He turned the piano into an instrument of impossible intimacy—technically ferocious, emotionally microscopic—and then barely performed in public, preferring salons where 30 people could hear the nuance that made him the Romantic era's defining voice.
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Born in Żelazowa Wola in 1810, Chopin grew up in Warsaw as a child prodigy, finishing his musical education there before leaving Poland at 20, less than a month before the November 1830 Uprising broke out. At 21 he settled in Paris, where he gave only 30 public performances total, supporting himself instead by selling compositions and teaching piano to high-demand students. He befriended Franz Liszt, earned the admiration of Robert Schumann, and after a failed engagement to Maria Wodzińska maintained a turbulent relationship with the French writer George Sand—their brief, unhappy 1838–39 stay…
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Frédéric Chopin
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I'm glad that the secret is submerged in my heart, that in me is the end of what is for you the beginning.
— Chopin to Tytus Woyciechowski, 31 August 1830
Frédéric Chopin
said
No one other than I has read your letter. As always, even now, I carry your letters with me.
— Chopin to Tytus Woyciechowski, 27 March 1830
Frédéric Chopin
saidundated
Messieurs, I should like to be granted the favour of performing at one of your admirable concerts, and this I beg to ask of you.
— Letter of application to the Société des Concerts du Conservatoire.
Frédéric Chopin
saidundated
My piano has not yet arrived. How did you send it? By Marseilles or by Perpignan? I dream music but I cannot make any because here there are not any pianos . . .
— Letter to Camille Pleyel.
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- 4 ballades / Sonata no. 2 / Marche Funebre1985
- Concerto for Piano and Orchestra no. 1 in E minor, op. 111985
- Impromptus / Fantaisie Op. 49 / Barcarolle / Berceuse (Murray Perahia)1985
- Horowitz1985
- Klavierwerke1985
- 4 Scherzi / Polonaise-fantaisie, op. 611985
- Chopin Recital: Piano Sonata no. 2 op. 35 / Prélude / Scherzo / Nocturne / Études1985
- 19 Waltzes1984
- Piano Concertos nos. 1 & 21984
- Etudes Op. 10 & Op. 251984
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Historical31.2
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Source confidence75.0
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