Chopin's Influence On Modern Music

Music, throughout history, has been the marker of change in each era. Every period of music with its own distinct style and execution showcasing the change in the values of that time. This is the reason you can listen to multiple eras throughout our world’s history and hear a timeline of our pasts. Listening through the Baroque with composers such as Bach and Vivaldi, or the Classical period with proteges like Mozart or Beethoven. However the period this paper discusses is the Romantic era that brought us great composers like Frederick Chopin, yet another child prodigy who helped shape the next period of music and brought us into the modern music we know today. Chopin, a man who lived during a time of Russian revolutions, and the strife and

Despite his status as a composer he gave a mere 30 public performances, where he prefered the more intimate shows in the homes of friends (Samson, Jim. Chopin.). Although Chopin enjoyed this rich lifestyle he often lost his money due to his extravagant customs and would more often than not live with no money, spending much of his wealth entertaining friends and spent considerable amounts in fitting into the same expensive behaviors as his acquaintances. He often lived with friends eventually making back his lost wealth by selling his compositions and teaching local students at schools and

Although Chopin never actually got married, he was engaged to a woman named Maria Wodzinska from 1835- 1836 and had a continuous love affair while living in Warsaw to a young woman named Constantia Gladkowska. However, his most well known affair in 1836 when Chopin met the novelist Aurore Dudevant, better known as George Sand. The importance of this relationship resulted in Chopin’s most productive period of composing. During this time he produced such works as Fantaisie in F Minor (composed 1840-41), Barcarolle (1845-46), Polonaise-Fantaisie(1845-46), the ballades in A-flat major (1840-41) and F minor (1842), and the Sonata in B Minor (1844).
After Chopin's relationship with Aurore Dudevant ended due to a strained relationship with Dudevant’s daughter ("Frederic Chopin." Encyclopedia Britannica Online), his health began to decline rapidly, even more rapidly than it had in the past. After leaving Dudevant he began to be financially funded by an admirer named Jane Stirling, who arranged for him to travel to Scotland for a public concert. During this time he traveled a tour of the British isles This same tour happened to be his one of his last public