Frédéric Chopin, a music composer of the Romantic Era, was born on March 1, 1810 as Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin in Żelazowa Wola, Poland, yet was stated to be born on February 22 on his baptismal certificate. His parents, Mikołaj (Nicolas) Chopin and Tekla Justyna Krzyżanowska, had 3 other children (Ludwika, Izabela, and Emilia), while growing up in a middle class family. His mother brought piano into his life at the age of 6 while his sister, Ludwika, gave him his first few piano lessons. At the age of 7, he composed his first composition and started to perform the next year. Realizing his skill in piano-playing, his parents hired Wojcheh Zywny, a professional pianist, from 1816-1822. Soon, Chopin could play better than him. His family moved to Warsaw in 1820, and in 1826 he went to Vienna to perform. From 1826-1830, he studied with Josef Elsner at the Warsaw Conservatory of Music. Chopin also played for audiences in Poland, Germany, Austria and Paris after his Vienna debut. He eventually decided to stay and live in Paris and changed his name to Frédéric François Chopin. While there, he met other composers, such as Franz Liszt, Vincenzo Bellini and Felix Mendelssohn. Liszt and himself became friends and played concerts together. However, later on they became contenders. Chopin fell ill with bronchial asthma returning from his trip to Dresden and Karlsbad in 1835. In 1836, he asked Maria Wodzinska (a 17 year old Polish girl) to marry him, and she accepted. In October the same year, Chopin met George Sand (also known as Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin). George Sand wanted Chopin for herself and ended up ruining his relationship with Maria Wodzinska. Chopin and Sand had a nine year relationship, but it eventually ended. Chopin’s composi...
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...pin’s pieces are the famous Minute Waltz in D Flat Major, Op. 64 No. 1 and Sonata No.2 in B flat Minor (Funeral March), Op. 35 - 3. Minute Waltz in D Flat Major is a fairly quick and light piece, while giving the listener excitement and joy. It is said that Chopin wrote this piece while he was watching a dog chase its tail in 1847 (2 years before he died). Sonata No.2 in B flat Minor, as suggested by the title, is sorrowful (note that it is also written in a minor key). In this piece, Chopin displays a whole new emotion, as its style is slower and quieter.
Frédéric Chopin’s music greatly conveyed his emotions through his style of music, which was never imagined before. The technique he uses he uses is identified by users today as unique. Though Chopin died at the age of 39, he inspired many artists after his time, and left generations to come his beautiful music.
Chopin’s Impromptu arouses "the very passions ... within [Edna’s] soul"(p.34). The harmony, fluidity, subtle rhythm and poetic beauty of the Romantic composer make Edna loose herself in the music that stirs her emotions. The art completes, for her, what nature cannot bring to a finish. The exquisite, looping, and often fiery melodies of the Impromptu make a cut in Edna’s mind through the conventional beliefs about people and society. Because she is not a musician, her listening is based on intuition, allowing for a direct apprehension of the music by the soul and leading to a confrontation with the reality itself — the reality of "solitude, of hope, of longing, ... of despair"(p.34). This is the beginning of Edna’s awakening, for such emotions, especially despair, are not an end but a beginning because they take away the excuses and guilts, those toward herself, from which she suffers. This revelation of previously hidden conflicts gives birth to dramatic emotions within Edna. It is so powerful that Edna wonders if she "shall ever be stirred again as...Reisz’s playing moved" her that night (p.38).
...ttish aristocracy. This exceptionally hectic life style and excessive strain on his strength from constant traveling and numerous performances, together with a climate deleterious to his lungs, further damaged his health. In November of 1848, despite frailty and a fever, Chopin gave his last concert, playing for Polish émigrés in the Guildhall in London. A few days later, he returned to Paris
Chopin was a piano instructor and composer of the Romantic Period. His body of work consists primarily of piano music. Born and classically trained in Poland, he left his homeland due to declining political conditions and moved to Paris, where he moved through the ranks and gained the respect of many other composers of the day. He had a famous relationship with the novelist George Sand, although the exact nature of the relationship is a bit unclear. He suffered from Tuberculosis and died at the young age of 39, not unlike so many other composers of this period.
When she was a teenager she kept a diary. A few years later she met her husband Oscar Chopin. They got married and they moved down to Louisiana from Saint Louis. They had six children together; five boys and one girl.
Dmitri Shostakovich, born on September 25, 1905, started taking piano lessons from his mother at the age of nine after he showed interest in a string quartet that practiced next door. He entered the Petrograd (formerly St. Petersburg, later Leningrad) Conservatory in 1919, where he studied the piano with Leonid Nikolayev until 1923 and composition until 1925 with Aleksandr Glazunov and Maksimilian Steinberg. He participated in the Chopin International Competition for Pianists in Warsaw in 1927 and received an honorable mention, after which he decided to limit his public performances to his own works to separate himself from the virtuoso pianists.
Kate Chopin was born on February 8, 1851, into a wealthy Catholic family in St. Louis Missouri. As a little girl, her father died a few years later in 1855 and was raised at home with her other sisters and mother, strong willed and prominent women who believed in self sufficiency. Soon, on June 9, 1870, Chopin married a man named Oscar. She graduated from St. Louis convent school. In the meanwhile, Kate was soon busy by the occupations of a being a mother and wife to the prestigious business man, Oscar whom she married. Throughout this escapade of life, Kate was forced to relocate often due to her husband’s change of business. Although, it was difficult to build upon these circumstances, Kate managed a small farm and plantation farm to keep things running. Even through these circumstances, Kate pulled through only to discover that all these locals would soon be her inspirations and se...
...at the age of sixteen. Nicolas also played the flute and the violin which later his wife, played the piano, and him will give Frederick lessons. In 1935 Frederick took a trip to Paris and never will he returned to Poland. In Paris, he received to the chance to showcase his talent and earning money while doing it. He gave piano lessons to wealthy student all over Europe. His first concert was held at la sale pleyel and became an elite composer in the eyes of many. He composed his most famous and best work during the 1830s before having health issues. On October 17th 1849 Frederick Chopin died with tuberculosis. La grande valse brillante was composed in 1934 during the romantic era in music. It has melodic aspect to it. It was originally composed for piano. Chopin also gave the title Grand valse brillante to the next three waltzes in the Op. 34 set, published in 1838.
Frederic Chopin, a Polish Nationalistic composer of the Romantic period, is a famous musician. Chopin’s compositions are individualistic to his talent and love of the piano. Chopin lived in Warsaw as a child and spent a great deal of his life living in Paris amongst other artists of the Romantic period. He was influenced by the people surrounding him and even more from his childhood in Poland. The Polonaise-Fantaisie in A-Flat major opus 61, is musically representative of Chopin and the Romantic period, nationalistic styles from Poland and unique innovations especially from Warsaw.
A woman wrote about Kate Chopin that “She was very important as one of the earliest examples of modernism in the United States or, if you wish, the cutting edge of modernism in American literature” (Chopin). This just justifies how well of a writer she was during this time period. She could mold her stories into a beautiful piece of work in the period of modernism. Kate Chopin was born in 1851 and she passes away in 1904 (Ewell). Modernism is expressed in Kate’s writing when she portrays feminine individuality through her characters. Modernism was a time where there was experimentation of expression and Kate Chopin took advantage of this freedom as a writer. Kate Chopin, through experiencing many personal hardships, was able to view the world around her in a unique and altered manner- extremely unique to her time period- however, these interesting and daring perspectives allowed her to be one of the most memorable of the female writers in the time period of modernism in the U.S. today.
In 1888, after suffering grief from the deaths of her father, mother and her husband, Chopin turned to creative writing as an outlet. She was not particularly well known as a writer during her life. She began writing seriously at the age of 39, when she would have already experienced many maturing life situations. She found her central focus rapidly, and wrote stories whose intriguing characters and settings often disguised the seriousness of their themes. Not greatly involved in the politics of her time, she was nonetheless influenced by such classic masters as Maupassan...
As with other romantic composers, Chopin made use of chromatic harmony to add richness, depth, and sensuosity to his works (Wright 232). Piano music of the romantic period was enhanced by advancements in the instrument, such as felt covered hammers and sustaining and soft pedals (Wright
Bibliography Huneker, James. A. Chopin: The Man and His Music. New York: Dover Publications, 1966. Print. The.
Schumann remarked, “Chopin’s works are guns buried in flowers” (Walker, 1967, p. 258). He was a revolutionary composer. His works are delicate yet harmonically powerful. Chopin expressed the idea of nationalism in his music by creating new forms of harmonies and using distinctive and colorful rhythmical features.
Chopin, fatherless at four, was certainly a product of her Creole heritage, and was strongly influenced by her mother and her maternal grandmother. Perhaps it is because she grew up in a female dominated environment that she was not a stereotypical product of her times and so could not conform to socially acceptable themes in her writing. Chopin even went so far as to assume the managerial role of her husband's business after he died in 1883. This behavior, in addition to her fascination with scientific principles, her upbringing, and her penchant for feminist characters would seem to indicate that individuality, freedom, and joy were as important to Chopin as they are to the characters in her stories. Yet it appears to be as difficult for critics to agree on Chopin's view of her own life as it is for them to accept the heroines of her stories. Per Seyersted believes that Chopin enjoyed living alone as an independent writer, but other critics have argued that Chopin was happily married and bore little resemblance to the characters in her stories (150-164).
She also uses imagery beautifully. The spring life, twittering birds, open window, delicious breath of rain, all these symbolize a new beginning and rebirth. Chopin also creates the storm and gloomy weather to show death and mourning. She acted as she cares about him as expectations of people around her. I believe that she never wanted him dead or wanted to kill him but as it happened she takes as an opportunity.