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A Concert in NJPAC (New Jersey Performing Art
Center), in Newark 2006.
Concierto en NJPAC (Centro de Actuacion y
Artes de New Jersey), en Newark 2006.
Fryderyk Chopin (Polish: Fryderyk
[Franciszek] Chopin, sometimes Szopen;
French: Frédéric [François] Chopin;
surname pronunciation in English: IPA:
/ˈʃoʊpæn/, in French: IPA: [ʃɔpɛ̃];
March 1, 1810[1] -- October 17, 1849) was a
Polish[2][3] composer and virtuoso pianist of
the Romantic period. He is widely regarded as
the greatest Polish composer, and ranks as
one of music's greatest tone poets by reason
of superfine imagination and fastidious
craftsmanship.[4]
Chopin was born in the village of Żelazowa
Wola, in the Duchy of Warsaw, to a Polish
mother and French-expatriate father, and in
his early life was regarded as a
child-prodigy pianist. In November 1830, at
the age of 20, Chopin went abroad; following
the suppression of the Polish November
Uprising of 1830--31, he became one of many
expatriates of the Polish "Great Emigration."
In Paris, Chopin made a comfortable living as
a composer and piano teacher, while giving
few public performances. An ardent Polish
patriot,[5] in France he used the French
versions of his given names and eventually,
to avoid having to rely on Imperial Russian
documents, became a French citizen.[6][7][8]
After some ill-fated romantic involvements
with Polish ladies, from 1837 to 1847 he
conducted a turbulent relationship with the
French writer George Sand (Aurore Dudevant).
Always in frail health, he died in Paris, at
the age of 39, of chronic pulmonary
tuberculosis.[9]
Chopin's extant compositions were written
primarily for the piano as a solo instrument.
Though technically demanding, Chopin's style
emphasizes nuance and expressive depth rather
than virtuosity. Chopin invented musical
forms such as the ballade[10] and was
responsible for major innovations in forms
such as the piano sonata, waltz, nocturne,
étude, impromptu and prelude. His works are
mainstays of Romanticism in 19th-century
classical music. His mazureks and polonaises
are touchstones of Polish national classic
music.
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