Fredric Chopin

Fredric Chopin

• Born 1810, ​Zelazowa, Wola, Poland

• Died ​1849, Paris France

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​Fredric Chopin Early Life

• Frédéric began playing piano as a child.

• age eight, he was performing in concert with orchestras, and had begun to compose music for the piano.

• age fifteen his Rondo for Piano was published and he entered the Warsaw Conservatory of music.

• age nineteen he moved to Vienna, Austria, where he performed as a concert pianist, and where he had access to the many music publishers located there.

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​Moving through war time

• He returned to Warsaw a year where he performed the premieres of two of his piano concertos.

• War in Poland in 1831 forced Chopin move to France

• He lived there for the rest of his life

• stayed in touch with his native Poland through a community of Polish citizens who lived in Paris.

• Chopin gave his first concert in Paris in 1832, but his refined and precise style of playing was not immediately accepted by French audiences, who preferred more powerful and showy performers.​

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​Less performing and more composing and teaching

• Chopin began performing less and composing more.

• He also concentrated on teaching piano.

• He had many piano students

• was more successful as a performer when he played in small recital rooms instead of large concert halls.

• publishers competing for the right to publish his music for piano.

• involved with the high society of Paris and fell in love with a female author named Aurore Dudevant, whose novels were published under pen name of George Sand.

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​Composing on an island and home

• 1838-1839 Chopin was in Mediterranean island of Majorca,

• he completed his twenty-five preludes for piano.

• bad weather on the island, combined with some existing health problems, nearly caused his death.

• returned to Paris continued composing, primarily music for the piano throughout the rest of the 1830s and 1840s.

• Chopin wrote some of his finest music, including his Sonata in B-flat minor, between 1838 and 1841.

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His twenty-five preludes for piano​

His two piano concertos — for piano and orchestra​

His twenty-seven etudes for piano​

Sonata in B-fl at minor — for piano

​Later years of Chopin

• By the mid 1840s, Chopin was again suffering from health problems, and his long term relationship with Aurore Dudevant was ending.

• In 1848 he made a brief trip to England and Scotland

• gave his last concert in Paris.

• He died, probably of tuberculosis, in Paris in 1849.​

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​Fredric Chopin as a person

Although he spent most of his adult life in Paris, Frédéric Chopin is considered to be the greatest of all Polish composers. He enjoyed the company of wealthy, powerful, and famous people. He was a short, slim, sensitive, and physically frail man who, nevertheless, lived and dressed as a fashionable member of Paris society. Chopin’s compositions for piano are among the greatest ever written, and he is also recognized as one of the finest pianists of his time.​

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