Love and commitment 2/05/12

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1 Frédéric Chopin Frédéric Chopin Born in Zelazowa, near Warsaw, on February 22, His father, Nicholas, was a French emigrated to Poland in 1787 he worked since 1802 as a tutor in the house of Count Skarbek in Zalazowa, and since 1810 as professor of French literature and language at the Institute of Warsaw and the School of Artillery. A child Haga prodigy, clic para he acts modificar with five el and estilo six de subtítulo del years patrón in the aristocratic salons of Warsaw. His first public appearance takes place eight years on the occasion of a benefit concert. From this time his first composition is printed: the Polonaise in G minor. He is consedered one of the great masters of Romantic Music

2 Childhood At eight years masterfully played the piano, improvising and composing with ease: he gave his first public concert on February 24, 1818 in the palace of the Radziwill family in Warsaw, where he played the Concerto in E minor of Jirovec Vojtech. It soon became known in the local city, regarded by all as a child prodigy and called the "little Chopin".

3 Love and commitment After passing through Prague, he returned to Warsaw, where he fell in love with a young student Gladkowska Konstancja singing at the Conservatory, he had met in 1828 at a concert. In this first youthful passion born several memorable works: the Waltz Op 70 n. 3 and the slow movement of his first Concerto for piano and orchestra in F minor.

4 Chopin as teacher Chopin chose the profession of teacher for a living on grounds of necessity: his compositions he meant negligible sums and offered very few concerts, and often the benefit of a charity. Regarding the teaching method, Chopin was not a trained teacher but a creator of music, education gave "no preconceived idea" and not follow any prearranged system; adapted his teaching to the student's skills

5 Mallorca Approaching the winter of 1838 his health had suffered and his doctor advised him to the healthy climate of the Balearic Islands to get better. Thus, the composer, Sand and her two children traveled to Barcelona, where he boarded the steamer The Spaniard, who would leave soon after in Mallorca. They spent the winter and wrote most of his twenty-four Preludes op. 28. On the island, confirmed the diagnosis of his illness: the young musician had contracted tuberculosis. The disease, classified as highly contagious, had no effect at all to the writer and her children, a fact that has made some experts reconsider the diagnosis. The possibility that Chopin then suffer some other degenerative disease of the airways uncataloged previously charged for some decades more strongly

6 Swan Song On 16th February 1848, told a packed-with tickets hard to get and sold long before, Chopin gives his last concert in Paris. A long concert that he was the swan song. in the interval had syncope in the lobby. Even when he gave some concerts in London, none would be as it was in communion with the audience.

7 Death The beginning of 1849 Chopin found too weak to teach. Was only able to visit his friend Mickiewicz, as sick as he, play a little piano and improvise some chords. As news of his condition worsened, much of Parisian society wanted to go visit. Already in full agony, was still strong enough to provide each visitor with a handshake and a kind word. He died at two am on October 17, 1849, at the age of 39.

8 Polonaises: a score of different pieces made independently or in cycles of two or three parts, between 1817 and 1846, taking in practice all his life as a composer. Mazurkas: 46 different, usually published in cycles of four and composed, as Polonaises, throughout his life, from Waltzes: 18 different published singly or in sets of two or three, plus the so-called Gran Vals (in E flat major, opus 18). Sonatas: three; in C minor, opus 14, in B flat minor, opus 35 (1839, including previously composed a funeral march) in B minor, Opus 58 His Music