Life of Chopin

by Franz Liszt

Overview

Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leading musician of his era, one whose "poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation". Chopin was born in Żelazowa Wola in the Duchy of Warsaw and grew up in Warsaw, which in 1815 became part of Congress Poland. A child prodigy, he completed his musical education and composed his earlier works in Warsaw before leaving Poland at the age of 20, less than a month before the outbreak of the November 1830 Uprising. At 21, he settled in Paris. Thereafter - in the last 18 years of his life - he gave only 30 public performances, preferring the more intimate atmosphere of the salon. He supported himself by selling his compositions and by giving piano lessons, for which he was in high demand. Chopin formed a friendship with Franz Liszt, who wrote this biography and was admired by many of his other musical contemporaries, including Robert Schumann.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798211416703
Publisher:	Blurb
Publication date:	07/03/2024
Pages:	100
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.21(d)

About the Author

Composer, conductor, and teacher Franz Liszt (1811–86) was renowned throughout Europe for his skills as a concert pianist. The quintessential romantic, he created an extensive and diverse oeuvre that ranges from influential experiments in musical form to more conventional pieces as well as transcriptions of works by other composers.

Table of Contents

Dedication
Preface
Chapter I. Chopin--Style and Improvements--The Adagio of the Second Concerto--Funeral March--Psychological Character of the Compositions of Chopin
Chapter II. National Character of the Polonaise--Oginsky--Meyseder--Weber--Chopin--His Polonaise in F sharp Minor--Polonaise Fantaisie
Chapter III. Chopin's Mazourkas--Polish Ladies--Mazourka in Poland Tortured Motives--Early Life of Chopin--Zal
Chapter IV. Chopin's Mode of Playing--Concerts--The Elite--Fading Bouquets and Immortal Crowns--Hospitality--Heine--Meyerbeer--Adolphe Nourrit--Eugène Delacroix--Niemcevicz--Mickiewicz--George Sand
Chapter V. The Lives of Artists--Pure Fame of Chopin--Reserve--Classic and Romantic Art--Language of the Slavs--Chopin's Love of Home--Memories
Chapter VI. Birth and Early Life of Chopin--National Artists--Chopin Embodies in Himself the Poetic Sense of his Whole Nation--Opinion of Beethoven
Chapter VII. Madame Sand--Lélia--Visit to Majorca--Exclusive Ideals
Chapter VIII. Disappointment--Ill Health--Visit to England--Devotion of Friends--Last Sacraments--Delphine Potocka--Louise--M. Gutman--Death