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Fredric Chopin
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- 1Timeline1810 - Born in Poland
1818 - First public appearance as soloist
1823 Studied at Warsaw Conservatory
1831 - Moved to Paris
1836 - First attacks of illness
1838 - Diagnosed with tuberculosis
1839 - Rave reviews from Schumann
1849 - Dies - 2Additional details- virtuosic pianist
- Little interest in contemporary music with the exception of the Italian bel canto operatic style which he transferred to piano
- idolized the music of Bach and Mozart
- Influenced by Polish dance music
- Worked best in shorter, freer forms
Did not compose program music
- almost exclusively composed for piano - 3Important works24 Piano preludes
"revolutionary" etudes
nocturnes
Fantasy in f minor
Piano sonata no 2
4 Ballades
2 Piano concerti
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- History of Western Music 2 (Chapter 2 Liszt, Schumann, and Chopin) Flashcards on Fredric Chopin, created by mtempleton1 on 20/07/2013.
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