Chopin: Preludes

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Brown, Maurice (1980). "Nocturne". In Stanley Sadie (ed.). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Vol.13. London: Macmillan Publishers. pp.258–259. ISBN 978-0-333-23111-1. Chopin's original publishers included Maurice Schlesinger and Camille Pleyel. [163] His works soon began to appear in popular 19th-century piano anthologies. [164] The first collected edition was by Breitkopf & Härtel (1878–1902). [165] Among modern scholarly editions of Chopin's works are the version under the name of Paderewski, published between 1937 and 1966, and the more recent Polish National Edition, edited by Jan Ekier and published between 1967 and 2010. The latter is recommended to contestants of the Chopin Competition. [166] Both editions contain detailed explanations and discussions regarding choices and sources. [167] [168] Chopin Early Editions, a collection of over 400 first and early printed editions of musical compositions by Frédéric Chopin published before 1881 Rowland, David, ed. (1998). The Cambridge Companion to the Piano. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-47986-8.

The "Polish character" of Chopin's work is unquestionable; not because he also wrote polonaises and mazurkas... which forms... were often stuffed with alien ideological and literary contents from the outside.... As an artist he looked for forms that stood apart from the literary-dramatic character of music which was a feature of Romanticism, as a Pole he reflected in his work the very essence of the tragic break in the history of the people and instinctively aspired to give the deepest expression of his nation... For he understood that he could invest his music with the most enduring and truly Polish qualities only by liberating art from the confines of dramatic and historical contents. This attitude toward the question of "national music"–an inspired solution to his art–was the reason why Chopin's works have come to be understood everywhere outside of Poland... Therein lies the strange riddle of his eternal vigour.

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Recalls No. 1 in its brevity and textural uniformity. Recalls t Chopin's life was covered in a 1999 BBC Omnibus documentary by András Schiff and Mischa Scorer, [250] in a 2010 documentary realised by Angelo Bozzolini and Roberto Prosseda for Italian television, [251] and in a BBC Four documentary Chopin–The Women Behind The Music (2010). [252] See also Kubba, Adam; Young, Madeleine (1998). "The Long Suffering of Frederic Chopin" (PDF). Chest. 113 (1): 210–216. doi: 10.1378/chest.113.1.210. PMID 9440592. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 August 2014 . Retrieved 28 March 2021. From September 1823 to 1826, Chopin attended the Warsaw Lyceum, where he received organ lessons from the Czech musician Wilhelm Würfel during his first year. In the autumn of 1826 he began a three-year course under the Silesian composer Józef Elsner at the Warsaw Conservatory, studying music theory, figured bass, and composition. [21] [n 5] Throughout this period he continued to compose and to give recitals in concerts and salons in Warsaw. He was engaged by the inventors of the "aeolomelodicon" (a combination of piano and mechanical organ), and on this instrument in May 1825 he performed his own improvisation and part of a concerto by Moscheles. The success of this concert led to an invitation to give a recital on a similar instrument (the "aeolopantaleon") before Tsar Alexander I, who was visiting Warsaw; the Tsar presented him with a diamond ring. At a subsequent aeolopantaleon concert on 10 June 1825, Chopin performed his Rondo Op. 1. This was the first of his works to be commercially published and earned him his first mention in the foreign press, when the Leipzig Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung praised his "wealth of musical ideas". [22] Zamoyski, Adam (2010). Chopin: Prince of the Romantics. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00-735182-4.

UK: / ˈ ʃ ɒ p æ̃, ˈ ʃ ɒ p æ n/, US: / ˈ ʃ oʊ p æ n, ʃ oʊ ˈ p æ n/, [1] French: [fʁedeʁik fʁɑ̃swa ʃɔpɛ̃]. Załuski, Iwo; Załuski, Pamela (May 1992). "Chopin in London". The Musical Times. 133 (1791): 226–230. doi: 10.2307/1193699. JSTOR 1193699. Harmonically dense with a low "plodding" bass line. This is the shortest of the preludes with just 12 bars. His father, Nicolas Chopin, was a Frenchman from Lorraine who had emigrated to Poland in 1787 at the age of sixteen. [10] [11] He married Justyna Krzyżanowska, a poor relative of the Skarbeks, one of the families for whom he worked. [12] Chopin was baptised in the same church where his parents had married, in Brochów. His eighteen-year-old godfather, for whom he was named, was Fryderyk Skarbek, a pupil of Nicolas Chopin. [7] Chopin was the second child of Nicholas and Justyna and their only son; he had an elder sister, Ludwika, and two younger sisters, Izabela and Emilia, whose death at the age of 14 was probably from tuberculosis. [13] [14] Nicolas Chopin was devoted to his adopted homeland, and insisted on the use of the Polish language in the household. [7] Chopin's father, Nicolas Chopin, by Mieroszewski, 1829 Halfway through the 1931 film Street Scene, the prelude is faintly played in one of the apartments, as a piano–violin duet.Sarah Miles plays the piece after her family home has been damaged by a German WWII bomb on a dust-covered but, evidently, still functional upright piano, in John Boorman's 1987 film Hope and Glory. Eigeldinger, Jean-Jacques (August 2001). "Chopin and Pleyel" (PDF). Early Music. 29 (3): 389–396. doi: 10.1093/earlyj/XXIX.3.389. JSTOR 3519183. Samson, Jim (2001). "Chopin, Fryderyk Franciszek". Grove Music Online. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.51099. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0. (subscription or UK public library membership required)

Weber, Moritz (13 January 2022). "AKT I / ACTO I / ACT I Männer / Hombres / Men Chopins Männer / Los hombres de Chopin / Chopin's Men". Itamar. Revista de investigación musical: Territorios para el arte (in German). ISSN 2386-8260.Ferruccio Busoni composed a set of variations, Variationen und Fuge in freier Form über Fr. Chopin's C-moll Präludium, on Prelude No. 20. This prelude was played at Chopin's funeral on organ. [13] Its melancholy melody is primarily given to the left hand. Frédéric François Chopin [n 1] (born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin; [n 2] [n 3] 1 March 1810–17 October 1849) 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". [5]

Temperley, Nicholas (1980). "Chopin, Fryderyk Franciszek [Frédéric François]". In Sadie, Stanley (ed.). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Vol.4. London: Macmillan Publishers. pp.298–307. ISBN 978-0-333-23111-1. Moran, Michael (31 January 2018). "1st International Chopin Competition on Period Instruments. 2–14 September 2018". Classical Music Festivals and Competitions in Poland and Germany – with occasional unrelated detours . Retrieved 24 June 2021. In Episode 2 of the Soap Opera "Dark Shadows", Elizabeth plays Prelude, Op. 28, No. 20. on the piano. Samson, Jim (1994). The Cambridge Companion to Chopin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-47752-9. Hedley, Arthur (2005). "Chopin, Frédéric (François)". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol.3 (15thed.). Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. pp.263–264.Chopin's music, his status as one of music's earliest celebrities, his indirect association with political insurrection, his high-profile love life, and his early death have made him a leading symbol of the Romantic era. His works remain popular, and he has been the subject of numerous films and biographies of varying historical fidelity. Among his many memorials is the Fryderyk Chopin Institute, which was created by the Parliament of Poland to research and promote his life and works. It hosts the International Chopin Piano Competition, a prestigious competition devoted entirely to his works. Wheeldon, Marianne (2009). Debussy's Late Style. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-35239-2. Milewski, Barbara (Autumn 1999). "Chopin's Mazurkas and the Myth of the Folk". 19th-Century Music. 23 (2): 113–135. doi: 10.2307/746919. JSTOR 746919. Nourrit's body was being escorted via Marseilles to his funeral in Paris, following his suicide in Naples. [95] Tosca Tango Orchestra's composition "Prelude", which is featured on their 1998 album "La Furia Del Tango", is based heavily on the Prelude No. 4.