Frédéric François Chopin
Born: 1st March 1810, Zelazowa Wola
Died: 17th October 1849, Paris
Nationality: Polish
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 composer of his era whose "poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation".
Chopin was born in Żelazowa Wola and grew up in Warsaw, which in 1815 became part of Congress Poland. A child prodigy, he completed his musical education and composed his early works in Warsaw before leaving Poland at age 20, less than a month before the outbreak of the November 1830 Uprising; at 21, he settled in Paris. Thereafter he gave only 30 public performances, preferring the more intimate atmosphere of the salon.
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Further Reading: Chopin
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Piano Sheet Music Essentials: Frédéric Chopin
14th Oct 2021
In our Piano Sheet Music Essentials series, we aim to offer recommendations of popular and well-known piano pieces by a selection of celebrated composers. This article focuses on the work of Frédéric Chopin, virtuosic piano composer of the Romantic era.
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Frédéric Chopin: Trois Nouvelles Études
16th Feb 2021
Introducing Edition Peters' new Urtext edition of Chopin’s Trois Nouvelles Études, the latest publication from The Complete Chopin: A New Critical Edition. Originally published in 1840 in the multi-composer Méthode des Méthodes, the Trois Nouvelles Études are Chopin’s least overtly vituosic studies, but they are arguably the most quietly sophisticated of all. Find out more here.
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Popular Works: Chopin
- Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23 (50)
- Cantabile in B Flat Major (Andantino) (80)
- Étude Op. 10 No. 3 in E major 'Tristesse' (163)
- Impromptu No. 4 in C sharp minor, Op. 66 'Fantaisie-Impromptu' (84)
- Largo in E flat major, BI 109 (82)
- Mazurka No. 43 in G minor, Op. 67 No. 2 (48)
- Mazurka No. 48 in F major, Op. 68 No. 3 (57)
- Mazurka No. 5 in B flat major, Op. 7 No. 1 (71)
- Mazurka No. 6 in A minor, Op. 7 No. 2 (48)
- Nocturne No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 9 No. 1 (50)
- Nocturne No. 11 in G minor, Op. 37 No. 1 (66)
- Nocturne No. 13 in C minor, Op. 48 No. 1 (47)
- Nocturne No. 15 in F minor, Op. 55 No. 1 (63)
- Nocturne No. 19 in E minor, Op. 72 No. 1 (56)
- Nocturne No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 9 No. 2 (165)
- Nocturne No. 20 in C sharp minor, Op. post. (81)
- Nocturne No. 5 in F sharp major, Op. 15 No. 2 (47)
- Nocturne No. 6 in G minor, Op. 15 No. 3 (55)
- Nocturne No. 8 in D flat major, Op. 27 No. 2 (58)
- Nocturne No. 9 in B major, Op. 32 No. 1 (49)
- Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35 'Marche funèbre': (Funeral March) (150)
- Polonaise No. 6 in A flat major, Op. 53 'Héroïque' (59)
- Polonaise No. 3 in A major, Op. 40 No. 1 'Military' (109)
- Prelude Op. 28 No. 15 in D flat major ‘Raindrop' (108)
- Prelude Op. 28 No. 20 in C minor (130)
- Prelude Op. 28 No. 4 in E minor (106)
- Prelude Op. 28 No. 6 in B minor (79)
- Prelude Op. 28 No. 7 in A major (155)
- Waltz No. 5 in A flat major, Op. 42 (69)
- Waltz No. 8 in A flat major, Op. 64 No. 3 (61)
- Waltz No. 1 in E flat major 'Grande Valse Brillante', Op. 18 (95)
- Waltz No. 10 in B minor, Op. 69 No. 2 (79)
- Waltz No. 12 in F minor, Op. 70 No. 2 (94)
- Waltz No. 14 in E minor, Op. post., KKIVa:15, B 56 (79)
- Waltz No. 19 in A minor, Op. post., KKIVb:11, B 150 (64)
- Waltz No. 3 in A minor 'Grande Valse Brillante', Op. 34 No. 2 (99)
- Waltz No. 6 in D flat major, Op. 64 No. 1 'Minute Waltz' (196)
- Waltz No. 7 in C sharp minor, Op. 64 No. 2 (120)
- Waltz No. 9 in A flat major, Op. 69 No. 1 'Farewell Waltz' (75)
- Waltzes (2), Op. 69 (49)
