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 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.
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Piano Sheet Music Essentials: Frédéric Chopin
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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Popular Works: Chopin
- Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23 (51)
- Cantabile in B Flat Major (Andantino) (81)
- Étude Op. 10 No. 3 in E major 'Tristesse' (159)
- Impromptu No. 4 in C sharp minor, Op. 66 'Fantaisie-Impromptu' (83)
- Largo in E flat major, BI 109 (84)
- Mazurka No. 43 in G minor, Op. 67 No. 2 (47)
- Mazurka No. 48 in F major, Op. 68 No. 3 (57)
- Mazurka No. 5 in B flat major, Op. 7 No. 1 (70)
- Nocturne No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 9 No. 1 (51)
- Nocturne No. 11 in G minor, Op. 37 No. 1 (65)
- Nocturne No. 13 in C minor, Op. 48 No. 1 (47)
- Nocturne No. 15 in F minor, Op. 55 No. 1 (65)
- Nocturne No. 19 in E minor, Op. 72 No. 1 (55)
- Nocturne No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 9 No. 2 (162)
- Nocturne No. 20 in C sharp minor, Op. post. (57)
- Nocturne No. 5 in F sharp major, Op. 15 No. 2 (47)
- Nocturne No. 6 in G minor, Op. 15 No. 3 (56)
- Nocturne No. 8 in D flat major, Op. 27 No. 2 (57)
- Nocturne No. 9 in B major, Op. 32 No. 1 (50)
- Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35 'Marche funèbre': (Funeral March) (144)
- Polonaise No. 6 in A flat major, Op. 53 'Héroïque' (59)
- Polonaise No. 1 in C sharp minor, Op. 26 No. 1 (45)
- Polonaise No. 3 in A major, Op. 40 No. 1 'Military' (106)
- Prelude Op. 28 No. 15 in D flat major ‘Raindrop' (100)
- Prelude Op. 28 No. 20 in C minor (130)
- Prelude Op. 28 No. 4 in E minor (105)
- Prelude Op. 28 No. 6 in B minor (80)
- Prelude Op. 28 No. 7 in A major (156)
- Preludes (24), Op. 28 (46)
- Waltz No. 5 in A flat major, Op. 42 (70)
- Waltz No. 8 in A flat major, Op. 64 No. 3 (63)
- Waltz No. 1 in E flat major 'Grande Valse Brillante', Op. 18 (97)
- Waltz No. 10 in B minor, Op. 69 No. 2 (78)
- Waltz No. 12 in F minor, Op. 70 No. 2 (94)
- Waltz No. 14 in E minor, Op. post., KKIVa:15, B 56 (53)
- Waltz No. 19 in A minor, Op. post., KKIVb:11, B 150 (63)
- Waltz No. 3 in A minor 'Grande Valse Brillante', Op. 34 No. 2 (101)
- Waltz No. 6 in D flat major, Op. 64 No. 1 'Minute Waltz' (199)
- Waltz No. 7 in C sharp minor, Op. 64 No. 2 (123)
- Waltz No. 9 in A flat major, Op. 69 No. 1 'Farewell Waltz' (75)
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