frederic chopin

     

He made his official adult Warsaw debut in 1830 with his "Piano Concerto in F Minor"

Trivia about frederic chopin

  • At age 8 this Polish-French composer played a piano concerto by Ghirivetz in public
  • This Pole wrote a polonaise in G minor in 1817 at the age of 7
  • He was born in Zelazowa Wola, near Warsaw, in 1810, to a French father & a Polish mother
  • Jerome Robbins' ballet "In The Night" is danced to several of this Polish-born composer's famous nocturnes
  • Jerome Robbins' ballet "Dances At A Gathering" is danced to piano pieces by this Polish-French composer
  • He began to suffer from tuberculosis shortly after taking up with George Sand around 1837
  • "The Concert" is a humorous ballet danced to music by this Polish-French composer, including the "Minute Waltz"
  • His Polonaise in A-Flat Major, Opus 53, is called "Heroic"
  • A cat stepping over his piano keys may have inspired this Polish-French composer to pen his "Cat's Waltz"
  • "A Song to Remember" portrayed this frail consumptive as a crusader for Polish independence
  • It's been said that the 1831 Russian capture of Warsaw inspired him to write his C minor etude
  • After his breakup with novelist George Sand in 1847, he composed no more works
  • Composer played by Cornel Wilde in "A Song To Remember" & by Hugh Grant in "Impromptu"
  • The 19th century composer of the following, he basically wrote for only one instrument
  • The ballet "Les Sylphides" is danced to music by this Polish-French composer
  • His body may be at Pere Lachaise in Paris, but he left his heart at a church in Warsaw
  • At his last Paris concert, Feb. 16, 1848, he bravely tinkled out his Opus 65
  • The film seen here is a romanticized biography of this Romantic man
  • This 19th century composer's Opus 14 is classified as a Krakowiak
  • His "Songs To Remember" include about 40 mazurkas written in a 3/4 dance rhythm

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