Frédéric Chopin

Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the early Romantic period

He was born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin on 1 March 1810 in Żelazowa Wola, west of Warsaw.^[1][2] He died on 17 October 1849.^[1]

Quick Facts

Birth name: Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin
Born: 1 March 1810
Birthplace: Żelazowa Wola, Duchy of Warsaw
Died: 17 October 1849
Place of death: Paris, France
Occupation: Composer, pianist

Facts from the source article.

Life and work

From 1823 to 1826 he attended the Warsaw Lyceum and then studied under Józef Elsner at the Warsaw Conservatory.^[3] In Paris he became acquainted with Hector Berlioz, Franz Liszt, and Friedrich Kalkbrenner, among others.^[4] He earned income from publishing works and teaching piano to affluent students.^[5] He died in 1849.^[1]

From 1816 until 1821, the Czech-born pianist Wojciech Żywny served as Chopin's first professional music instructor.^[6] Chopin gave public performances infrequently, favoring instead playing for small groups of friends in his own Paris apartment.^[7]

What the cited sources add

Chopin's biographer Alan Walker considers that expressions perceived as homosexual would not denote more than a passing phase.^[8]

References

Wikipedia, "Frédéric Chopin" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Rosen 1995, p. 284 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
Wikipedia, "Frédéric Chopin" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Temperley 1980, p. 298; Hedley Brown 1980, p. 292; Zamoyski 2010, p. 4–5; Cholmondeley 1998; Zamoyski 2010, p. 4–5; Cholmondeley 1998 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
Wikipedia, "Frédéric Chopin" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Samson 2001, p. §1 ¶1 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
Wikipedia, "Frédéric Chopin" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Zamoyski 2010, p. 4–5; Weber, "Chopins Männer", Schwabe (publisher), 2026, p. 143; Walker 2018, p. 289; Eigeldinger 2001, p. passim; Zamoyski 2010, p. 4–5; Walker 2018, p. 289 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
Wikipedia, "Frédéric Chopin" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Samson 2001, p. §1 ¶1; Hedley 2005, p. 263–264 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
Wikipedia, "Frédéric Chopin" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Samson 2001, p. §1 ¶1; Samson 1996, p. 8 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
Wikipedia, "Frédéric Chopin" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Hedley 2005, p. 263–264 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
Wikipedia, "Frédéric Chopin" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Walker 2018, p. 289; Kallberg 2006, p. 66; Pizà, "Overture: Love is a Pink Cake or Queering Chopin in Times of Homophobia", Itamar. Revista de investigación musical: Territorios para el arte, 13 January 2022; Weber, "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, 13 January 2022 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org

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