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Frédéric_Chopin

The two became friends, and for many years lived in close proximity in Paris, Chopin at 38 Rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin, and Liszt at the Hôtel de France on the Rue Lafitte, a few blocks away. They performed together on seven occasions between 1833 and 1841. The first, on 2 April 1833, was at a benefit concert organized by Hector Berlioz for his bankrupt Shakespearean actress wife Harriet Smithson, during which they played George Onslow's Sonata in F minor for piano duet. Later joint appearances included a benefit concert for the Benevolent Association of Polish Ladies in Paris. Their last appearance together in public was for a charity concert conducted for the Beethoven Memorial in Bonn, held at the Salle Pleyel and the Paris Conservatory on 25 and 26 April 1841.

Question: What address did Frédéric live at during his stay in Paris?
Answer: 38 Rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin

Question: How far down the road did Liszt live from Frédéric during this time?
Answer: a few blocks

Question: How many times did Frédéric and Liszt collaborate in performances during the years of 1833 to 1841?
Answer: seven

Question: For whose benefit was the first of these concerts performed for on 2 April 1833?
Answer: Harriet Smithson

Question: At which two establishments was the last of these performances conducted at on 25 and 26 April 1841?
Answer: Salle Pleyel and the Paris Conservatory

Question: When was the first time Liszt and Chopin performed together?
Answer: 2 April 1833

Question: What was the charity that Liszt and Chopin last performed for?
Answer: the Beethoven Memorial in Bonn

Question: Where did Liszt and Chopin last perform together?
Answer: Salle Pleyel and the Paris Conservatory

Question: When Liszt lived close to Chopin, where did he call home?
Answer: the Hôtel de France on the Rue Lafitte

Question: How many times did Chopin and Liszy perform together in public?
Answer: seven

Question: Who did the first concert of Chopin and Liszt benefit?
Answer: Harriet Smithson
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Although the two displayed great respect and admiration for each other, their friendship was uneasy and had some qualities of a love-hate relationship. Harold C. Schonberg believes that Chopin displayed a "tinge of jealousy and spite" towards Liszt's virtuosity on the piano, and others have also argued that he had become enchanted with Liszt's theatricality, showmanship and success. Liszt was the dedicatee of Chopin's Op. 10 Études, and his performance of them prompted the composer to write to Hiller, "I should like to rob him of the way he plays my studies." However, Chopin expressed annoyance in 1843 when Liszt performed one of his nocturnes with the addition of numerous intricate embellishments, at which Chopin remarked that he should play the music as written or not play it at all, forcing an apology. Most biographers of Chopin state that after this the two had little to do with each other, although in his letters dated as late as 1848 he still referred to him as "my friend Liszt". Some commentators point to events in the two men's romantic lives which led to a rift between them; there are claims that Liszt had displayed jealousy of his mistress Marie d'Agoult's obsession with Chopin, while others believe that Chopin had become concerned about Liszt's growing relationship with George Sand.

Question: What term describes the qualities of the relationship between Frédéric and Liszt?
Answer: love-hate relationship

Question: What three qualities of Liszt are stated to have captivated Frédéric?
Answer: theatricality, showmanship and success

Question: What did Frédéric receive from Liszt when the latter performed a nocturne with certain embellishments added?
Answer: an apology

Question: What did Frédéric introduce Liszt as in when referring to him in his letters up to 1848?
Answer: my friend Liszt

Question: What piece did Chopin dedicate to Liszt?
Answer: Op. 10 Études

Question: What was the name of Liszt's mistress?
Answer: Marie d'Agoult

Question: Who did Chopin dedicate the Op. 10 Études to?
Answer: Liszt

Question: Who apologized to Chopin for adding embellishments to a musical piece he perforemed that was written by Chopin?
Answer: Liszt

Question: What was the name of Liszt's mistress?
Answer: Marie d'Agoult

Question: Who did Chopin write to displaying his desire to take away a performers ability to play his music?
Answer: Hiller

Question: What was the name of the man who biogrpahers think Chopin was concerned about Liszt's growing relationship with?
Answer: George Sand
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In 1836, at a party hosted by Marie d'Agoult, Chopin met the French author George Sand (born [Amantine] Aurore [Lucile] Dupin). Short (under five feet, or 152 cm), dark, big-eyed and a cigar smoker, she initially repelled Chopin, who remarked, "What an unattractive person la Sand is. Is she really a woman?" However, by early 1837 Maria Wodzińska's mother had made it clear to Chopin in correspondence that a marriage with her daughter was unlikely to proceed. It is thought that she was influenced by his poor health and possibly also by rumours about his associations with women such as d'Agoult and Sand. Chopin finally placed the letters from Maria and her mother in a package on which he wrote, in Polish, "My tragedy". Sand, in a letter to Grzymała of June 1838, admitted strong feelings for the composer and debated whether to abandon a current affair in order to begin a relationship with Chopin; she asked Grzymała to assess Chopin's relationship with Maria Wodzińska, without realising that the affair, at least from Maria's side, was over.

Question: Who was the host of the gathering where Frédéric was introduced to George Sand?
Answer: Marie d'Agoult

Question: What did Frédéric label the place in which he placed Maria and her mother's letters about the unlikely marriage?
Answer: My tragedy

Question: Who did George Sand write to when admitting having a strong affection for Frédéric?
Answer: Grzymała

Question: What is the name of the author Chopin met at a gathering put on by Marie d'Agoult?
Answer: George Sand

Question: What was a possible reason for Chopin's failed engagement to Maria Wodzińska?
Answer: his poor health

Question: What did Chopin write on the box of letters from Maria and her mother?
Answer: My tragedy

Question: Who hosted the party whre Chopin met George Sand?
Answer: Marie d'Agoult

Question: What year did Maria Wodzińska's mother tell Chopin that he likely would not marry her daughter?
Answer: 1837

Question: What did Chopin write on the package that contained letters from Maria and her mother?
Answer: My tragedy

Question: Who did Sand confide to in a letter about her feelings for Chopin in June, 1838?
Answer: Grzymała
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In June 1837 Chopin visited London incognito in the company of the piano manufacturer Camille Pleyel where he played at a musical soirée at the house of English piano maker James Broadwood. On his return to Paris, his association with Sand began in earnest, and by the end of June 1838 they had become lovers. Sand, who was six years older than the composer, and who had had a series of lovers, wrote at this time: "I must say I was confused and amazed at the effect this little creature had on me ... I have still not recovered from my astonishment, and if I were a proud person I should be feeling humiliated at having been carried away ..." The two spent a miserable winter on Majorca (8 November 1838 to 13 February 1839), where, together with Sand's two children, they had journeyed in the hope of improving the health of Chopin and that of Sand's 15-year-old son Maurice, and also to escape the threats of Sand's former lover Félicien Mallefille. After discovering that the couple were not married, the deeply traditional Catholic people of Majorca became inhospitable, making accommodation difficult to find. This compelled the group to take lodgings in a former Carthusian monastery in Valldemossa, which gave little shelter from the cold winter weather.

Question: What city did Frédéric visit in June 1837?
Answer: London

Question: What event occurred on Frédéric's return to Paris?
Answer: his association with Sand began in earnest

Question: How many years older was George Sand compared to Frédéric?
Answer: six

Question: What adjective is used to describe Frédéric and Sand's time together during the winter of 1838?
Answer: miserable

Question: Where did Frédéric and Sand venture to after Majorca became unlivable when it was discovered they were not married?
Answer: Valldemossa

Question: With whom did Chopin go to London with in 1837?
Answer: Camille Pleyel

Question: What was James Broadwood's occupation?
Answer: piano maker

Question: How much older was George Sands than Chopin?
Answer: six years

Question: During Sands and Chopin's visit to Majorca who were they fleeing?
Answer: Félicien Mallefille

Question: After it became known that Sands and Chopin were unmarried where did they end up taking up shelter?
Answer: a former Carthusian monastery

Question: When did Chopin and Sand become lovers?
Answer: June 1838

Question: Where did Chopin and Sand go between November 1838 and February 1839?
Answer: Majorca

Question: Who joined Chopin and Sand on their trip to Majorca?
Answer: Sand's two children

Question: One of the reasons Chopin and Sand went to Majorca was to escape the threats of who?
Answer: Félicien Mallefille.

Question: Where did Chopin and Sand stay in Valldemossa?
Answer: a former Carthusian monastery
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On 3 December, Chopin complained about his bad health and the incompetence of the doctors in Majorca: "Three doctors have visited me ... The first said I was dead; the second said I was dying; and the third said I was about to die." He also had problems having his Pleyel piano sent to him. It finally arrived from Paris in December. Chopin wrote to Pleyel in January 1839: "I am sending you my Preludes [(Op. 28)]. I finished them on your little piano, which arrived in the best possible condition in spite of the sea, the bad weather and the Palma customs." Chopin was also able to undertake work on his Ballade No. 2, Op. 38; two Polonaises, Op. 40; and the Scherzo No. 3, Op. 39.

Question: How many doctors saw Frédéric by the 3rd of December?
Answer: Three

Question: What did Frédéric have trouble playing as a result of his growing illness?
Answer: piano

Question: What condition did Frédéric describe the piano that arrived to him through many dangerous obstacles?
Answer: best possible condition

Question: How many doctors visited Chopin?
Answer: 3

Question: What month did Chopin's piano arrive?
Answer: December

Question: What did Chopin compalin about?
Answer: his bad health

Question: What did Chopin have a hard time getting delivered to Majorca?
Answer: his Pleyel piano

Question: What month did Chopin's Pleyel piano arrive in Majorca?
Answer: December

Question: Who did Chopin send his Preludes to?
Answer: Pleyel
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Although this period had been productive, the bad weather had such a detrimental effect on Chopin's health that Sand determined to leave the island. To avoid further customs duties, Sand sold the piano to a local French couple, the Canuts.[n 8] The group traveled first to Barcelona, then to Marseilles, where they stayed for a few months while Chopin convalesced. In May 1839 they headed for the summer to Sand's estate at Nohant, where they spent most summers until 1846. In autumn they returned to Paris, where Chopin's apartment at 5 rue Tronchet was close to Sand's rented accommodation at the rue Pigalle. He frequently visited Sand in the evenings, but both retained some independence. In 1842 he and Sand moved to the Square d'Orléans, living in adjacent buildings.

Question: What is stated as having a negative effect on Frédéric's health during this productive time?
Answer: bad weather

Question: What culture of French people did Sand sell the piano to?
Answer: Canuts

Question: What city did the group travel to in order to help Frédéric recover?
Answer: Marseilles

Question: Where was Sand's estate located where they stayed for the summers until 1846?
Answer: Nohant

Question: Where did Frédéric and Sand move to in 1842 in buildings next to each other?
Answer: Square d'Orléans

Question: Who did Sand sell Chopin's piano to?
Answer: the Canuts

Question: Where did the group travel to after Barcelona?
Answer: Marseilles

Question: Where was Sand's home?
Answer: Nohant

Question: After returning to Paris where was Chopin's apartment?
Answer: 5 rue Tronchet

Question: In 1842 where did Chopin and Sand move?
Answer: Square d'Orléans

Question: What had a negative effect on Chopin's health?
Answer: the bad weather

Question: Who did Sand sell the piano to?
Answer: the Canuts.

Question: Where did they travel after leaving Barcelona?
Answer: Marseilles

Question: Where did Chopin and Sand move to in 1842?
Answer: Square d'Orléans

Question: Where did they spend most summers until 1846?
Answer: Nohant
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At the funeral of the tenor Adolphe Nourrit in Paris in 1839, Chopin made a rare appearance at the organ, playing a transcription of Franz Schubert's lied Die Gestirne. On 26 July 1840 Chopin and Sand were present at the dress rehearsal of Berlioz's Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale, composed to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the July Revolution. Chopin was reportedly unimpressed with the composition.

Question: What event were Chopin and Sand at on 26 July 1840?
Answer: Berlioz's Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale

Question: What anniversary was the July Revolution that Sand and Chopin were present at a dress rehearsal for?
Answer: tenth

Question: At whose funeral did Chopin play in 1839?
Answer: Adolphe Nourrit

Question: What instrument did Chopin play at  Adolphe Nourrit's funeral?
Answer: organ

Question: What piece did Chopin play at  Adolphe Nourrit's funeral?
Answer: Franz Schubert's lied Die Gestirne

Question: Chopin attended the funeral of who in 1839?
Answer: Adolphe Nourrit

Question: What did Chopin play at the funeral?
Answer: Franz Schubert's lied Die Gestirne.

Question: What was the dress rehearsal for?
Answer: Berlioz's Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale

Question: It was in commemoration of the tenth anniversary of what?
Answer: the July Revolution.
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During the summers at Nohant, particularly in the years 1839–43, Chopin found quiet, productive days during which he composed many works, including his Polonaise in A-flat major, Op. 53. Among the visitors to Nohant were Delacroix and the mezzo-soprano Pauline Viardot, whom Chopin had advised on piano technique and composition. Delacroix gives an account of staying at Nohant in a letter of 7 June 1842:

Question: What is the example given of a work produced by Frédéric during calm summers at Nohant?
Answer: Polonaise in A-flat major, Op. 53

Question: Which of the two people that visited Chopin were tutored by him on piano?
Answer: Pauline Viardot

Question: On what date did Delacroix write a letter based on his visit at Nohant?
Answer: 7 June 1842

Question: What did Chopin help Pauline Viardot with?
Answer: piano technique and composition

Question: Who were two visitors to Chopin while in Nohant?
Answer: Delacroix and the mezzo-soprano Pauline Viardot

Question: What two things did Chopin advise Viardot on?
Answer: piano technique and composition.

Question: Who wrote a letter on June 7, 1842 about a stay in Nohant?
Answer: Delacroix
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From 1842 onwards, Chopin showed signs of serious illness. After a solo recital in Paris on 21 February 1842, he wrote to Grzymała: "I have to lie in bed all day long, my mouth and tonsils are aching so much." He was forced by illness to decline a written invitation from Alkan to participate in a repeat performance of the Beethoven Seventh Symphony arrangement at Erard's on 1 March 1843. Late in 1844, Charles Hallé visited Chopin and found him "hardly able to move, bent like a half-opened penknife and evidently in great pain", although his spirits returned when he started to play the piano for his visitor. Chopin's health continued to deteriorate, particularly from this time onwards. Modern research suggests that apart from any other illnesses, he may also have suffered from temporal lobe epilepsy.

Question: In which year did Chopin begin experiencing a serious decline in health?
Answer: 1842

Question: To whom did Chopin write a letter on 21 February 1842 about his agonizing pain?
Answer: Grzymała

Question: What performance was Chopin forced to decline due to his increasing ill health?
Answer: Beethoven Seventh Symphony arrangement at Erard's

Question: What instrument did Chopin play for Charles Hallé when the latter visited him?
Answer: piano

Question: What has current day research suggested that Chopin was suffering from alongside his other illnesses?
Answer: temporal lobe epilepsy

Question: Starting in what year did Chopin start showing evidence of very bad health?
Answer: 1842

Question: What second performance did Chopin have to decline to play?
Answer: Beethoven Seventh Symphony arrangement

Question: What specific illness does modern evidence point to Chopin having?
Answer: temporal lobe epilepsy

Question: When did Chopin show signs of serious illness?
Answer: From 1842 onwards

Question: Chopin wrote in 1842 that he had to lie in bed all day because what ached so much?
Answer: mouth and tonsils

Question: Chopin had to decline who's invitation in 1843 to particpate in a performance at Erard's?
Answer: Alkan

Question: Who visited Chopin in 1844 and wrote about his inability to move?
Answer: Charles Hallé

Question: Modern medicine indicates Chopin may have suffered from what condition?
Answer: temporal lobe epilepsy.
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Chopin's relations with Sand were soured in 1846 by problems involving her daughter Solange and Solange's fiancé, the young fortune-hunting sculptor Auguste Clésinger. The composer frequently took Solange's side in quarrels with her mother; he also faced jealousy from Sand's son Maurice. Chopin was utterly indifferent to Sand's radical political pursuits, while Sand looked on his society friends with disdain. As the composer's illness progressed, Sand had become less of a lover and more of a nurse to Chopin, whom she called her "third child". In letters to third parties, she vented her impatience, referring to him as a "child," a "little angel", a "sufferer" and a "beloved little corpse." In 1847 Sand published her novel Lucrezia Floriani, whose main characters—a rich actress and a prince in weak health—could be interpreted as Sand and Chopin; the story was uncomplimentary to Chopin, who could not have missed the allusions as he helped Sand correct the printer's galleys. In 1847 he did not visit Nohant, and he quietly ended their ten-year relationship following an angry correspondence which, in Sand's words, made "a strange conclusion to nine years of exclusive friendship." The two would never meet again.

Question: What was the name of Sand's daughter's fiance that contributed to deteriorating the relationship between Sand and Chopin?
Answer: Auguste Clésinger

Question: What was the interest Sand had that Chopin showed apathy towards?
Answer: radical political pursuits

Question: What did Sand begin referring to Chopin as as his illness got worse?
Answer: third child

Question: What was the name of Sand's novel she published in reference to her situation with Chopin?
Answer: Lucrezia Floriani

Question: In what year did Chopin and Sand ultimately bring their relationship to a close?
Answer: 1847

Question: When did Chopin's relationship with Sand start to deteriorate?
Answer: 1846

Question: Whom did Sand's daughter Solange become engaged to?
Answer: Auguste Clésinger

Question: What novel did Sand write in 1847?
Answer: Lucrezia Floriani

Question: Who was the fortune hunter engaged to Sand's daughter?
Answer: Auguste Clésinger.

Question: What role did Sand take on as her relationship with Chopin progressed?
Answer: nurse

Question: What was the name of Sand's book where the main characters can be interpreted as Sand and Chopin?
Answer: Lucrezia Floriani

Question: When did Chopin end his relationship with Sand?
Answer: 1847
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Chopin's output as a composer throughout this period declined in quantity year by year. Whereas in 1841 he had written a dozen works, only six were written in 1842 and six shorter pieces in 1843. In 1844 he wrote only the Op. 58 sonata. 1845 saw the completion of three mazurkas (Op. 59). Although these works were more refined than many of his earlier compositions, Zamoyski opines that "his powers of concentration were failing and his inspiration was beset by anguish, both emotional and intellectual."

Question: What was the name of the single piece of work he wrote in 1844?
Answer: Op. 58 sonata

Question: What can be said of these works compared to his work in other years even though the quantity was less?
Answer: more refined than many of his earlier compositions

Question: How many pieces did Chopin write in 1841?
Answer: a dozen

Question: How many pieces did Chopin compose in 1842?
Answer: six

Question: What piece did Chopin compose in 1844?
Answer: Op. 58 sonata

Question: How many works did Chopin write in 1842?
Answer: six

Question: How many works did Chopin write in 1843?
Answer: six shorter pieces

Question: How many works did Chopin write in 1845?
Answer: three mazurkas
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Chopin's public popularity as a virtuoso began to wane, as did the number of his pupils, and this, together with the political strife and instability of the time, caused him to struggle financially. In February 1848, with the cellist Auguste Franchomme, he gave his last Paris concert, which included three movements of the Cello Sonata Op. 65.

Question: In what month and year did Chopin give his final performance?
Answer: February 1848

Question: With whom did Chopin perform his final concert?
Answer: Auguste Franchomme

Question: When did Chopin last perform?
Answer: February 1848

Question: Who did Chopin last perform with?
Answer: Auguste Franchomme

Question: Plitical strife, popularity decline, instability of era and fewer students caused Chopin to what?
Answer: struggle financially.

Question: Who did Chopin have at his last Parisian concert in 1848?
Answer: Auguste Franchomme

Question: What instrument did Auguste Franchomme play?
Answer: Cello
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Chopin's life was covered in a BBC TV documentary Chopin – The Women Behind The Music (2010), and in a 2010 documentary realised by Angelo Bozzolini and Roberto Prosseda for Italian television.

Question: What television station made a documentary on Chopin?
Answer: BBC

Question: What two people created a documentary on Chopin for Italian tv?
Answer: Angelo Bozzolini and Roberto Prosseda

Question: What was the title of the documentary the BBC released?
Answer: The Women Behind The Music

Question: What television station released a documentary on Chopin?
Answer: BBC

Question: What was the name of the documentary released by the BBC?
Answer: Chopin – The Women Behind The Music

Question: What are the names of the two people that created a documentary for Italian tele vision?
Answer: Angelo Bozzolini and Roberto Prosseda

Question: Who did a work for Italian television about Chopin's life?
Answer: Angelo Bozzolini and Roberto Prosseda
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Chopin's life and his relations with George Sand have been fictionalized in numerous films. The 1945 biographical film A Song to Remember earned Cornel Wilde an Academy Award nomination as Best Actor for his portrayal of the composer. Other film treatments have included: La valse de l'adieu (France, 1928) by Henry Roussel, with Pierre Blanchar as Chopin; Impromptu (1991), starring Hugh Grant as Chopin; La note bleue (1991); and Chopin: Desire for Love (2002).

Question: What was the name of the 1945 movie released about Chopin?
Answer: A Song to Remember

Question: What is the name of the actor who received and Oscar nomination for his role as Chopin?
Answer: Cornel Wilde

Question: What year was  La valse de l'adieu released?
Answer: 1928

Question: Who starred as Chopin in Impromptu?
Answer: Hugh Grant

Question: Chopins relations with whom have been fictionalized in movies?
Answer: George Sand

Question: What 1945 film was a fictionalized accounting of the relationship between Chopin and Sand?
Answer: A Song to Remember

Question: Who portrayed Chopin in A Song to Remember?
Answer: Cornel Wilde

Question: Who portrayed Chopin in the 1928 film, La valse de l'adieu?
Answer: Pierre Blanchar

Question: Who portrayed Chopin in the 1991 film, Impromptu?
Answer: Hugh Grant
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Possibly the first venture into fictional treatments of Chopin's life was a fanciful operatic version of some of its events. Chopin was written by Giacomo Orefice and produced in Milan in 1901. All the music is derived from that of Chopin.

Question: When was the first fictionalized account of Chopin's life?
Answer: 1901

Question: Where was the first fictionalized account of Chopin's life created?
Answer: Milan

Question: Who is responsible for the first fictionalized account of Chopin's life?
Answer: Giacomo Orefice

Question: What is thought to be the first fictionalized work about Chopin?
Answer: Chopin

Question: What style is the fictionalized "Chopin" in?
Answer: opera

Question: Who wrote the fictionalized "Chopin?"
Answer: Giacomo Orefice

Question: When was the fictionalized "Chopin" produced?
Answer: 1901.

Question: Where was the fictionalized "Chopin" produced?
Answer: Milan
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Chopin has figured extensively in Polish literature, both in serious critical studies of his life and music and in fictional treatments. The earliest manifestation was probably an 1830 sonnet on Chopin by Leon Ulrich. French writers on Chopin (apart from Sand) have included Marcel Proust and André Gide; and he has also featured in works of Gottfried Benn and Boris Pasternak. There are numerous biographies of Chopin in English (see bibliography for some of these).

Question: An 1830 sonnet was written about Chopin by what man?
Answer: Leon Ulrich

Question: Aside from George Sands what two French authors have written about Chopin?
Answer: Marcel Proust and André Gide

Question: Leon Ulrich wrote about Chopin in what format?
Answer: sonnet

Question: What is the earliest sighting of Chopin in Polish Literature?
Answer: sonnet on Chopin by Leon Ulrich

Question: When did Ulrich do his sonnet on Chopin?
Answer: 1830

Question: In addition to Polish and French, what other language has numerous biogrpahies of Chopin?
Answer: English
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Numerous recordings of Chopin's works are available. On the occasion of the composer's bicentenary, the critics of The New York Times recommended performances by the following contemporary pianists (among many others): Martha Argerich, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Emanuel Ax, Evgeny Kissin, Murray Perahia, Maurizio Pollini and Krystian Zimerman. The Warsaw Chopin Society organizes the Grand prix du disque de F. Chopin for notable Chopin recordings, held every five years.

Question: The Warsaw Chopin Society holds the Grand prix du disque de F. Chopin how often?
Answer: every five years.

Question: What is the name of the event that The Warsaw Chopin Society holds?
Answer: Grand prix du disque de F. Chopin

Question: On Chopin's 200th anniversary critics of what publication made recommendations on recordings of Chopin's work?
Answer: The New York Times

Question: Who organizes the Grand prix du disque de F. Chopin for notable Chopin recordings?
Answer: The Warsaw Chopin Society

Question: How often is the Grand prix du disque de F. Chopin for notable Chopin recordings held?
Answer: every five years.

Question: Upon Chopin's bicentenary, who recommended a list of who should perform Chopin?
Answer: The New York Times
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The British Library notes that "Chopin's works have been recorded by all the great pianists of the recording era." The earliest recording was an 1895 performance by Paul Pabst of the Nocturne in E major Op. 62 No. 2. The British Library site makes available a number of historic recordings, including some by Alfred Cortot, Ignaz Friedman, Vladimir Horowitz, Benno Moiseiwitsch, Paderewski, Arthur Rubinstein, Xaver Scharwenka and many others. A select discography of recordings of Chopin works by pianists representing the various pedagogic traditions stemming from Chopin is given by Methuen-Campbell in his work tracing the lineage and character of those traditions.

Question: What year was the earliest Chopin recording created?
Answer: 1895

Question: What is the title of the earliest known recording of Chopin's work?
Answer: Nocturne in E major Op. 62 No. 2

Question: Who played the earlier known recording of Chopin's work?
Answer: Paul Pabst

Question: What has stated that every pianist in the recording era has used Chopin's music?
Answer: The British Library

Question: When did Pabst record his Chopin performance?
Answer: 1895

Question: Who has given a discography of pianists' representation of Chopin's pedagogic style?
Answer: Methuen-Campbell
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Chopin's music remains very popular and is regularly performed, recorded and broadcast worldwide. The world's oldest monographic music competition, the International Chopin Piano Competition, founded in 1927, is held every five years in Warsaw. The Fryderyk Chopin Institute of Poland lists on its website over eighty societies world-wide devoted to the composer and his music. The Institute site also lists nearly 1,500 performances of Chopin works on YouTube as of January 2014.

Question: What is the name of the oldest music essay competition?
Answer: International Chopin Piano Competition

Question: What year was the International Chopin Piano Competition founded?
Answer: 1927

Question: Where is the International Chopin Piano Competition held?
Answer: Warsaw

Question: How often is the International Chopin Piano Competition held?
Answer: every five years

Question: The Fryderyk Chopin Institute of Poland includes approximately how many recordings of Chopin's work from Youtube?
Answer: 1,500

Question: What is the world's oldest monographic music competition?
Answer: the International Chopin Piano Competition

Question: When was the International Chopin Piano Competition established?
Answer: 1927

Question: There are over 80 societies throughout the world that have been established because of Chopin and his music according to who?
Answer: The Fryderyk Chopin Institute of Poland

Question: How many known works of Chopin's music were on YouTube up to the beginning of 2014?
Answer: nearly 1,500
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Chopin's music was used in the 1909 ballet Chopiniana, choreographed by Michel Fokine and orchestrated by Alexander Glazunov. Sergei Diaghilev commissioned additional orchestrations—from Stravinsky, Anatoly Lyadov, Sergei Taneyev and Nikolai Tcherepnin—for later productions, which used the title Les Sylphides.

Question: What is the name of the ballet that included Chopin's work?
Answer: Chopiniana

Question: Who choreographed a ballet which included Chopin's work?
Answer: Michel Fokine

Question: Chopiniana later went by a different name, what is that name?
Answer: Les Sylphides

Question: Who orchestrated Chopiniana?
Answer: Alexander Glazunov

Question: What year was the Chopiniana released?
Answer: 1909

Question: Which 1909 ballet used Chopin's music?
Answer: Chopiniana

Question: Who choreographed Chopiniana?
Answer: Michel Fokine

Question: Who orchestrated Chopiniana?
Answer: Alexander Glazunov.

Question: Sergei Diaghilev obtained additional orchestrations for subsequent productions, using which title?
Answer: Les Sylphides.
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In April, during the Revolution of 1848 in Paris, he left for London, where he performed at several concerts and at numerous receptions in great houses. This tour was suggested to him by his Scottish pupil Jane Stirling and her elder sister. Stirling also made all the logistical arrangements and provided much of the necessary funding.

Question: Where did Chopin head to during the Revolution of 1848?
Answer: London

Question: Who provided the majority of funds for his concert tour in London?
Answer: Jane Stirling

Question: Where did Chopin go in the spring of 1848?
Answer: London

Question: What two people suggested the 1848 tour?
Answer: Jane Stirling and her elder sister

Question: Who paid for most of the 1848 music tour of Chopin?
Answer: Jane Stirling

Question: What was happening in April 1848 in Paris?
Answer: Revolution

Question: What was Jane Stirling's national heritage?
Answer: Scottish
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In London Chopin took lodgings at Dover Street, where the firm of Broadwood provided him with a grand piano. At his first engagement, on 15 May at Stafford House, the audience included Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. The Prince, who was himself a talented musician, moved close to the keyboard to view Chopin's technique. Broadwood also arranged concerts for him; among those attending were Thackeray and the singer Jenny Lind. Chopin was also sought after for piano lessons, for which he charged the high fee of one guinea (£1.05 in present British currency) per hour, and for private recitals for which the fee was 20 guineas. At a concert on 7 July he shared the platform with Viardot, who sang arrangements of some of his mazurkas to Spanish texts.

Question: Where did Chopin stay while in London?
Answer: Dover Street

Question: What company provided Chopin with a piano while in London?
Answer: Broadwood

Question: Where was Chopin's initial performance?
Answer: Stafford House

Question: What two notable guests were present during his premiere performance at Stafford House?
Answer: Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

Question: What date did he perform with Viardot?
Answer: 7 July

Question: What steet did Chopin stay on in London?
Answer: Dover Street

Question: What did Broadway provide for Chopin?
Answer: a grand piano.

Question: What two dignitaries where at his first performance in London?
Answer: Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.

Question: In addition to hearing him play, what else did people seek from Chopin in London?
Answer: piano lessons

Question: Who sang chopin arrangements on July 7 of the year Chopin was in London?
Answer: Viardot
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In late summer he was invited by Jane Stirling to visit Scotland, where he stayed at Calder House near Edinburgh and at Johnstone Castle in Renfrewshire, both owned by members of Stirling's family. She clearly had a notion of going beyond mere friendship, and Chopin was obliged to make it clear to her that this could not be so. He wrote at this time to Grzymała "My Scottish ladies are kind, but such bores", and responding to a rumour about his involvement, answered that he was "closer to the grave than the nuptial bed." He gave a public concert in Glasgow on 27 September, and another in Edinburgh, at the Hopetoun Rooms on Queen Street (now Erskine House) on 4 October. In late October 1848, while staying at 10 Warriston Crescent in Edinburgh with the Polish physician Adam Łyszczyński, he wrote out his last will and testament—"a kind of disposition to be made of my stuff in the future, if I should drop dead somewhere", he wrote to Grzymała.

Question: Where did Jane Stirling invite Chopin?
Answer: Scotland

Question: What doctor was with Chopin when he wrote out his will?
Answer: Adam Łyszczyński

Question: Where was Chopin invited to in late summer?
Answer: Scotland

Question: What city did Chopin perform at on September 27?
Answer: Glasgow

Question: What did Chopin write while staying with Doctor Adam Łyszczyński?
Answer: will
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At the end of November, Chopin returned to Paris. He passed the winter in unremitting illness, but gave occasional lessons and was visited by friends, including Delacroix and Franchomme. Occasionally he played, or accompanied the singing of Delfina Potocka, for his friends. During the summer of 1849, his friends found him an apartment in Chaillot, out of the centre of the city, for which the rent was secretly subsidised by an admirer, Princess Obreskoff. Here in June 1849 he was visited by Jenny Lind.

Question: Who did Chopin play for while she sang?
Answer: Delfina Potocka

Question: In 1849 where did Chopin live?
Answer: Chaillot

Question: Who was anonymously paying for Chopin's apartment?
Answer: Princess Obreskoff

Question: When did Chopin return to Paris?
Answer: November

Question: Chopin accompanied which singer for friends?
Answer: Delfina Potocka

Question: Where did his friends found Chopin an apartment in 1849?
Answer: Chaillot

Question: Who paid for Chopin's apartment in Chaillot?
Answer: Princess Obreskoff.

Question: When did Jenny Lind visit Chopin?
Answer: June 1849
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With his health further deteriorating, Chopin desired to have a family member with him. In June 1849 his sister Ludwika came to Paris with her husband and daughter, and in September, supported by a loan from Jane Stirling, he took an apartment at Place Vendôme 12. After 15 October, when his condition took a marked turn for the worse, only a handful of his closest friends remained with him, although Viardot remarked sardonically that "all the grand Parisian ladies considered it de rigueur to faint in his room."

Question: When did his sister come to stay with Chopin?
Answer: June 1849

Question: In September 1849 where did Chopin take up residence?
Answer: Place Vendôme 12

Question: Which family member came to Paris in June 1849?
Answer: his sister

Question: Who accompanied Chopin's sister to Paris?
Answer: her husband and daughter

Question: Who gave Chopin a loan in September for an apartment?
Answer: Jane Stirling

Question: What did Parisian ladies consider proper etiquette when in Chopin's room?
Answer: to faint
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Some of his friends provided music at his request; among them, Potocka sang and Franchomme played the cello. Chopin requested that his body be opened after death (for fear of being buried alive) and his heart returned to Warsaw where it rests at the Church of the Holy Cross. He also bequeathed his unfinished notes on a piano tuition method, Projet de méthode, to Alkan for completion. On 17 October, after midnight, the physician leaned over him and asked whether he was suffering greatly. "No longer", he replied. He died a few minutes before two o'clock in the morning. Those present at the deathbed appear to have included his sister Ludwika, Princess Marcelina Czartoryska, Sand's daughter Solange, and his close friend Thomas Albrecht. Later that morning, Solange's husband Clésinger made Chopin's death mask and a cast of his left hand.

Question: Why did Chopin request being cut open after his death?
Answer: fear of being buried alive

Question: What did Chopin reply to the doctor when asked is he was suffering?
Answer: "No longer"

Question: Who made Chopin's death mask?
Answer: Clésinger

Question: Why did Chopin want his body opened when he died?
Answer: fear of being buried alive

Question: What did Solange's husband make hours after Chopin's death along with his death mask?
Answer: a cast of his left hand.
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Chopin's disease and the cause of his death have since been a matter of discussion. His death certificate gave the cause as tuberculosis, and his physician, Jean Cruveilhier, was then the leading French authority on this disease. Other possibilities have been advanced including cystic fibrosis, cirrhosis and alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency. However, the attribution of tuberculosis as principal cause of death has not been disproved. Permission for DNA testing, which could put the matter to rest, has been denied by the Polish government.

Question: What is listed as Chopin's official cause of death?
Answer: tuberculosis

Question: What was the name of Chopin's doctor?
Answer: Jean Cruveilhier

Question: What has the Polish government not allowed to find true cause of death?
Answer: DNA testing

Question: What was the cause of death on Chopin's death certificate?
Answer: tuberculosis

Question: Who was Chopin's physician?
Answer: Jean Cruveilhier

Question: Other possiblities for Chopin's death include cirrhosis, alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency, and what?
Answer: cystic fibrosis

Question: Who has denied testing Chopin's DNA to determine the actual cause of death?
Answer: the Polish government.
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The funeral, held at the Church of the Madeleine in Paris, was delayed almost two weeks, until 30 October. Entrance was restricted to ticket holders as many people were expected to attend. Over 3,000 people arrived without invitations, from as far as London, Berlin and Vienna, and were excluded.

Question: Where was Chopin's funeral held?
Answer: Church of the Madeleine

Question: How long was Chopin's funeral delayed?
Answer: two weeks

Question: How many people arrived for Chopin's funeral?
Answer: Over 3,000

Question: Where was Chopin's funeral held?
Answer: the Church of the Madeleine in Paris

Question: How long was Chopin's funeral delayed?
Answer: two weeks

Question: How many people arrived without an invitation?
Answer: Over 3,000
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Mozart's Requiem was sung at the funeral; the soloists were the soprano Jeanne-Anais Castellan, the mezzo-soprano Pauline Viardot, the tenor Alexis Dupont, and the bass Luigi Lablache; Chopin's Preludes No. 4 in E minor and No. 6 in B minor were also played. The organist at the funeral was Louis Lefébure-Wély. The funeral procession to Père Lachaise Cemetery, which included Chopin's sister Ludwika, was led by the aged Prince Adam Czartoryski. The pallbearers included Delacroix, Franchomme, and Camille Pleyel. At the graveside, the Funeral March from Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 2 was played, in Reber's instrumentation.

Question: What song was sung at Chopin's funeral?
Answer: Mozart's Requiem

Question: Who was the organist at Chopin's funeral?
Answer: Louis Lefébure-Wély

Question: Who led Chopin's funeral procession?
Answer: Prince Adam Czartoryski

Question: What was played at his graveside?
Answer: Funeral March from Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 2

Question: What Mozart song was sung at Chopin's funeral?
Answer: Mozart's Requiem

Question: Who was the organist for Chopin's funeral?
Answer: Louis Lefébure-Wély

Question: Which cemetery was Chopin buried in?
Answer: Père Lachaise Cemetery

Question: Who led the funeral procession?
Answer: Prince Adam Czartoryski

Question: What was played at Chopin's graveside?
Answer: the Funeral March from Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 2
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Chopin's tombstone, featuring the muse of music, Euterpe, weeping over a broken lyre, was designed and sculpted by Clésinger. The expenses of the funeral and monument, amounting to 5,000 francs, were covered by Jane Stirling, who also paid for the return of the composer's sister Ludwika to Warsaw. Ludwika took Chopin's heart in an urn, preserved in alcohol, back to Poland in 1850.[n 9] She also took a collection of two hundred letters from Sand to Chopin; after 1851 these were returned to Sand, who seems to have destroyed them.

Question: Who sculpted Chopin's tombstone?
Answer: Clésinger

Question: What is the name of the muse carved on Chopin's tombstone?
Answer: Euterpe

Question: How much did Chopin's funeral cost?
Answer: 5,000 francs

Question: Who paid for Chopin's funeral?
Answer: Jane Stirling

Question: Chopin's sister Ludwika took his heart back to Warsaw preserved in what?
Answer: alcohol

Question: Who designed Chopin's tombstone?
Answer: Clésinger.

Question: How much did Chopin's funeral and monument cost?
Answer: 5,000 francs

Question: Who paid for Chopin's funeral?
Answer: Jane Stirling

Question: Who took Chopin's heart to Poland?
Answer: sister

Question: Who ended up with the 200 letters from Sand to Chopin?
Answer: Sand
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Over 230 works of Chopin survive; some compositions from early childhood have been lost. All his known works involve the piano, and only a few range beyond solo piano music, as either piano concertos, songs or chamber music.

Question: How many of Chopin's works still exist?
Answer: Over 230

Question: All of his pieces include what instrument?
Answer: piano

Question: How many Chopin pieces are known to have survived?
Answer: Over 230

Question: Only a few of Chopin's pieces involve more than the piano, including piano concertos, songs and what?
Answer: chamber music.
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Chopin was educated in the tradition of Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart and Clementi; he used Clementi's piano method with his own students. He was also influenced by Hummel's development of virtuoso, yet Mozartian, piano technique. He cited Bach and Mozart as the two most important composers in shaping his musical outlook. Chopin's early works are in the style of the "brilliant" keyboard pieces of his era as exemplified by the works of Ignaz Moscheles, Friedrich Kalkbrenner, and others. Less direct in the earlier period are the influences of Polish folk music and of Italian opera. Much of what became his typical style of ornamentation (for example, his fioriture) is taken from singing. His melodic lines were increasingly reminiscent of the modes and features of the music of his native country, such as drones.

Question: Whose piano method did Chopin teach his students?
Answer: Clementi

Question: Whose piano method did Chopin use with his students?
Answer: Clementi

Question: Who did Chopin say were the two most important composers in his own music influences?
Answer: Bach and Mozart

Question: Chopin looked to Beethoven, Mozart, Clementi and who for his own music education?
Answer: Haydn
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Chopin took the new salon genre of the nocturne, invented by the Irish composer John Field, to a deeper level of sophistication. He was the first to write ballades and scherzi as individual concert pieces. He essentially established a new genre with his own set of free-standing preludes (Op. 28, published 1839). He exploited the poetic potential of the concept of the concert étude, already being developed in the 1820s and 1830s by Liszt, Clementi and Moscheles, in his two sets of studies (Op. 10 published in 1833, Op. 25 in 1837).

Question: Who is credited with creating the nocturne?
Answer: John Field

Question: Chopin was the first person to create what as singular concert pieces?
Answer: ballades and scherzi

Question: What new genre di John Field invent?
Answer: nocturne

Question: Chopin was first in writing what for concerts?
Answer: ballades and scherzi

Question: What musical concept did Chopin exploit?
Answer: concert étude

Question: What three other musicians were developing the new genre?
Answer: Liszt, Clementi and Moscheles
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Chopin also endowed popular dance forms with a greater range of melody and expression. Chopin's mazurkas, while originating in the traditional Polish dance (the mazurek), differed from the traditional variety in that they were written for the concert hall rather than the dance hall; "it was Chopin who put the mazurka on the European musical map." The series of seven polonaises published in his lifetime (another nine were published posthumously), beginning with the Op. 26 pair (published 1836), set a new standard for music in the form. His waltzes were also written specifically for the salon recital rather than the ballroom and are frequently at rather faster tempos than their dance-floor equivalents.

Question: How many polonaises were published while Chopin lived?
Answer: seven

Question: How many polonaises were published after Chopin died?
Answer: nine

Question: Chopin was credited for making what more internationally known?
Answer: mazurkas

Question: What is different about Chopin's waltzes versus a ballroom waltz?
Answer: faster tempos

Question: What did Chopin add to the modern dance of his era?
Answer: greater range of melody and expression.

Question: Chopin's Polish dance music was developed for what type of hall?
Answer: concert hall

Question: What was Chopin responsible for making popular with Euorpeans?
Answer: the mazurka

Question: How many Chopin polonaises were published after his death?
Answer: nine

Question: What dance music of Chopin was written more for recitals than ballrooms?
Answer: waltzes