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Beyoncé

Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter (/biːˈjɒnseɪ/ bee-YON-say) (born September 4, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and actress. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, she performed in various singing and dancing competitions as a child, and rose to fame in the late 1990s as lead singer of R&B girl-group Destiny's Child. Managed by her father, Mathew Knowles, the group became one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all time. Their hiatus saw the release of Beyoncé's debut album, Dangerously in Love (2003), which established her as a solo artist worldwide, earned five Grammy Awards and featured the Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles "Crazy in Love" and "Baby Boy".

Question: When did Beyonce start becoming popular?
Answer: in the late 1990s

Question: What areas did Beyonce compete in when she was growing up?
Answer: singing and dancing

Question: When did Beyonce leave Destiny's Child and become a solo singer?
Answer: 2003

Question: In what city and state did Beyonce  grow up? 
Answer: Houston, Texas

Question: In which decade did Beyonce become famous?
Answer: late 1990s

Question: In what R&B group was she the lead singer?
Answer: Destiny's Child

Question: What album made her a worldwide known artist?
Answer: Dangerously in Love

Question: Who managed the Destiny's Child group?
Answer: Mathew Knowles

Question: When did Beyoncé rise to fame?
Answer: late 1990s

Question: What role did Beyoncé have in Destiny's Child?
Answer: lead singer

Question: What was the first album Beyoncé released as a solo artist?
Answer: Dangerously in Love

Question: When did Beyoncé release Dangerously in Love?
Answer: 2003

Question: How many Grammy awards did Beyoncé win for her first solo album?
Answer: five

Question: What was Beyoncé's role in Destiny's Child?
Answer: lead singer

Question: What was the name of Beyoncé's first solo album?
Answer: Dangerously in Love
Frédéric_Chopin

Frédéric François Chopin (/ˈʃoʊpæn/; French pronunciation: ​[fʁe.de.ʁik fʁɑ̃.swa ʃɔ.pɛ̃]; 22 February or 1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849), born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin,[n 1] was a Polish and French (by citizenship and birth of father) composer and a virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era, who wrote primarily for the solo piano. He gained and has maintained renown worldwide as one of the leading musicians of his era, whose "poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation." Chopin was born in what was then the Duchy of Warsaw, and grew up in Warsaw, which after 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.

Question: What was Frédéric's nationalities?
Answer: Polish and French

Question: In what era was Frédéric active in?
Answer: Romantic era

Question: For what instrument did Frédéric write primarily for?
Answer: solo piano

Question: In what area was Frédéric born in?
Answer: Duchy of Warsaw

Question: At what age did Frédéric depart from Poland?
Answer: 20

Question: What year was Chopin born?
Answer: 1810

Question: What era was Chopin active during?
Answer: Romantic era

Question: Where did Chopin grow up?
Answer: Warsaw

Question: What instrument did he mostly compose for?
Answer: solo piano

Question: At what age did Chopin  leave Poland?
Answer: 20

Question: When did Chopin die?
Answer: 17 October 1849

Question: What was Chopin's full name?
Answer: Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin

Question: The majority of Chopin's compositions were for what instrument?
Answer: solo piano

Question: Chopin was active during what era?
Answer: Romantic era

Question: In what year was Chopin born?
Answer: 1810

Question: In what city was Chopin born and raised?
Answer: Warsaw

Question: How old was Chopin when he left Poland?
Answer: 20

Question: In what era of music did Chopin compose?
Answer: Romantic

Question: What year did Chopin die?
Answer: 1849
Frédéric_Chopin

At the age of 21 he settled in Paris. Thereafter, during the last 18 years of his life, he gave only some 30 public performances, preferring the more intimate atmosphere of the salon. He supported himself by selling his compositions and teaching piano, for which he was in high demand. Chopin formed a friendship with Franz Liszt and was admired by many of his musical contemporaries, including Robert Schumann. In 1835 he obtained French citizenship. After a failed engagement to Maria Wodzińska, from 1837 to 1847 he maintained an often troubled relationship with the French writer George Sand. A brief and unhappy visit to Majorca with Sand in 1838–39 was one of his most productive periods of composition. In his last years, he was financially supported by his admirer Jane Stirling, who also arranged for him to visit Scotland in 1848. Through most of his life, Chopin suffered from poor health. He died in Paris in 1849, probably of tuberculosis.

Question: At what age did Frédéric move to Paris?
Answer: 21

Question: How many public performances was Frédéric estimated to have given during the remainder of his life?
Answer: 30

Question: In what year did Frédéric obtain citizenship in France?
Answer: 1835

Question: In what area had Frédéric's most productive period of composition taken place?
Answer: Majorca

Question: What was Frédéric's most likely cause of death?
Answer: tuberculosis

Question: Where did he end up living when he was 21?
Answer: Paris

Question: How many public shows did he perform during the last years of his life?
Answer: 30

Question: What other composer did Chopin develop a friendship with?
Answer: Franz Liszt

Question: What year did he gain citizenship in France?
Answer: 1835

Question: What is the name of the woman he had a relationship with from 1837-847?
Answer: Maria Wodzińska

Question: At what age did Chopin move to Paris?
Answer: 21

Question: During the last 18 years he lived about how many times did Chopin perform in public?
Answer: 30

Question: What year did Chopin become a citizen of France?
Answer: 1835

Question: In the last years of his life who was the person that supported him financially?
Answer: Jane Stirling

Question: In what year did Chopin become a French citizen?
Answer: 1835

Question: Who gave Chopin money in the last years of his life?
Answer: Jane Stirling

Question: What was the likely cause of death for Chopin?
Answer: tuberculosis
Frédéric_Chopin

All of Chopin's compositions include the piano. Most are for solo piano, though he also wrote two piano concertos, a few chamber pieces, and some songs to Polish lyrics. His keyboard style is highly individual and often technically demanding; his own performances were noted for their nuance and sensitivity. Chopin invented the concept of instrumental ballade. His major piano works also include mazurkas, waltzes, nocturnes, polonaises, études, impromptus, scherzos, preludes and sonatas, some published only after his death. Influences on his compositional style include Polish folk music, the classical tradition of J. S. Bach, Mozart and Schubert, the music of all of whom he admired, as well as the Paris salons where he was a frequent guest. His innovations in style, musical form, and harmony, and his association of music with nationalism, were influential throughout and after the late Romantic period.

Question: What instrument did every composition by Frédéric include?
Answer: piano

Question: What concept was Frédéric credited with creating?
Answer: instrumental ballade

Question: Whose music did Frédéric admire the most and thus provide influence on his work?
Answer: J. S. Bach, Mozart and Schubert

Question: What features marked Frédéric's performance style and made them unique?
Answer: nuance and sensitivity

Question: What establishments did Frédéric frequently visit in Paris that influenced his career?
Answer: Paris salons

Question: Which instrument do every one of his compositions include?
Answer: piano

Question: What concept did Chopin create?
Answer: instrumental ballade

Question: What are two things Chopin's performances were known for?
Answer: nuance and sensitivity

Question: What three composers influenced Chopin's work?
Answer: J. S. Bach, Mozart and Schubert

Question: Chopin wrote some music to lyrics, what language were the lyrics?
Answer: Polish

Question: What instrument is involved in all of Chopin's work?
Answer: piano

Question: Chopin composed several songs to lyrics of what language?
Answer: Polish

Question: Chopin's performances were known for what?
Answer: nuance and sensitivity

Question: What three composers did Chopin take inspiration from?
Answer: J. S. Bach, Mozart and Schubert

Question: What instrument was all of Chopin's compositions written for?
Answer: piano

Question: What language were some songs written in that Chopin wrote music for?
Answer: Polish

Question: Of what venue was Chopin an often invited guest?
Answer: Paris salons
Frédéric_Chopin

In his native Poland, in France, where he composed most of his works, and beyond, Chopin's music, his status as one of music's earliest superstars, his association (if only indirect) with political insurrection, his love life and his early death have made him, in the public consciousness, a leading symbol of the Romantic era. His works remain popular, and he has been the subject of numerous films and biographies of varying degrees of historical accuracy.

Question: What was the degree of Frédéric's association with political insurrection?
Answer: indirect

Question: What parts of Frédéric's personal life influenced his legacy as a leading symbol of the era?
Answer: his love life and his early death

Question: In which era was Frédéric leave a legacy of as a leading symbol?
Answer: Romantic era

Question: In what forms of media has Frédéric been the subject of?
Answer: films and biographies

Question: Where did Chopin create the majority of his compositions?
Answer: France

Question: Chopin is a native of what country?
Answer: Poland

Question: He had a non-direct association with what?
Answer: political insurrection

Question: Chopin is closely associated with what era?
Answer: Romantic era

Question: Where did Chopin create most of his works?
Answer: France

Question: Chopin was indirectly related to what?
Answer: political insurrection

Question: Chopin is considered a prominent symbol of what?
Answer: Romantic era
Frédéric_Chopin

Fryderyk Chopin was born in Żelazowa Wola, 46 kilometres (29 miles) west of Warsaw, in what was then the Duchy of Warsaw, a Polish state established by Napoleon. The parish baptismal record gives his birthday as 22 February 1810, and cites his given names in the Latin form Fridericus Franciscus (in Polish, he was Fryderyk Franciszek). However, the composer and his family used the birthdate 1 March,[n 2] which is now generally accepted as the correct date.

Question: In what village was Frédéric born in?
Answer: Żelazowa Wola

Question: On what date was Frédéric born on?
Answer: 22 February 1810

Question: Despite the birthdate given by parish baptismal, what date is given by the composer and his family instead?
Answer: 1 March

Question: What was the latin form of Frédéric's full name?
Answer: Fridericus Franciscus

Question: How many miles was the village Frédéric born in located to the west of Warsaw?
Answer: 29

Question: Where was Chopin born?
Answer: Żelazowa Wola

Question: Who was responsible for the creation of the Duchy of Warsaw?
Answer: Napoleon

Question: When was his birthday recorded as being?
Answer: 22 February 1810

Question: What birth date is now considered as his actual birthday?
Answer: 1 March

Question: Chopin's given names in Latin are what?
Answer: Fridericus Franciscus

Question: The Duchy of Warsaw was created by whom?
Answer: Napoleon

Question: Chopin's birth is recorded as when?
Answer: 22 February 1810

Question: What birth date is now considered correct for Chopin?
Answer: 1 March

Question: What is the Latin form of Chopin's name?
Answer: Fridericus Franciscus

Question: Chopin was actually born outside of Warsaw at what location?
Answer: Żelazowa Wola

Question: What famous French leader had established the Polish state at this time?
Answer: Napoleon
Frédéric_Chopin

Fryderyk's father, Nicolas Chopin, was a Frenchman from Lorraine who had emigrated to Poland in 1787 at the age of sixteen. Nicolas tutored children of the Polish aristocracy, and in 1806 married Justyna Krzyżanowska, a poor relative of the Skarbeks, one of the families for whom he worked. Fryderyk was baptized on Easter Sunday, 23 April 1810, in the same church where his parents had married, in Brochów. His eighteen-year-old godfather, for whom he was named, was Fryderyk Skarbek, a pupil of Nicolas Chopin. Fryderyk was the couple's second child and only son; he had an elder sister, Ludwika (1807–55), and two younger sisters, Izabela (1811–81) and Emilia (1812–27). Nicolas was devoted to his adopted homeland, and insisted on the use of the Polish language in the household.

Question: Who did Frédéric's father marry in 1806?
Answer: Justyna Krzyżanowska

Question: On what date was Frédéric baptised?
Answer: 23 April 1810

Question: What language did Frédéric's father, Nicolas, insist on using in the household?
Answer: Polish

Question: What was the given name of Chopin's father?
Answer: Nicolas

Question: Where was Chopin's father from?
Answer: Lorraine

Question: Chopin's father married who?
Answer: Justyna Krzyżanowska

Question: What is the name of Chopin's godfather?
Answer: Fryderyk Skarbek

Question: What is the name of Chopin's eldest sister?
Answer: Ludwika

Question: What was Chopin's father's first name?
Answer: Nicolas

Question: From where id Chopin's father emigrate from?
Answer: Lorraine

Question: What is Chopin's older sister's name?
Answer: Ludwika
Frédéric_Chopin

In October 1810, six months after Fryderyk's birth, the family moved to Warsaw, where his father acquired a post teaching French at the Warsaw Lyceum, then housed in the Saxon Palace. Fryderyk lived with his family in the Palace grounds. The father played the flute and violin; the mother played the piano and gave lessons to boys in the boarding house that the Chopins kept. Chopin was of slight build, and even in early childhood was prone to illnesses.

Question: During what month did Frédéric move to Warsaw with his family?
Answer: October

Question: What language did Frédéric's father teach after they had moved to Warsaw?
Answer: French

Question: Where did Frédéric live with his family while they were in Warsaw?
Answer: the Palace grounds

Question: What two instruments did Frédéric's father play during this time?
Answer: flute and violin

Question: What was Frédéric prone to during early childhood as a result of his slight build?
Answer: illnesses

Question: When did Chopin's family move to Warsaw?
Answer: October 1810

Question: Where did Chopin's father get a teaching position?
Answer: Warsaw Lyceum

Question: What instruments did Chopin's father play?
Answer: flute and violin

Question: What instrument did Chopin's mother teach?
Answer: piano

Question: How old was Chopin when his family moved to Warsaw?
Answer: six months

Question: What language did Chopin's father teach?
Answer: French

Question: What two instruments did Chopin's father play?
Answer: flute and violin

Question: What instrument did Chopin's mother teach at the boarding house?
Answer: piano

Question: Where did Chopin live with his family in Warsaw?
Answer: Saxon Palace.
Frédéric_Chopin

Fryderyk may have had some piano instruction from his mother, but his first professional music tutor, from 1816 to 1821, was the Czech pianist Wojciech Żywny. His elder sister Ludwika also took lessons from Żywny, and occasionally played duets with her brother. It quickly became apparent that he was a child prodigy. By the age of seven Fryderyk had begun giving public concerts, and in 1817 he composed two polonaises, in G minor and B-flat major. His next work, a polonaise in A-flat major of 1821, dedicated to Żywny, is his earliest surviving musical manuscript.

Question: Who was Frédéric's first professional teacher in music?
Answer: Wojciech Żywny

Question: Which sister did Frédéric play duets with sometimes while being tutored at this time?
Answer: Ludwika

Question: At what age did Frédéric start giving public concerts?
Answer: 7

Question: What did Frédéric compose during the year of 1817?
Answer: two polonaises

Question: What is the earliest surviving musical notation composed by Frédéric?
Answer: a polonaise in A-flat major of 1821

Question: Who was Chopin's initial piano teacher?
Answer: Wojciech Żywny

Question: Which of his sisters did Chopin sometimes duet with?
Answer: Ludwika

Question: At what age did Chopin start playing publicly?
Answer: 7

Question: What year did Chopin compose his first work?
Answer: 1817

Question: During what years did Chopin receive instruction from  Żywny?
Answer: 1816 to 1821

Question: What is the name of Chopin's first music teacher that was not an amateur musician?
Answer: Wojciech Żywny

Question: Which of Chopin's sisters would play music with him?
Answer: Ludwika

Question: How old was Chopin when he began to perform for the public?
Answer: 7

Question: Who was Chopin's earliest piece of music, that there is a record of, dedicated to?
Answer: Wojciech Żywny
Frédéric_Chopin

In 1817 the Saxon Palace was requisitioned by Warsaw's Russian governor for military use, and the Warsaw Lyceum was reestablished in the Kazimierz Palace (today the rectorate of Warsaw University). Fryderyk and his family moved to a building, which still survives, adjacent to the Kazimierz Palace. During this period, Fryderyk was sometimes invited to the Belweder Palace as playmate to the son of the ruler of Russian Poland, Grand Duke Constantine; he played the piano for the Duke and composed a march for him. Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, in his dramatic eclogue, "Nasze Przebiegi" ("Our Discourses", 1818), attested to "little Chopin's" popularity.

Question: In what year was the Saxon Palace taken by the Russian governor for use regarding the military?
Answer: 1817

Question: What establishment today contains what was known as the Warsaw Lyceum during that time?
Answer: Warsaw University

Question: What building was Frédéric's new home adjacent to?
Answer: Kazimierz Palace

Question: What palace was Frédéric sometimes invited to as a companion of the ruler's son?
Answer: Belweder Palace

Question: What short poem spoke of Frédéric's popularity as a child?
Answer: Nasze Przebiegi

Question: The Saxon Palace was taken over for military use in what year?
Answer: 1817

Question: The Warsaw Lyceum was moved to where?
Answer: Kazimierz Palace

Question: As a child Chopin was invited to play with the son of whom?
Answer: Grand Duke Constantine

Question: What did Chopin create for Grand Duke Constantine?
Answer: a march

Question: In one of his works who affirmed the popularity of Chopin as a child?
Answer: Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz

Question: What was the place Chopin was invited to as a friend of ruler's son?
Answer: Belweder Palace

Question: What is the title and name of the ruler whose son Chopin was friends with?
Answer: Grand Duke Constantine

Question: What type of musical piece did Chopin compose for his friend's ruling father?
Answer: a march

Question: Who wrote in 1818 about the popularity of Chopin?
Answer: Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz
Frédéric_Chopin

From September 1823 to 1826 Chopin attended the Warsaw Lyceum, where he received organ lessons from the Czech musician Wilhelm Würfel during his first year. In the autumn of 1826 he began a three-year course under the Silesian composer Józef Elsner at the Warsaw Conservatory, studying music theory, figured bass and composition.[n 3] Throughout this period he continued to compose and to give recitals in concerts and salons in Warsaw. He was engaged by the inventors of a mechanical organ, the "eolomelodicon", and on this instrument in May 1825 he performed his own improvisation and part of a concerto by Moscheles. The success of this concert led to an invitation to give a similar recital on the instrument before Tsar Alexander I, who was visiting Warsaw; the Tsar presented him with a diamond ring. At a subsequent eolomelodicon concert on 10 June 1825, Chopin performed his Rondo Op. 1. This was the first of his works to be commercially published and earned him his first mention in the foreign press, when the Leipzig Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung praised his "wealth of musical ideas".

Question: During what years did Frédéric visit the Warsaw Lyceum for lessons?
Answer: 1823 to 1826

Question: Who was Frédéric a student of involving music theory starting in 1826?
Answer: Józef Elsner

Question: What was the name of the mechanical organ Frédéric performed on during 1825?
Answer: eolomelodicon

Question: Which tsar did Frédéric perform for due to his success in previous concerts?
Answer: Alexander I

Question: On what date was Frédéric's first performance that earned international esteem?
Answer: 10 June 1825

Question: Who taught Chopin to play the organ?
Answer: Wilhelm Würfel

Question: Chopin had three years of lessons with whom?
Answer: Józef Elsner

Question: What instrument did Chopin play in front of Tsar Alexander I?
Answer: eolomelodicon

Question: What gift did Tsar Alexander I give to Chopin?
Answer: diamond ring

Question: What was the first of Chopin's works to gain international renown? 
Answer: Rondo Op. 1

Question: Who gave Chopin instruction on how to play the organ?
Answer: Wilhelm Würfel

Question: What was the name of the teacher of Chopin's three year course that began in the fall of 1826?
Answer: Józef Elsner

Question: What is th ename of the mechanical organ Chopin played in 1825?
Answer: eolomelodicon

Question: What did Tsar Alexander I give to Chopin?
Answer: a diamond ring.

Question: What is the title of his first commercially successful work?
Answer: Rondo Op. 1.
Frédéric_Chopin

During 1824–28 Chopin spent his vacations away from Warsaw, at a number of locales.[n 4] In 1824 and 1825, at Szafarnia, he was a guest of Dominik Dziewanowski, the father of a schoolmate. Here for the first time he encountered Polish rural folk music. His letters home from Szafarnia (to which he gave the title "The Szafarnia Courier"), written in a very modern and lively Polish, amused his family with their spoofing of the Warsaw newspapers and demonstrated the youngster's literary gift.

Question: Who was Frédéric a guest of during his visit of Szafarnia in 1824 and 1825?
Answer: Dominik Dziewanowski

Question: In which village did Frédéric first experience rural Polish folk music?
Answer: Szafarnia

Question: To whom did Frédéric write letters to during his stay in Szafarnia?
Answer: his family

Question: What did Frédéric write parodies of in his letters?
Answer: Warsaw newspapers

Question: During his vacation in 1824 and 1825 who did Chopin spend his vacation with?
Answer: Dominik Dziewanowski

Question: What type of music did Chopin discover for the first time while staying in Szafarnia?
Answer: Polish rural folk music

Question: What was the name of the person who hosted Chopin as a guest when he discovered Polish rural folk music?
Answer: Dominik Dziewanowski

Question: What was the title chopin gave of some spoof letters he wrote?
Answer: The Szafarnia Courier

Question: Where did Chopin spend his vacation in 1824 and 1825?
Answer: Szafarnia
Frédéric_Chopin

In 1827, soon after the death of Chopin's youngest sister Emilia, the family moved from the Warsaw University building, adjacent to the Kazimierz Palace, to lodgings just across the street from the university, in the south annex of the Krasiński Palace on Krakowskie Przedmieście,[n 5] where Chopin lived until he left Warsaw in 1830.[n 6] Here his parents continued running their boarding house for male students; the Chopin Family Parlour (Salonik Chopinów) became a museum in the 20th century. In 1829 the artist Ambroży Mieroszewski executed a set of portraits of Chopin family members, including the first known portrait of the composer.[n 7]

Question: During what year did Frédéric's youngest sister, Emilia, pass away?
Answer: 1827

Question: What street did Frédéric's family move to after the death of his youngest sister?
Answer: Krakowskie Przedmieście

Question: What year did Frédéric leave Warsaw after moving with his family to the south annex of Krasiński Palace?
Answer: 1830

Question: What did the Chopin's family business become in the 20th century?
Answer: a museum

Question: Which artist created the first known portrait of Frédéric?
Answer: Ambroży Mieroszewski

Question: What year did Chopin's sister Emilia die?
Answer: 1827

Question: What year did Chopin leave Warsaw?
Answer: 1830

Question: What was the Chopin family's business?
Answer: boarding house for male students

Question: What artist painted the Chopin family?
Answer: Ambroży Mieroszewski

Question: Who in Chopin's family died shortly before they moved in 1827?
Answer: sister Emilia

Question: What year did Chopin leave Warsaw?
Answer: 1830

Question: What was the Chopin boarding house called in English?
Answer: Chopin Family Parlour

Question: What artist made portraits of the Chopin family in 1829?
Answer: Ambroży Mieroszewski

Question: Was the Chopin family boarding house for male or female students?
Answer: male
Frédéric_Chopin

Four boarders at his parents' apartments became Chopin's intimates: Tytus Woyciechowski, Jan Nepomucen Białobłocki, Jan Matuszyński and Julian Fontana; the latter two would become part of his Paris milieu. He was friendly with members of Warsaw's young artistic and intellectual world, including Fontana, Józef Bohdan Zaleski and Stefan Witwicki. He was also attracted to the singing student Konstancja Gładkowska. In letters to Woyciechowski, he indicated which of his works, and even which of their passages, were influenced by his fascination with her; his letter of 15 May 1830 revealed that the slow movement (Larghetto) of his Piano Concerto No. 1 (in E minor) was secretly dedicated to her – "It should be like dreaming in beautiful springtime – by moonlight." His final Conservatory report (July 1829) read: "Chopin F., third-year student, exceptional talent, musical genius."

Question: Of the individuals that became intimate with Frédéric during their stay at the family apartments, which two became part of Frédéric's social environment in Paris?
Answer: Jan Matuszyński and Julian Fontana

Question: Which singer was cited specifically as someone Frédéric was attracted to?
Answer: Konstancja Gładkowska

Question: What four boys from his family's boarding house became friends with Chopin?
Answer: Tytus Woyciechowski, Jan Nepomucen Białobłocki, Jan Matuszyński and Julian Fontana

Question: Which singer did Chopin become fascinated with?
Answer: Konstancja Gładkowska

Question: Which of Chopin's works was unknowingly dedicated to Gladkowska?
Answer: Piano Concerto No. 1 (in E minor)

Question: When did Chopin receive his last Conservatory report?
Answer: July 1829

Question: Which two of Chopin's friends became part of his Paris milieu?
Answer: Jan Matuszyński and Julian Fontana

Question: What was the name of the singing student Chopin was attracted to?
Answer: Konstancja Gładkowska

Question: To whom did Chopin reveal in letters which parts of his work were about the singing student he was infatuated with?
Answer: Tytus Woyciechowski

Question: What musical piece had a Larghetto dedicated to the female singing student Chopin was infatuated with?
Answer: Piano Concerto No. 1 (in E minor)

Question: How many boarders of his family's boarding house became intimate friends with Chopin?
Answer: Four
Frédéric_Chopin

In September 1828 Chopin, while still a student, visited Berlin with a family friend, zoologist Feliks Jarocki, enjoying operas directed by Gaspare Spontini and attending concerts by Carl Friedrich Zelter, Felix Mendelssohn and other celebrities. On an 1829 return trip to Berlin, he was a guest of Prince Antoni Radziwiłł, governor of the Grand Duchy of Posen—himself an accomplished composer and aspiring cellist. For the prince and his pianist daughter Wanda, he composed his Introduction and Polonaise brillante in C major for cello and piano, Op. 3.

Question: Who did Frédéric visit Berlin with in September 1828?
Answer: Feliks Jarocki

Question: Which opera director did Frédéric see works of during his stay in Berlin?
Answer: Gaspare Spontini

Question: Who was Frédéric a guest of during his stay in Berlin in 1829?
Answer: Prince Antoni Radziwiłł

Question: What piece did Frédéric create specifically for the prince and the prince's daughter, Wanda?
Answer: Introduction and Polonaise brillante in C major for cello and piano, Op. 3

Question: When did Chopin visit Berlin?
Answer: September 1828

Question: With whom did Chopin go to Berlin?
Answer: Feliks Jarocki

Question: While in Berlin he saw the operatic work of who?
Answer: Gaspare Spontini

Question: In 1829 on a trip back to Berlin Chopin was a guest of who?
Answer: Prince Antoni Radziwiłł

Question: What piece did Chopin create for Prince Antoni?
Answer: Introduction and Polonaise brillante in C major for cello and piano, Op. 3

Question: What year did Chopin visit Berlin while still a student?
Answer: 1828

Question: Who did Chopin go to Berlin with?
Answer: Feliks Jarocki

Question: What did the person who Chopin went with to Berlin do for his work?
Answer: zoologist

Question: Who directed the operas they enjoyed in Berlin?
Answer: Gaspare Spontini

Question: What year did Chopin return to Berlin?
Answer: 1829
Frédéric_Chopin

Back in Warsaw that year, Chopin heard Niccolò Paganini play the violin, and composed a set of variations, Souvenir de Paganini. It may have been this experience which encouraged him to commence writing his first Études, (1829–32), exploring the capacities of his own instrument. On 11 August, three weeks after completing his studies at the Warsaw Conservatory, he made his debut in Vienna. He gave two piano concerts and received many favourable reviews—in addition to some commenting (in Chopin's own words) that he was "too delicate for those accustomed to the piano-bashing of local artists". In one of these concerts, he premiered his Variations on Là ci darem la mano, Op. 2 (variations on an aria from Mozart's opera Don Giovanni) for piano and orchestra. He returned to Warsaw in September 1829, where he premiered his Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21 on 17 March 1830.

Question: What did Frédéric compose after hearing Niccolò Paganini perform on the violin?
Answer: Souvenir de Paganini

Question: During what month did Frédéric make his first appearance in Vienna?
Answer: August

Question: How many piano concerts did Frédéric perform in Vienna during this time?
Answer: two

Question: On what date did Frédéric give his first performance of Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21?
Answer: 17 March 1830

Question: What did Chopin compose after hearing Niccolo Paganini?
Answer: Souvenir de Paganini

Question: Where did Chopin debut after completing his studies?
Answer: Vienna

Question: What piece did Chopin debut after returning to Warsaw?
Answer: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21

Question: When did Chopin return to Warsaw?
Answer: September 1829

Question: Why did some critics say that Chopin was too delicate?
Answer: accustomed to the piano-bashing of local artists

Question: Who did Chopin hear play violin in 1829 that prompted him to write a composisition?
Answer: Niccolò Paganini

Question: Where did Chopin make his debut after completing his education?
Answer: Vienna

Question: How many public performances did Chopin do where he made his debut after completing his education?
Answer: two

Question: How many weeks after completing school was it before Chopin made his public debut?
Answer: three
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Chopin's successes as a composer and performer opened the door to western Europe for him, and on 2 November 1830, he set out, in the words of Zdzisław Jachimecki, "into the wide world, with no very clearly defined aim, forever." With Woyciechowski, he headed for Austria, intending to go on to Italy. Later that month, in Warsaw, the November 1830 Uprising broke out, and Woyciechowski returned to Poland to enlist. Chopin, now alone in Vienna, was nostalgic for his homeland, and wrote to a friend, "I curse the moment of my departure." When in September 1831 he learned, while travelling from Vienna to Paris, that the uprising had been crushed, he expressed his anguish in the pages of his private journal: "Oh God! ... You are there, and yet you do not take vengeance!" Jachimecki ascribes to these events the composer's maturing "into an inspired national bard who intuited the past, present and future of his native Poland."

Question: On what date did Frédéric begin his journey into Western Europe?
Answer: 2 November 1830

Question: Which country did Frédéric go to first after setting out for Western Europe?
Answer: Austria

Question: In what year did his companion Woyciechowski depart to Poland to enlist for the uprising in Warsaw?
Answer: 1830

Question: What historian commented that the events involving Frédéric's friend in Poland contributed to his maturing?
Answer: Zdzisław Jachimecki

Question: Who said that Chopin set out "into the wide world, with no very clearly defined aim, forever?"
Answer: Zdzisław Jachimecki

Question: Who did Chopin leave for Austria with?
Answer: Woyciechowski

Question: Where did Chopin intend to go after Austria?
Answer: Italy

Question: Woyciechowski left Chopin to enlist in what?
Answer: the November 1830 Uprising

Question: What geographicla region was opened for Chopin due to his composing and performances?
Answer: western Europe

Question: When Chopin started to take his music to the world, what is the last name of the person who went with him to Austria?
Answer: Woyciechowski

Question: What year did the uprising begin in Warsaw?
Answer: 1830

Question: What were the words Chopin wrote to a friend when he was alone and homesick?
Answer: "I curse the moment of my departure."

Question: What year did Chopin learn that the uprising in Warsaw was crushed?
Answer: 1831
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Chopin arrived in Paris in late September 1831; he would never return to Poland, thus becoming one of many expatriates of the Polish Great Emigration. In France he used the French versions of his given names, and after receiving French citizenship in 1835, he travelled on a French passport. However, Chopin remained close to his fellow Poles in exile as friends and confidants and he never felt fully comfortable speaking French. Chopin's biographer Adam Zamoyski writes that he never considered himself to be French, despite his father's French origins, and always saw himself as a Pole.

Question: What event was Frédéric a part of when he arrived in Paris during the later part of September in 1831?
Answer: the Polish Great Emigration

Question: What version of Frédéric's birth name did he begin using after arriving in France?
Answer: French

Question: In what year did Frédéric officially acquire French citizenship?
Answer: 1835

Question: What were the two kinds of relationships stated as Frédéric having with his fellow Poland natives in exile?
Answer: friends and confidants

Question: What nationality is stated as the one Frédéric felt most identified by?
Answer: Polish

Question: When did Chopin reach Paris?
Answer: September 1831

Question: By not going back to Poland Chopin became part of what?
Answer: Polish Great Emigration

Question: In what year did Chopin become a French citizen?
Answer: 1835

Question: What is the name of Chopin's biographer?
Answer: Adam Zamoyski

Question: After 1831, what country did Chopin never return to?
Answer: Poland

Question: What country's passport did he have from 1835?
Answer: France

Question: What language was Chopin never completely at ease speaking?
Answer: French

Question: What biographer of Chopin wrote that Chopin never considered himself French?
Answer: Adam Zamoyski

Question: Due to the numbers of expatriates of Poland after the uprising, what did it become to be known as?
Answer: Polish Great Emigration
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In Paris, Chopin encountered artists and other distinguished figures, and found many opportunities to exercise his talents and achieve celebrity. During his years in Paris he was to become acquainted with, among many others, Hector Berlioz, Franz Liszt, Ferdinand Hiller, Heinrich Heine, Eugène Delacroix, and Alfred de Vigny. Chopin was also acquainted with the poet Adam Mickiewicz, principal of the Polish Literary Society, some of whose verses he set as songs.

Question: In what city did Frédéric achieve celebrity status?
Answer: Paris

Question: Who was the principal of the Polish Literary Society that Frédéric became acquainted with?
Answer: Adam Mickiewicz

Question: What did Frédéric create from verses of the poet Adam Mickiewicz?
Answer: songs

Question: What poet did Chopin use verses from for songs?
Answer: Adam Mickiewicz

Question: What people did Chopin meet while in Paris?
Answer: Hector Berlioz, Franz Liszt, Ferdinand Hiller, Heinrich Heine, Eugène Delacroix, and Alfred de Vigny

Question: What was the name of the poet Chopin became acquainted with in Paris?
Answer: Adam Mickiewicz

Question: What position did the poet who Chopin knew in Paris hold?
Answer: principal of the Polish Literary Society
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Two Polish friends in Paris were also to play important roles in Chopin's life there. His fellow student at the Warsaw Conservatory, Julian Fontana, had originally tried unsuccessfully to establish himself in England; Albert Grzymała, who in Paris became a wealthy financier and society figure, often acted as Chopin's adviser and "gradually began to fill the role of elder brother in [his] life." Fontana was to become, in the words of Michałowski and Samson, Chopin's "general factotum and copyist".

Question: Which friend of Frédéric failed to achieve success in England?
Answer: Julian Fontana

Question: Who was Frédéric's trusted adviser while in Paris?
Answer: Albert Grzymała

Question: What familial role was Albert Grzymała compared to in regards to Frédéric?
Answer: elder brother

Question: Who is stated as a jack of all trades in service to Frédéric?
Answer: Julian Fontana

Question: What nationality were the two friends who served as a pivotal influence in Frédéric's life while in Paris?
Answer: Polish

Question: Julian Fontana tried to find his way where before moving to Paris?
Answer: England

Question: Where did Julian Fontana fail to get established?
Answer: England

Question: Who did Chopin know that became rich in Paris?
Answer: Albert Grzymała

Question: Which friend of Chopin became like an older brother to him?
Answer: Albert Grzymała

Question: Which friend took on the role of several jobs to help Chopin including copyist?
Answer: Julian Fontana

Question: Where were Chopin and Fontana students together?
Answer: Warsaw Conservatory
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At the end of 1831, Chopin received the first major endorsement from an outstanding contemporary when Robert Schumann, reviewing the Op. 2 Variations in the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung (his first published article on music), declared: "Hats off, gentlemen! A genius." On 26 February 1832 Chopin gave a debut Paris concert at the Salle Pleyel which drew universal admiration. The critic François-Joseph Fétis wrote in the Revue et gazette musicale: "Here is a young man who ... taking no model, has found, if not a complete renewal of piano music, ... an abundance of original ideas of a kind to be found nowhere else ..." After this concert, Chopin realized that his essentially intimate keyboard technique was not optimal for large concert spaces. Later that year he was introduced to the wealthy Rothschild banking family, whose patronage also opened doors for him to other private salons (social gatherings of the aristocracy and artistic and literary elite). By the end of 1832 Chopin had established himself among the Parisian musical elite, and had earned the respect of his peers such as Hiller, Liszt, and Berlioz. He no longer depended financially upon his father, and in the winter of 1832 he began earning a handsome income from publishing his works and teaching piano to affluent students from all over Europe. This freed him from the strains of public concert-giving, which he disliked.

Question: Who gave Frédéric his first significant public approval in regards to his compositions?
Answer: Robert Schumann

Question: On what date did Frédéric give his first performance at the Salle Pleyel?
Answer: 26 February 1832

Question: What is stated as a hindrance for Frédéric's ability to perform in large concert spaces?
Answer: intimate keyboard technique

Question: Who did Frédéric rely upon financially before earning a great income from his works?
Answer: his father

Question: From whom did Chopin receive his first big endorsement?
Answer: Robert Schumann

Question: When did Chopin debut at Salle Pleyel ?
Answer: 26 February 1832

Question: What affluent family did Chopin gain a patronage from?
Answer: Rothschild

Question: When did Chopin receive his first major endorsement from Robert Schumann?
Answer: 1831

Question: What did Chopin realize was not ideal for larger spaces after his first successful concert in Paris?
Answer: keyboard technique

Question: Once Chopin stopped performing concerts, how did he earn his income?
Answer: publishing his works and teaching piano to affluent students
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Chopin seldom performed publicly in Paris. In later years he generally gave a single annual concert at the Salle Pleyel, a venue that seated three hundred. He played more frequently at salons, but preferred playing at his own Paris apartment for small groups of friends. The musicologist Arthur Hedley has observed that "As a pianist Chopin was unique in acquiring a reputation of the highest order on the basis of a minimum of public appearances—few more than thirty in the course of his lifetime." The list of musicians who took part in some of his concerts provides an indication of the richness of Parisian artistic life during this period. Examples include a concert on 23 March 1833, in which Chopin, Liszt and Hiller performed (on pianos) a concerto by J.S. Bach for three keyboards; and, on 3 March 1838, a concert in which Chopin, his pupil Adolphe Gutmann, Charles-Valentin Alkan, and Alkan's teacher Joseph Zimmermann performed Alkan's arrangement, for eight hands, of two movements from Beethoven's 7th symphony. Chopin was also involved in the composition of Liszt's Hexameron; he wrote the sixth (and final) variation on Bellini's theme. Chopin's music soon found success with publishers, and in 1833 he contracted with Maurice Schlesinger, who arranged for it to be published not only in France but, through his family connections, also in Germany and England.

Question: What was Frédéric's favorite environment to perform in?
Answer: his own Paris apartment for small groups of friends

Question: What instrument did Frédéric play in a performance on 23 March 1833?
Answer: pianos

Question: Chopin gave a yearly performance where?
Answer: Salle Pleyel

Question: Chopin worked with Liszt on what piece?
Answer: Hexameron

Question: In 1833 with whom with Chopin work to get his music published?
Answer: Maurice Schlesinger

Question: What is the name of Chopin's pupil who performed with him?
Answer: Adolphe Gutmann

Question: Where did Chopin prefer to play for people?
Answer: apartment

Question: On March 23, 1833, who headlined and performed with Chopin at a concert?
Answer: Liszt and Hiller

Question: Who did Chopin contract with for publishing his music?
Answer: Maurice Schlesinger
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In the spring of 1834, Chopin attended the Lower Rhenish Music Festival in Aix-la-Chapelle with Hiller, and it was there that Chopin met Felix Mendelssohn. After the festival, the three visited Düsseldorf, where Mendelssohn had been appointed musical director. They spent what Mendelssohn described as "a very agreeable day", playing and discussing music at his piano, and met Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow, director of the Academy of Art, and some of his eminent pupils such as Lessing, Bendemann, Hildebrandt and Sohn. In 1835 Chopin went to Carlsbad, where he spent time with his parents; it was the last time he would see them. On his way back to Paris, he met old friends from Warsaw, the Wodzińskis. He had made the acquaintance of their daughter Maria in Poland five years earlier, when she was eleven. This meeting prompted him to stay for two weeks in Dresden, when he had previously intended to return to Paris via Leipzig. The sixteen-year-old girl's portrait of the composer is considered, along with Delacroix's, as among Chopin's best likenesses. In October he finally reached Leipzig, where he met Schumann, Clara Wieck and Felix Mendelssohn, who organised for him a performance of his own oratorio St. Paul, and who considered him "a perfect musician". In July 1836 Chopin travelled to Marienbad and Dresden to be with the Wodziński family, and in September he proposed to Maria, whose mother Countess Wodzińska approved in principle. Chopin went on to Leipzig, where he presented Schumann with his G minor Ballade. At the end of 1836 he sent Maria an album in which his sister Ludwika had inscribed seven of his songs, and his 1835 Nocturne in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 1. The anodyne thanks he received from Maria proved to be the last letter he was to have from her.

Question: Who did Frédéric meet in the spring of 1834 at the Lower Rhenish Music Festival?
Answer: Felix Mendelssohn

Question: What two activities did Frédéric do while visiting for a day in Düsseldorf with Mendelssohn and Hiller?
Answer: playing and discussing music

Question: Who was the director of the Academy of Art that Frédéric met while in Düsseldorf?
Answer: Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow

Question: Where were Frédéric's parents located at when he saw them for the final time in 1835?
Answer: Carlsbad

Question: Where did Chopin meet Felix Mendelssohn?
Answer: the Lower Rhenish Music Festival

Question: Who did Chopin attend the Lower Rhenish Music Festival with?
Answer: Hiller

Question: In 1835 where did Chopin and his parents visit?
Answer: Carlsbad

Question: When did Chopin propose marriage to Maria Wodziński?
Answer: July 1836

Question: Who was Maria's mother?
Answer: Countess Wodzińska

Question: Who did Chopin meet at a music festival early in 1834?
Answer: Felix Mendelssohn

Question: Where did Chopin and Hiller go with the person Chopin met in the spring of 1834?
Answer: Düsseldorf

Question: What was Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow position?
Answer: director of the Academy of Art

Question: What was the first name of the girl Chopin proposed to?
Answer: Maria
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Although it is not known exactly when Chopin first met Liszt after arriving in Paris, on 12 December 1831 he mentioned in a letter to his friend Woyciechowski that "I have met Rossini, Cherubini, Baillot, etc.—also Kalkbrenner. You would not believe how curious I was about Herz, Liszt, Hiller, etc." Liszt was in attendance at Chopin's Parisian debut on 26 February 1832 at the Salle Pleyel, which led him to remark: "The most vigorous applause seemed not to suffice to our enthusiasm in the presence of this talented musician, who revealed a new phase of poetic sentiment combined with such happy innovation in the form of his art."

Question: Who was the recipient of Frédéric's letter he wrote on 12 December 1831?
Answer: Woyciechowski

Question: What are the three names stated in Frédéric's letter that he had shown interest and curiosity in?
Answer: Herz, Liszt, Hiller

Question: Who is stated as being in attendance of Frédéric's first performance at the Salle Pleyel on 26 February 1832?
Answer: Liszt

Question: What was the date that LIszt first saw Chopin perform?
Answer: 26 February 1832

Question: Which friend received the letter in which Chopin referenced Liszt?
Answer: Woyciechowski

Question: Where was Chopin's first concert in Paris held?
Answer: the Salle Pleyel