Frédéric Chopin

Frédéric Chopin (jina la Kipoland: Fryderyk ; 22 Februari 1810 kulingana na cheti cha kuzaliwa - 17 Oktoba 1849; pengine, tarehe 1 Machi au 10 Machi zimetajwa kama siku yake ya kuzaliwa) alikuwa mtunzi wa Opera na mpigaji kinanda mashuri kutoka nchini Poland. Ni mtunzi muhimu kabisa kwa nchi ya Poland. Ingawaje kuna baadhi ya tungo zake zilikuwa vigumu sana kuzipiga, na zilibahatika kuwa moja kati ya tungo zilizowahi kutungwa vema.

Alizaliwa katika kijiji kidogo cha Żelazowa Wola karibu na Warshawa wakati sehemu ile ilikuwa chini ya utawala wa Urusi. Baba alikuwa Nicolas Chopin Mfaransa aliyeishi Poland kama mwalimu na mamake Justyna Krzyżanowska aliyetoka katika familia ya makabaila maskini wa Poland. Frederic alianza mapema kupiga kiananda akaonyesha uwezo mkubwa. Alipofikia umri wa miaka 20 alisafiri Ufaransa alipotoa maonyesho ya muziki yake. 1830 baba alimshauri asirudi Poland kwa sababu ya uasi wa Wapoland dhidi ya utawala wa Kirusi. Baada ya kukandamizwa kwa uasi huu Frederic alibaki nje ya nchi yake ya kuzaliwa akaendelea kuishi na kufanya kazi mjini Paris hasa.

Ni hapa Paris ya kwamba alikuwa maarufu kama mtunga muziki. Alianzisha mapenzi na wanawake mbalimbali lakini hakubahatika kufunga ndoa. Afya yake ilikuwa hafifu muda wote akafa mjini Paris kwa sababu ya ugonjwa wa kifua kikuu mwaka 1849 akiwa na umri wa miaka 39 pekee. Alizikwa Ufaransa lakini moyo wake ulipelekwa Poland na kuzikwa huko katika kanisa mjini Warshawa.

Viungo vya nje 
 Chopin Music  - Website and forum dedicated to the music of Chopin, including recordings, sheet music and image galleries.
 Chopin: the poet of the piano - A favourite Chopin place since 1999 with biography, images, complete music and score, discussion forum, work list and analysis, quizzes and contests, noted interpreters/great pianists...
 Internet Chopin Information Centre , Chopin portal including calendar, catalogues, other information about Chopin, Chopin on the Web, and pianists' biographical notes.
Wasifu
 Online biography of Chopin 
 Brief Chopin essay at Classical Music Pages 
 The Frederick Chopin Society  in Warsaw. Contains a biography, an outline of Chopin's works and musical style and pictures of original manuscripts.
 [http://www.chopinmusic.net/en/biography/ Biography]  with Image Gallery and Citations from Chopin Music 
 Fryderyk Chopin: Poet of the Piano 
 Biographies (Project Gutenberg e-texts):
 Life of Chopin, by Franz Liszt 
 Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician, by Frederick Niecks 
 Chopin: The Man and his Music, by James Huneker 
 
Tungo za muziki
 Free Sheet Music  from Chopin Music 
 www.kreusch-sheet-music.net Chopin's complete piano works
 
 Chopin scores  from Mutopia Project
 
 Chopin Early Editions, a collection of over 400 first and early printed editions of musical compositions by Frédéric Chopin published before 1881.
Baadhi ya rekodi
 Performances by Michael Sayers: Preludes Op. 28 Nos. 1 and 20 
 Performances by Donald Betts: 3 ballades, 3 études, 2 nocturnes, 1 mazurka
 Performances by Paul Cantrell from In the Hands
 Performances by Alberto Cobo: Sonata #3, Ballade #1 & Fantasie-Impromptu, Sonata #2, Scherzo #2, Prelude #16
 Free MIDI Downloads  from Chopin Music 
 Various performers from PianoParadise (some links are broken)
 MIDI files from Kunst der Fuge
 Preludes No. 4 and No. 6 arranged for voices, guitar, and bass by the John Link Project
 Performances of works by Frédéric Chopin in MP3 and MIDI formats at Logos Virtual Library
 Artanhime  - Chopin's mp3 Collection.
 Free Chopin Downloads (MP3 and WMA)
 the original Chopin  Chopin as played by Angela Lear from autograph manuscripts. "Hear what Chopin really intended" BBC Music Magazine; "...Her Chopin recitals were altogether exceptional for perfect interpretation and maximum faithfulness to Chopin's intentions " Le Matin.
Mengineyo
 The Chopin Project
 University of Michigan Chopin Project 
 International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition 
 Chopin2010 a/k/a "The Chopin Currency" - a daily compendium of Chopiniana: news, reviews, videos, blogs, and more leading up to the Chopin Bicentennial in 2010
 Valldemossa, Majorca small town whose major asset is the remains of The Royal Chartreuse of Jesus Nazareth where Chopin lived for a short period with George Sand (the memories of this period are recorded in her book "Winter in Majorca") in 1838-39.
 The International Foundation Can Mossenya - Friends of Jorge Luis Borges  Historic estate, a significant part of The Royal Chartreuse of Jesus of Nazareth.
 The safekeeping of a large collection of original Chopin manuscripts, including Concerto in F-minor among a total of 49 compositions and other priceless Polish art treasures in Canada during World War II, is documented by new research in 2004-2005 which was published in Chopin in the World''.
 Chopin and The Nightingale is a dramatic reading with music in six acts, written by Cecilia and Jens Jorgensen for narrator, two sopranos and piano. It enacts the true-life romance of Chopin and Jenny Lind, which happens to resemble "The Nightingale" story of Hans Christian Andersen. When Chopin dies of tuberculosis in the arms of Jenny Lind, she decides to devote the rest of her life to paying tribute to his music. "Good Morning!", says the emperor / composer the next day. Performed - to celebrate the new Europe and World TB Day - at Brussels (2003), Warsaw (2004), Toronto (2005) and New York State (2008).

Watunzi wa Poland
Wanamuziki wa Poland
Watunzi wa Romantik
Waliozaliwa 1810
Waliofariki 1849