Fréderíc Chopin. Nocturne Op. 9 N° 2
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Date: 2021-10-05

Frédéric Chopin Nocturne Op. 9 N° 2
Frédéric Chopin was born on March 1, 1810 in Zelazowa Wola, near Warsaw, in a beautiful bourgeois house that belonged to Count Skarbek.
The father of the Polish musician, Nicolas Chopin, of French origin, was his administrator and he married the lady-in-waiting of the Condensa, Tekla Justyna Krzyzanowska. He was the second of the four children of the marriage. Frédéric Chopin was almost exactly a contemporary of Mendelssohn, Schumann, and Liszt.
He began studying the piano at the age of four and at eight he was already giving a private concert in Warsaw. At the age of twelve, Chopin had already performed in the salons of many Polish aristocrats and created original compositions. Later he studied harmony and counterpoint at the conservatory of his city.

His first published work of him dates from 1817.

He gave his first concerts in 1829, in the city of Vienna.
On November 1, 1830, just a month before the Polish insurrection, he left Warsaw, he will never return to his homeland. From 1831 he lived in Paris, where he worked as a teacher, pianist and composer. Among his circle of friends are Liszt, Berlioz, Rossini, Bellini or Mendelssohn.
Between 1834 and 1835 he traveled through the Rhineland, Czechoslovakia, and Germany. He unsuccessfully claimed the hand of the young Maria Wodzinska.

In 1836 he had his first meeting in Paris with Aurore Dudevant, a French writer six years his senior and better known by her pseudonym George Sand, a relationship that marked the last years of his life.

Practically all of his compositions are for piano. Although an expatriate, he was always loyal to Poland, a country torn by wars; his mazurkas reflect the rhythms and melodies of Polish folklore.

His music is characterized by sweet and original melodies, refined harmonies, delicate rhythms and poetic beauty. Frédéric Chopin elevated the mazurka (he wrote 60) and the polonaise (13) to the category of concert music. The composer's sources were his own life and the tragic history of his country.


He notably influenced other composers, such as the pianist and composer Franz Liszt and the French composer Claude Debussy.
His published works by him include 55 mazurkas, 27 studies, 24 preludes, 19 nocturnes, 13 polonaises, and 3 piano sonatas. Among his other compositions, the youth Concerts stand out, in E minor and F minor opus 11 and opus 21, respectively, as well as a sonata for cello and piano and 17 songs.

In 1838 he fell ill with tuberculosis and moved with George Sand to the island of Majorca in search of a restorative climate: it could not be, they had a cold and rainy winter. De Mallorca la Sand left A winter in Mallorca, and Chopin the Preludes of him. There, in the Carthusian monastery of Valldemosa, Sand cared for him in his illness until the continuous disputes between the two led to his breakup in 1847.

From then on, his concert activity was limited to various recitals in France, Scotland and Great Britain. According to Sand's testimony and some of Chopin's own letters, among other documents of the time, the composer acknowledged that he suffered from hallucinations. In the middle of a sonata in a private English room in 1848, he had been forced to leave the room to recover from the sight of the creatures emerging from his piano. The opium-based laudanum that Chopin consumed is one of the possible explanations for his hallucinations.

Frédéric Chopin died at 12, Place Vendòme in Paris, on October 17, 1849, a victim of tuberculosis. He was buried in the Parisian cemetery of Père-Lachaise. Complying with Chopin's wish, his heart rests in Warsaw, in the Church of the Holy Cross.

165 years after the death of the pianist, medical experts announced that, after studying his heart, they confirmed that his death was caused by tuberculosis. According to information released, his heart is much wider than normal, suggesting another lung disease in addition to tuberculosis.

Chopin played the piano in the dark throughout his life. He would blow out the candles, and even when he performed at an event or party, he would ask to turn off the light in the room. He only gave about thirty concerts in his life and preferred to perform in small gatherings.
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