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(b. Zelazowa Wola, ?1 March 1810; d. Paris,17 Oct 1849).
Polish composer. The son of French emigre father (a schoolteacher working in Poland) and a cultured Polish mother, he grew up in Warsaw, taking childhood music lessons (in Bach and the Viennese Classics) from Wojciech Zywny and J?ósef Elsner before entering the Conservatory (1826-9). By this time he had performed in local salons and composed several rondos, polonaises and mazurkas. Public and critical acclaim increased during the years 1829-30 when he gave concerts in Vienna and Warsaw, but his despair over the political repression in Poland, coupled with his musical ambitions, led him to move to Paris in 1831. There, with practical help from Kalkbrenner and Pleyel, praise from Liszt, Fetis and Schumann and introductions into the highest society, he quickly established himself as a private teacher and salon performer, his legendary artist's image being enhanced by frail health (he had tuberculosis), attractive looks, sensitive playing, a courteous manner and the piquancy attaching to self-exile.
Of his several romantic affairs, the most talked about was that with the novelist George Sand (Aurore Dudevant) - though whether he was truly drawn to women must remain in doubt. Between 1838 and 1847 their relationship, with a strong element of the maternal on her side, coincided with one of his most productive creative periods. He gave few public concerts, though his playing was much praised, and he published much of his best music simultaneously in Paris, London and Leipzig. The breach with Sand was followed by a rapid deterioration in his health and a long visit to Britain (1848). His funeral at the Madeleine was attended by nearly 3000 people.
No great composer has devoted himself as exclusively to the piano as Chopin. By all accounts an inspired improviser, he composed while playing, writing down his thoughts only with difficulty. But he was no mere dreamer - his development can be seen as an ever more sophisticated improvisation on the classical principle of departure and return. For the concert-giving years 1828-32 he wrote brilliant virtuoso pieces (e.g. rondos) and music for piano and orchestra; the teaching side of his career is represented by the studies, preludes, nocturnes, waltzes, impromptus and mazurkas, polished pieces of moderate difficulty. The large-scale works - the later polonaises, scherzos, ballades, sonatas, the Barcarolle and the dramatic Polonaise-fantaisie - he wrote for himself and a small circle of admirers. Apart from the national feeling in the Polish dances, and possibly some narrative background to the ballades, he intended notably few references to literary, pictorial or autobiographical ideas.
Chopin is admired above all for his great originality in exploiting the piano. While his own playing style was famous for its subtlety and restraint, its exquisite delicacy in contrast with the spectacular feats of pianism then reigning in

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Fanta Pf Fa- / Rubinstein Artu (special order)
3562898122 chopin frederic: fanta pf fa- / rubinstein artur barcode: 3562898122.

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Chopin Frederic

Fantasie - Impromptu (special order)
pilz 65012x35 cd rare! cond: mint- title: fantasie - impromptu classical.

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$29

Chopin Frederic

Frederic Chopin (classic Digit (special order)
import 16 songs - polonaise cis, walzer a moll, walzer des dur, walzer f moll, nocturne b moll, prelude g dur, prelude h moll, prelude a dur, prelude fis moll, prelude es moll, prelude des dur, prelud.

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$99

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F. Chopin: Piano Works [import
year: 2007; label: royale; tracks: 1. piano concerto no 2 in f minor; 2. twelve etudes; 3. polonaises; 4. mazurkas (op 6); 5. mazurkas op 7); 6. mazurkas (op 17); 7. mazurkas (op 24); 8. mazurkas (op.

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Fantasie - Impromptu
pilz 65012x35 cd rare! cond: mint- title: fantasie - impromptu classical.

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$10

Chopin, frederic

Favourites: Polonaisen/mazurke

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Chopin, frederic

Frederic Chopin (classic Digit
import 16 songs - polonaise cis, walzer a moll, walzer des dur, walzer f moll, nocturne b moll, prelude g dur, prelude h moll, prelude a dur, prelude fis moll, prelude es moll, prelude des dur, prelud.

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Chopin, frederic / Ear

Four Scherzos And Ballades

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$22

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Four Ballades/sonata In B Mino

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$22

Chopin, frederic: Lipa

Frederic Chopin: Etudes Op. 10

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$8 - $10

Frederic Chopin

Fantaisie Op. 49 - Nouvelles E

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$53 - $139

Frédéric Chopin

Frédéric Chopin
falcon, l-st-7023, ger, vittorio de col worldclassrecs 1 .

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Frederic Chopin: World Famous
year: 1990; label: pilz .

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Feeling Chopin
year: 2008; label: drycastle .

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$26

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Frederic Chopin

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Frédéric Chopin: The Original
year: 2007; label: dal segno .

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$14 - $42

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Frederic Chopin: Polonaises [h
year: 2004; label: vanguard classics .

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$121

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Frédéric Chopin: Mazurkas, Val
year: 2007; label: alpha .

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$23 - $40

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Frederic Chopin: Scherzos &
year: 1990; label: sony .

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$8 - $24

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Famous Swedish Pianists [impor
year: 2000; label: swedish society .

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$10 - $53

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Favorite Encores [extra Tracks
year: 2004; label: sony .

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$13

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Favourite Chopin
year: 2002; label: class. for pleas. us; tracks: 1. waltz no. 1 in e flat major, op. 18 - 'grand valse brillante' - witold malcuzynski; 2. nocturne no. 2 in e flat major, op. 9 no. 2 - daniel adni; 3.

1 listed

$10

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Firkusny Plays Mussorgsky, Sch
year: 2008; label: bbc legends .

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$19

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François-rené Duchable Plays C
year: 2003; label: virgin france .

1 listed

$26

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Frederic Chopin: Nocturnes Pol

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Frédéric Chopin: Piano Concert
year: 1990; label: polygram records .

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$12 - $13

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Frederic Chopin: Piano Concert
year: 1990; label: polygram records .

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$13

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Frédéric Chopin: Piano Works [
year: 2002; label: angel records .

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$11 - $62

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Frederic Chopin: Portrait [cla

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$19

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Frédéric Chopin: Tristesse
year: 2007; label: naive .

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French Piano Album
year: 1994; label: proarte .

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$13

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Frick Collection Recital [orig
year: 1999; label: rca .

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Friedman Plays Mendelssohn, Ch
year: 1999; label: biddulph records; tracks: 1. song without words: 'hunting song' in a op.19 no.3; 2. song without words: 'venetian gondola song' in g op.19 no.6; 3. song without words: 'venetian go.

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$36

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Funeral Music
year: 1991; label: capitol .

1 listed

$15

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Freddy Kempf Plays Chopin
year: 2001; label: bis .

1 listed

$18

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Frederic Chopin: Four Scherzi/
year: 1992; label: chandos .

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Frédéric Chopin: Préludes, Op.
year: 1996; label: berlin classics .

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$55

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Frederic Chopin: Sonatas Nos.
year: 1990; label: sony; tracks: 4. sonata no. 2 in b-flat minor, op. 35/iv. finale: presto (instrumental) 1:25; 6. sonata no. 3 in b minor, op. 58/ii. scherzo: molto vivace (instrumental) 2:33.

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$11 - $24

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Fredric Chopin/world Famous Pi

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$30

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Firkusny Plays Chopin (firkusn
year: 1996; label: emi .

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$19

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Frederic Chopin: Mazurkas For
year: 1990; label: polygram records .

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$8 - $24

Frédéric Chopin (compo

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849, Pr

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$41

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Favorite Chopin [extra Tracks]
year: 2004; label: sony .

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$15

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Frederic Chopin - Great Compos
chopin / moscow philharmonic orch / kitayenko - great composers (3pc) / (bonc ws dol dts box) upc: 842977024159. FOREIGN MEDIA GROUP 882006

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$15 - $52

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Fredric Chopin/world Famous Pi
domestic cd in a standard cd case .

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$35

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Frederic Chopin: Vladimir Hor
urania.

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Frederic Chopin: Mazur

Fifty-one Mazurkas. Kistner (m (special order)
chopin, frederic (artist) pages :160. Dover Publications

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