Franz Chopin Research Paper

In Nocturne in D flat Major, Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) creates a complex work that consists of complicated harmonies and rhythmic motives. These two components are interwoven to build elaborate themes which lead to a melodic design that Chopin is known for. The piece has multiple key elements that combine to form this expressive work for piano, such as thematic growth. Various themes are introduced in the work and as Chopin develops them, they are barely recognizable. Other important elements in the creation of the nocturne are register and pitch. Register provides support for the harmonies which in turn serve as the foundation on which the piece is built.

Johannes Brahms was born in Germany in 1833. He was a musical child prodigy! Luckily, his father recognized his talent and helped teach him music. Brahms got jobs playing in bars and taverns around Hamburg. In his teenage years he focused on dance music which he played every night as part of his job. However, since Brahms disliked wasting time he propped a book up and read while he played piano. When Brahms was 20 he met Robert Schumann, who called Brahms a genius! Eventually Brahms became one of the most famous composers of his day, with word of his music spreading through his home country and the many surrounding it. Brahms music brought warm and rich romantic music to the classical age. However, Brahms was quite self critical and often did

Peter Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer who was born in Vyatka, Russia on May 7 1840. He began piano at the early age of 5, when he was 10 he attended the Imperial School of Jurisprudence. At the age of 14 his mother died. Five years later he honored his parents death by taking up a burera clerk post with the Ministry of Justice, it was there he found that music intrigued him. When he reached the age of 21 he took attended music lessons at the Russian Musical Society. After a few months he enrolled in the St. Petersburg Conservatory where he was the first composition student and gave private lessons. A few years later in 1863 he moved to Moscow and became a professor of harmony at the Moscow Conservatory. Starting in 1865 Peter began his

Then without awakening him Manka had him carried out to the wagon that was waiting to take her home to her father”(Heath Int. Anonymous p.21). The next morning when the burgomaster opened his eyes, he found himself lying in the shepherd's cottage and in the story of an hour” (Heath Int. Anonymous p.21) While in The story of an hour has the ironic tone for the tragically ending of the story the author stated, “When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease of the joy that kills”. (Heath Int. Chopin p.24) In both stories, the narrator point of view speaks in the third

It is important to consider the world and society at the time Chopin began to write and publish her short stories and books. To really gain an appreciation and understanding for her works, one must consider the circumstances surrounding the author. The different expectations of the roles of men and women and the segregating line between the races. Chopin’s work would be

Frederic Chopin was a well known Polish pianist born in 1810, and died in 1849 (Libbey). He wrote countless pieces, mazurkas, concertos, preludes, nocturnes, polonaises, and sonatas. Almost all the pieces he composed were just for the piano. He had his own unique style that can be described as poetic and lyrical (Hamilton). His songs could be light and almost dream like and yet dark and filled with emotion at the same time (Bellman). Known as "The Poet of the Piano", he is still considered one of the most important composers from the Romantic period, and it has been said that no one could understood the piano quite like him (Bellman).

Chopin soon began studying the theory of music, figured bass and composition at the Warsaw High School of Music, which was both part of the Conservatory and, at the same time, connected with Warsaw University. Its head was the composer Józef Elsner. Chopin, however, did not attend the piano class. Aware of the exceptional nature of Chopin's talent, Elsner allowed him, in accordance with his personality and temperament, to concentrate on piano music but was unbending as regards theoretical subjects, in particular counterpoint. Chopin, endowed by nature with magnificent melodic invention, ease of free improvisation and an inclination towards brilliant effects and perfect harmony, gained in Elsner's school a solid grounding, discipline, and precision of construction, as well as an understanding of the meaning and logic of each note. During this period of time, Frederic composed a series of extended works, and after the third year of his studies Elsner wrote in a report: "Chopin, Frederic, third year student, amazing talent, musical genius".

The life of Kate Chopin started in a world of women. Following the tragic death of her father, the author lived with her mother, grandmother and great grandmother. Perhaps this upbringing influenced her writing style. The late 1800’s was a boisterous time in the United States. The cultural scene of the country was changing quickly, and for the first time, women brought private and personal issues into the public domain. This writer portrays the lives of women in a world controlled by male dominance while developing their own individual personalities. Her characters were usually socially accepted, but rebelled against the social codes of the day. The Victorian time period that shaped Chopin’s life, was the subject matter used in many of her

The notorious Frederic Chopin was born in Poland in 1810.  He was seen as the greatest Polish composer, and among the very greatest composers for the piano. Chopin was one of the extremely rare child prodigies, along with Mozart and Mendelssohn.  At the age of 7, he had already written two polonaises (in G minor and B flat major).  A piano professor at Warsaw Conservatory gave Chopin valuable lessons in playing the organ.  From the age of 13 to 16, he attended the Lyceum where his father was a professor.  The next year, he began studying music theory and composition with Elsner.  He then left 5 years later to go to Vienna from Poland and then settled in Paris where he spent most of his life and passed away in 1849.

Chopin is remembered today as a challenging and subjective music composer who was a keen performer on the piano. He was known as a virtuoso composer with a certain style with delicacy and variations of color and dynamics. “He was singularly gifted in the realm of melody, and was also a key figure in the popularizing of the polonaise, mazurka and other dance rhythms which was to lead many later composers to study closely the music of their own countries(classical net).” With the extreme diversity on the keyboard Chopin was known to be fantastic technical

Frederic Chopin was born in the year 1810, in Warsaw, Poland and died in 1849, at the young age of 39 (Thompson, 113). He was also known as “the Poet of the Piano” due to his nuance, his expressive depth and his ability to conjure up the melody of the human voice from the instrument’s keys (http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/poland503/chopin.html). “Chopin epitomizes the figure of the “Romantic Artist”: withdrawn, temperamental, talented and doomed to a premature death from tuberculosis.”(Thompson, 112) As he had a small and frail physique, he used the beautiful tones, rhythmic flexibility, atmospheric uses of the pedal and poetic subtleties in dynamics of his

Traditionally, the transition should segue way into the second theme. However, this transition leads to another idea, which is characterized by majestic chords (mm. 17 – 18).

Although classifying a work by its genre may guide listeners to their responses, it only serves as a frame for communication. It is necessary then to focus on the communication of the piece through Chopin’s individualized design of aesthetics and realize the social context of the genre.

Peter Tchaikovsky was a famous Composer from the 19th Century. He is known as the most famous Russian composer in history (“Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Biography”). Some historians think that he was Russia’s first truly professional composer ("Tchaikovsky Music's – Famous”). His music was performed during the late 1800s. He created many musical works throughout this time as a composer and many of these works are still listened to today.

In the course of the development of music, many great composers have contributed their brilliance towards the revolution of music. To be a great composer does not necessarily mean that they have reached a vast amount of fame. However, it means that their compositions have ingenuity and value. The melodies they have cleverly created have reached a point of worthiness in the world of music. For it is the sweet harmonies a composer creates that defines who he is. One of these gifted composers was Frederic Chopin, born on February 22, 1810 in Zelazowa Wola, Poland. Young Chopin was already composing by the age of eight and as his musical career developed he became known as a master of piano composition. Although he was often misunderstood