How Did Frederic Chopin Influence His Creativity In Music?

Krystian Zimerman is a Classical Polish pianists born on December 4,1956 in Zabrze, Poland. He came from a family where music- making was a tradition. Zimerman was greatly influenced by his own father who was also a pianist himself. Zimerman’s career Internationally launched after winning first prize at the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, in 1975. Krystian has an exclusive contract with Deutsch Grammophon, a label where he records albums. With this label he has won numerous awards.

Frederic Chopin, the Polish composer and pianist, was born on March 1,1810, according to the statements of the artist himself and his family, but according to his baptismal certificate, which was written several weeks after his birth, the date was 22 February. His birthplace was the village of Zelazowa Wola, part of the Duchy of Warsaw.

(May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th century music. With his ever-changing directions in music, Davis was at the forefront of a number of major stylistic developments in jazz over his five-decade career.[1]

Frederic Chopin is thought to be one of the greatest composers of classical music to come from Poland. Chopin lived and composed music during the Romantic era with some of his greatest works being in nocturne, mazurkas, and prelude. His skills were innovative and unorthodox to many people during his time because of his sense of intuitiveness. His phenomenal piano and composition skills had a defining impact on other musicians around him. However, to have such influential power Chopin did not perform many concerts during his lifetime. It is recorded that he only performed a total of 30 public performances.

Nowadays, learning musical instruments has become common as many people learn to play at least one musical instrument at school. Some of them even take lessons outside of school to fulfill their enjoyment or to pursue their career as musicians. Unlike nowadays, in the early 20th century, music was not available for everyone; only certain people were under the circumstance of learning to play musical instruments. In the film “The Pianist,” directed by Roman Polanski, the main character, Wladek Szpilman is one of the 20 out of 360,000 Jews who survived the Nazi occupation of Warsaw. He was a famous Polish pianist who performed live in Warsaw radio. Because of Wladek’s outstanding talent in music, he was known as one of the greatest pianist not

Frederic François Chopin was born in a small town called Zelazowa Wola, near modern day Warsaw, Poland on the first of March, 1810. Chopin's father was the tutor to many aristocratic families in Zelazowa Wola. When Frederic turned eight years old his father, Nicholas who was a French immigrant, began to teach French at the Warsaw lyceum. A lyceum is a secondary school, and the Warsaw Lyceum was opened from 1804 until 1831, this lyceum is where Chopin himself went to school (Plantinga). Chopin's immediate family were always playing piano. It is said that as a small infant Chopin became exited when his mother and elder sister would play piano around him. When he turned six years of age he would attempt to reproduce the music he heard his family

`His music has been described as ‘the epitome of the very soul of the piano’, ‘the piano brought to life’, ‘winged keys’. Indeed, Frédéric Chopin is usually associated with his piano ballades and nocturnes, mazurkas and polonaises, études and preludes, sonatas and scherzos. And yet, alongside that great road, there was a small path, modest but noteworthy: his songs both great and small

This is a critique of Sebastian Arredondo’s performance on the evening of Monday November 28, 2016 which took place in Recital Hall in Merrill Hall of the Jacob’s School of Music. Arredondo performed three pieces. His first piece was Domenico Scarlatti’s Sonata in A Major, K.208 followed by his Sonata in D Major, K.492. His next piece was Maurice Ravel’s Valses nobles et sentimentales (1911) which contains 8 movements; Modere – Tres franc, Assez lent, Modere, Assez anime, Presque lent, Vif, Moins vif, and Epilogue: Lent. The last piece Arredondo performed was Franz Liszt’s Sonata in B Minor, S.178. Scarlatti lived from 1685-1757 and the majority of his pieces were published after his death. Maurice Raval lived from 1875-1937 and his piece Valses nobles et sentimentales was published for piano in 1911. Franz Liszt lived from 1811-1886 and his Sonata in B Minor, S.178 was published in 1854.

Frédéric François Chopin (1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849) was a genius Polish composer and a virtuoso pianist during the Romantic period of piano mainly creating solo piano compositions. Chopin is a worldwide-known piano composer who led his era and is nationally known whose “poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation.” (qtd. The Romantic Generation p. 284) Throughout his career, Chopin was able to change the perceived viewpoint of musical articulation and composition. His music contains many mysteries and wonders that involve a singing legato, creating the sound of unbroken sound from the piano, like a human voice.

Chopin had many works for the piano that were amazing and it won over many listeners during his time. Where he had a unique style at the time that helped him set himself apart from the rest of the composers during this time. Chopin wrote “sixty-one mazurkas, six-teen polonaises, twenty-six preludes, twenty-seven etudes, twenty-one nocturnes, twenty waltzes, three sonata, four ballads, four scherzos, four impromptus and many individual pieces” according to the biography of Frederic-Chopin. Chopin music was considerate, romantic and beautiful. It is very difficult to play and has many solos for the piano. The concerto no. 1 in E minor op.11 is a very difficult piece and extremely hard to play. The variations are very unique, and one of a kind

Music has always been apart of my life ,from the tender age of six years old we have ever been apart. The art form of musical arts will forever intrigue me and compel me to push myself to my musical limit. The history of the evolution of music through the centuries is quite alluring. The formulation of musical intellectually concepts and leaps of faith that composers at the time

Franz Liszt was many things in his lifetime; an author; a philanthropist; a scintillating, detail oriented, conductor; a brilliant, inventive, composer; more than a mere pianist, he was an intriguing and captivating performer; an altruistic piano teacher; and eventually a devout clergyman. His father, Adam Liszt, an extremely talented musician, gave young Liszt his earliest lessons on the piano. It wasn't long before he realized the uncanny talent his son possessed. Seeing this, he placed his own career as a musician on the back burner in order to obtain further musical education for his son, a blossoming prodigy. Soon young Liszt was studying composition with Antonio Salieri, and piano with Carl Czerny, a previous student of Beethoven. By the time he was eight, he had written his first

My composer’s name is Edvard Grieg. He was born on June 15, 1843 and he died on September 4, 1907 at the age of 64. He was born in Bergen, Norway and died in Bergen, Norway. He was homeschooled at Tanks School when he was young. He then went to the school of Leipzig Conservatory when he got older. He later went to college at Oxford University. His mom started to give him piano lessons when he was 6. He played the piano and the organ his whole life.

By the age of 6, Frederic Chopin was being taught by his first professional pianist by the name of Wojciech Żywny. It quickly became apparent that he was a child

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