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This piece is called Mazurkas, Op. 17 which is a set of four mazurkas for piano written by Frederic Chopin. This piece was composed and published between 1832 and 1833. Frederic Chopin was a romantic-era polish composer. He lived in Warsaw when he was younger and by the age of 20 had already completed his education and composed various pieces of music. Chopin only gave about 30 performances in public because he preferred salons, which are small recitals, and growing up supported himself by selling his composition while also giving private piano lessons. Chopin died at age 39 from tuberculosis. Most of the pieces that Chopin composed were meant for solo piano performances but he also wrote two piano concertos. Chopin is renown for inventing the concept of instrumental ballade. This certain piece takes about fourteen minutes to play the whole piece. Chopin opens up the piece with four mysterious bars almost as if the chords are not aware of their future course. Chopin settled in France while he was composing this piece. He was unfortunately a refugee from Poland because of the politic...
Seyersted, Per, and Emily Toth, eds. A Kate Chopin Miscellany. Natchitoches: Northwestern State University Press, 1979.
The third dance form that Chopin wrote music for was the Mazurka, which again was a Polish dance in triple time, but this time with a dotted rhythm. It was danced in a speed somewhere between that of the Polonaise and the Waltz, though Chopin never intended his Mazurkas to be danced to, they were again to project a view of Poland though a different one to the Polonaise.
Kate Chopin was born in St. Louis, Missouri on February 8th of 1851, and died 53 years later on August 22 of 1904. She obtains her fame as a writer because she was concerned with women’s issues such as equality and independence. As many writers, she wrote her short stories through her life experiences. According to Jasdomin Tolentino, who studied at Pace University, confirmed that Chopin fought for her feminist views in the nineteenth century through many of her short stories. Tolentino also claims that the short story, The Story of an Hour, is about her dad who enrolled her into boarding school and is also liberated when he passed away, and she is now able to come home, which relates to my last theme. I believe Chopin is Mrs. Mallard in the story because she is looking through the window trying to grasp her freedom which is nearly in arms reach.
The background of both authors, which was from the South, we can conclude how they could described the situations that they faced such as political and social presumptions problems especially for women at that time. The story explains how Chopin wrote how women were to be "seen but not heard". "The wife cannot plead in her own name, without the authority of her husband, even though she should be a public
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Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” tries to shed light on the conflict between women and a society that assign gender roles using a patriarchal approach. Specifically Margaret Bauer highlights, that most of Chopin’s works revolves around exploring the “dynamic interrelation between women and men, women and patriarchy, even women and women” (146). Similarly, in “The Story of an Hour” Chopin depicts a society that oppresses women mostly through the institution of marriage, as women are expected to remain submissive regardless of whether they derive any happiness. The question of divorce is not welcome, and it is tragic that freedom of women can only be realized through death. According to Bauer, the society depicted in Chopin’s story judged women harshly as it expected women to play their domestic roles without question, while on the other hand men were free to follow their dream and impose their will on their wives (149).
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.... Finally the purpose in Kate Chopin writing this story is to show the audience that sometimes it’s ok to feel trapped because there is always a solution even if that solution happens to be death
	Chopin had such and interest in Maupassant that she translated many of his stories from French to English (Toth 273). Due to there content, however, several were never published (Toth 273). Chopin had been taught French by her grandmother, who wanted her to know "how to speak and write French well" (Toth 35). Through this Chopin was able to take the stories of Maupassant and easily translate them. The more Chopin translated Maupassant the more she was influenced by his thinking and writing (Tonth 274). Even in reading Maupassant’s stories, while they are translated, you can still tell that there is a remarkable similarity to Chopin’s writing and his.
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Frederic Chopin is a Polish Composer and a Virtuoso Pianist and he was born on March 1,1810. Chopin had died on October 17,1884 in Paris France. His parents are Justyna Krzyzanowska and Nicolas Chopin and he was there second and only son.When Chopin was young he studied piano with Wojciech Zywny and he all studied harmony and counterpoint with Jozef Elsner. When Chopin was seven years old he had Chopin had begun giving concerts for everyone to hear him and also he created two polonaises in G minor and B-flat major. In 1817 the Saxon Palace was used for the Russian government for military use..The next work that he had did was polonaise in A-flat major of 1821, it was dedicated to his teacher Wojciech Żywny. From September 1823 to 1826 Chopin attended the Warsaw Lyceum where he had received organ lessons from the Czech musician Wilhelm Wurfel during his first year there.In the autumn of 1826 he had began a three-year course under the Silesian composer Jozef Elsner at the Warsaw Conservatory, studying the music theory.
Chopin’s composition “Ballade Op. 23 n.1 in G minor” is a one-movement piece. Ballades are considered one of the most demanding pieces in the standard piano repertoires. In this ballade one can identify the sad mood of the melody created by the fact that the composer was sad and depressed. He was living along in a city far from his home land due to a war against his homeland Poland from Russia. He concluded the Romantic era with “Intermezzo Op. 118 n. 2 in A major” a composition from Johannes Brahms. This short dramatic melody composed with a Fugue and characterized by the variations in rhythm and meter due the interest of the composer on Baroque music. The journey though time ends with a composition from an Italian contemporary composer. The composer Fabio Mengozzi is a very dear friend of Mr. Attesti, as he mentioned to the audiences. His composition “Oltrepassando il valico” is a very smooth melody with a slow tempo. Two tango compositions were played also that night; however the names of the compositions and the composers were not written in the
In the story “Regret” by Kate Chopin, we learn Mamzelle thought she that she wouldn’t regret anything in her life. She lived a fulfilling life by herself. Until Mamzelle Aurlie’s life changes in a blink of an eye, then two weeks later its gone, her life will never be the same.