k Chopin was one of the most well-known composers of his time. He wrote music during the Romantic Era. Even to this day, he inspires many by his works. He was considered as much a musical genius as Mozart. The Nocturne, Mazurka, Polonaise, Scherzo, Etude, and Waltz were all perfected by Chopin, displaying his great talent that we are able to see in all of his works. Frederick Chopin grew up in a small town in Poland. His mother was very adamant that he develop musical abilities as a young child. At only six years old Chopin began playing as well as composing music. In 1822 Frederick had to switch teachers because his current teacher felt incapable of teaching him. When he was sixteen he conducted his first concert, surpassing several teachers …show more content…
In the book Bach to Braham’s, Walter Robert says the following about Frederick’s waltzes: “In his waltzes, Chopin is the Parisian man of the world, not the Polish patriot of the mazurkas and the polonaises.” Although his waltzes may not be some of his most famous works, they show us a side of composing in Chopin that is not depicted in other works. His other works have more of a free tempo and have more nuance, his waltzes have more of a solid tempo and are more formatted. His other music was written more for performances, but the waltzes were for royal balls and dances. Chopin perfected the waltz by adding more refinement and elegance to fit better with the ladies who would be dancing it. He composed a total of seventeen waltzes, which add to the great number of his talented music composed.
The Mazurka is another type of music that Chopin composed. These were folk dances that were found in an area of Poland called the mazur (hence the name). Chopin wrote his first Mazurka at the young age of fifteen. The first time Frederick has heard the Mazurka, was in a small town where Peasants preserved this style of music throughout the years. Hearing this inspired him to compose Mazurkas because it reminded him of his life in Poland. He wrote a total of fifty-eight Mazurkas which we enjoy listening to and playing even
Chopin was a piano instructor and composer of the Romantic Period. His body of work consists primarily of piano music. Born and classically trained in Poland, he left his homeland due to declining political conditions and moved to Paris, where he moved through the ranks and gained the respect of many other composers of the day. He had a famous relationship with the novelist George Sand, although the exact nature of the relationship is a bit unclear. He suffered from Tuberculosis and died at the young age of 39, not unlike so many other composers of this period.
While Tchaikovsky is known for his compositions of classical ballet, he was overall great as a pianist. Like most composers of music, his compositions reflected that of his feelings greatly, which helped him connect to the public and spread his music quite well. As a child, he became better than his teacher in one year, and at the age of ten went to the School of Jurisprudence and quickly completed the upper division classes. After graduating, he did four years at the Ministry of Justice, which didn’t really suite him well. Once out of the Ministry of Justice in the 1860s, he joined the Music Conservatory at the age of 22. Shortly after joining, he composed his first orchestral score in 1864. Two years later, he settled down in Moscow and started to increase his fame as a composer. In the following years he would tour around Europe and even into the United States. In 1893, six days after the premiere of his last piece he
A biography written by gives a good chronological story of her life which will be described in the following paragraphs23. Chopin was born February 8th 1850 in Saint Louis. Her father was from Ireland while her mother was from Saint Louis. From the time she was five years old she went to Saint Louis boarding school known as Sacred Heart. She was very close to her family.
Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany in 1770 to Johann van Beethoven and his wife, Maria Magdalena. He took his first music lessons from his father, who was tenor in the choir of the archbishop-elector of Cologne. His father was an unstable, yet ambitious man whose excessive drinking, rough temper and anxiety surprisingly did not diminish Beethoven's love for music. He studied and performed with great success, despite becoming the breadwinner of his household by the time he was 18 years old. His father's increasingly serious alcohol problem and the earlier death of his grandfather in 1773 sent his family into deepening poverty. At first, Beethoven made little impact on the musical society, despite his father's hopes. When he turned 11, he left school and became an assistant organist to Christian Gottlob Neefe at the court of Bonn, learning from him and other musicians. In 1783 he became the continuo player for the Bonn opera and accompanied their rehearsals on keyboard. In 1787, he was sent to Vienna to take further lessons from Mozart. Two months later, however, he was called back to Bonn by the death of his mother. He started to play the viola in the Opera Orchestra in 1789, while also teaching in composing. He met Haydn in 1790, who agreed to teach him in Vienna, and Beethoven then moved to Vienna permanently. He received financial support from Prince Karl Lichnowsky, to whom he dedicated his Piano Sonata in C minor, better known as The Pathétique .
Kate Chopin wrote in a period of time where women were standing up for there right. In other words, women’s curiosity grew more and more while she was taking away there liberties, the more they take away the more the curiosity grew. Kate Chopin was born in 1851 in Catherine O’Flaherty, she was a marry woman with six children and later widow. She stared writing novels, which was offensive to men, that’s why she never had a chance to publish them, after later she finally did. Chopin wrote a lot of fictional stories which help change the point or view of women in society. One of the novels called The Awakening written in 1899, a story of adultery and sexuality which was badly criticizes by other readers of how she portrayed women in the novels. No thought later in the time she was recognizing by the feminist scholar lecture. The next story called The Storm, probably publish at the same time as the novel The Awakening, which in reality she did not intended to publish. The novel The Storm talks about a woman that committed adultery which ones occur, no one got hurt at the end.
She uses marriage as way to place her characters in this state of wandering as far as their identity is concerned, and then finds a way to awaken them in a way where they become unhappy with their lives, but then doesn't let them find a way to change it. It should be recognized that Chopin broke the boundaries as far as writing about female characters in a way that most people didn't even think of them. But, more importantly, Chopin did not break barriers with her characters final actions. Using things like going back home, cheating on a spouse and dying she ultimately abandons the hope she installed that women can be happy and can make change for themselves. It wouldn't be without a struggle, but the characters giving up is the ultimate loss for feminism in Chopin's pieces.
Chopin’s mother played a key role in developing his love for music by introducing him to music at an early age. In addition to his mother introducing him to music, his father’s career which involved him tutoring Warsaw’s aristocratic families helped to spark Chopin’s love for music. Music was an integral part of most aristocratic families’ lives. So, it is not surprising that music had a great influence on Chopin, who was exposed to aristocratic families. The influence of Music on Chopin’s life had a lasting impact on himself and eventually the rest of
The facilitators of this website have posted Chopin’s Bayou Folk in it’s entirety. This book contains 23 of Chopin’s short stories / essays. It is an exceptional representation of Chopin’s writing and the variety of style she accomplished.
Kate Chopin was a great writer who wasn't truly appreciated until years after her death. However, her views and ideas are still relevant in today's society. I also commend her for expressing her views and feelings even though she knew that the public would disagree with her. It is a shame that she was not recognized during her life as the great writer that she was.
Kate Chopin was born in 1850, Kate O'Flaherty in St. Louis, Missouri to Eliza and Thomas O'Flaherty. She was the third of five children, but her sisters died in infancy and her brothers, from her father’s first marriage, died in their early twenties. She was the only child in her family to live past the age of twenty-five. In 1867, Chopin started to keep a journal of poems, essays, sketches, criticism and more. From 1869-1870 Chopin attended debutante parties, learned to smoke, and wrote her first story, "Emancipation: A Life Fable," which is a short story about freedom and restriction. In 1870, at the age of twenty, she married Oscar Chopin, who was twenty-five, and the son of a wealthy cotton-growing family in Louisiana. (Wyatt, online)
As with other romantic composers, Chopin made use of chromatic harmony to add richness, depth, and sensuosity to his works (Wright 232). Piano music of the romantic period was enhanced by advancements in the instrument, such as felt covered hammers and sustaining and soft pedals (Wright
... of race, class, gender and culture were very important in that time and Chopin makes sure to address those issues. Whenever someone reads a book, they can look further into the story and find a great deal of the ideas and beliefs of people of that time.
The important piano works of Chopin include sonatas, preludes, etudes, polonaises, mazurkas, waltzes, nocturnes, scherzi, and ballades.
Chopin, fatherless at four, was certainly a product of her Creole heritage, and was strongly influenced by her mother and her maternal grandmother. Perhaps it is because she grew up in a female dominated environment that she was not a stereotypical product of her times and so could not conform to socially acceptable themes in her writing. Chopin even went so far as to assume the managerial role of her husband's business after he died in 1883. This behavior, in addition to her fascination with scientific principles, her upbringing, and her penchant for feminist characters would seem to indicate that individuality, freedom, and joy were as important to Chopin as they are to the characters in her stories. Yet it appears to be as difficult for critics to agree on Chopin's view of her own life as it is for them to accept the heroines of her stories. Per Seyersted believes that Chopin enjoyed living alone as an independent writer, but other critics have argued that Chopin was happily married and bore little resemblance to the characters in her stories (150-164).
Franz Liszt was a Hungarian born composer. He was one of the best, and most respected pianist of his time. He was a very accomplished conductor, and one of the foremost educational instructors in history. In 1836, King Charles Halle described Franz Liszt as the following. "He is tall and very thin, his face very small and pale, his forehead remarkably high and beautiful; he wears his perfectly lank hair so long that it spreads over his shoulders, which looks very odd, for when he gets a bit excited and gesticulates, it falls right over his face and one sees nothing of his nose. He is very negligent in his attire, his coat looks as if it had just been thrown on, and he wears no cravat, only a narrow white collar. This curious figure is in perpetual motion: now he stamps with his feet, now waves his arms in the air, now waves his arms in the air, now he does this, now that." Franz Liszt, was born on October 22, 1811, In the Hungarian town of Raiding. Liszt was taught to play piano at a very young age by his father, who was also very involved in music. His father, Adam played the cello, and many other instruments, as he was a very passionate musician. Adam taught Franz to the extent that he was giving concerts by the age of nine and starting to compose his own pieces. His father, having obtained permission from his employer, Prince Nicholas Esterhazy, accompanied the young Franz to Vienna. Franz Liszt was financially supported by a man by the name of Antonio Salieri, who gave him free tuition in composition. The boy, Franz, gave some very successful performances before prominent people in Vienna and gained a lot of fame. He became very well known for his ability to take a melody provided by a member of the audience and work it into a...