Fryderyk+Chopin

HIS LIFE
Born on 1 March 1810 in Zelazowa Wola, he is the representative of Romantic music and known as poet of the piano. His ability was to compose Polish folk music. His friend and companion of life was the writer George Sand.

After a few months, when Fryderyk was born he and his parents moved to Warsaw, where his father was a teacher in high school. When Fryderyk was 6 years old he started to learn how to play the piano. His teacher was Wojciech Zywny. Soon after that he was playing with his sister, and later he did his first song which was written by his father. That was just beginning of many benefit concerts or concerts in salons of the aristocracy. When he was sixteen he started studies in Music school and his teacher was Jozef Elsner. At this time it was very important to significant to have contact with Polish folk music and dances, what he was doing at his holidays in Antonin, Szafarni or Sanikach. His first trip overseas was to Berlin later to Vienna, Dresden and Prague where he had public concerts. At the age of 19 he ended his music studies. Profesor Elsner wrote about him: " Fryderyk Chopin, third aptitude, musical genius." In October 1830 Frederick was his last audience in Warsaw. November 2, he left Warsaw for ever going first to Dresden, then to Vienna, Salzburg, Munich and Stuttgart. In September, 1831 he arrived in Paris, where he settled, soon gaining fame Europe. In first years in Paris Chopin concerts feld very often, performing their own songs, recorded the more your ranking pianist and composer. Later he is focused on composing, declared his works at the publishers of French, German and English. However, the main source of his livelihood was teaching activity. He had many students and some of them were a group of almost professional studying pianists. He was very sociable. He had friends like various composers such as Frincis Liszt, Vincenzo Bellini, Gioacchino Rossini or Feliksejak and with publishers, critics and all the polish emigrations. In 1836 he met the writer George Sand, who became his life partner, thet has significant impact of the composer's life. Together they traveled to Mallorca, Marseille and Genui. For several years in a row they spent a summer in Nohant and in the winter they returning to Paris. Since 1839 the health of a patient with tuberculosis Chopin's deteriorating every year. In 1848 he made a last trip tour to England and Scotland, goving the 16 of November the last public concert in London after which he fell really ill. DEATH He was very sick. He died because of Tuberculosis when he was only 39 in 1849 That's 17 his songs in Polish
 * 1. Życzenie, G-dur (S. Witwicki) ||  || 1829 ||
 * 2. Wiosna, g-moll (S. Witwicki) ||  ||   ||
 * 3. Smutna Rzeka, fis-moll (S. Witwicki) ||  || 1831 ||
 * 4. Hulanka, C-dur (S. Witwicki) ||  || 1830 ||
 * 5. Gdzie lubi, A-dur (S. Witwicki) ||  || 1829 ||
 * 6. Precz z moich oczu, f-moll (A. Mickiewicz) ||  || 1827 ||
 * 7. Poseł, D-dur (S. Witwicki) ||  || 1831 ||
 * 8. Śliczny chłopiec, D-dur (B. Zaleski), f-moll (A. Mickiewicz) ||  || 1841 ||
 * 9. Melodia, G-dur (Z. Krasiński) ||  || 1847 ||
 * 10. Wojak, As-dur (S. Witwicki) ||  || 1831 ||
 * 11. Dwojaki koniec, d-moll (B. Zaleski) ||  || 1845 ||
 * 12. Moja pieszczotka, Ges-dur (A. Mickiewicz) ||  || 1837 ||
 * 13. Nie ma czego trzeba, a-moll (B. Zaleski) ||  || 1845 ||
 * 14. Pierścień, Es-dur (S. Witwicki) ||  || 1836 ||
 * 15. Narzeczony, c-moll (S. Witwicki) ||  || 1831 ||
 * 16. Piosnka litewska, F-dur (L. Osiński) ||  || 1831 ||
 * 17. Leci liście z drzewa, es-moll (W. Pol) ||

His Background
Although his surname is French, as his father was French, he was always thought of himself as a Pole. He was born in Poland in Zelazowa Wola. He spent there first 20 years of his life there. He left Poland after the fall of the anti - Russian November Uprising. Poland was then partitioned between Russia, Prussia and Austria.

His Inspiration
When he lived abroud he missed Poland enormously and this longing has influences his work. The spirit of Poland is enclosedin his music f.e. in elegiac Polanaise. He couldn't fight in the army for Poland's freedom, but he joined patriotic organizations and wrote patriotic music, f.e. Etude c minor called the Revolutionary Etuda.

His Achievments
His biggest achievment is the great music he composed during his short and miserable life. His music influanced many, both his contemporaries and next generation. It is pure art, and his talent - unquestionable. Today, no person who thinks of himself as educated, cannot listen to Chopin's music and not be deeply moved and he stays inder its charm for ever.

Why is he considered to be a groundbreaker?
Because he changed music. He make music more popular, more emotional. He moved music on higher level of perfection. There is not a person, who can be neutral to his music.

__ Considerable work... __ about 58 mazurkas about 16 polonaises about 21 nocturnes about 4 ballades about 4 scherzo about 3 sonatas about 2 fantasies about 26 preludes about 27etudes about 4 impromptus

Fryderyk's statue, located in Warsaw's Royal Baths park (Lazienki park) Designed by Waclaw Szymanowski. This is Chopin's signature, stylized as a minim (a half note).

Most of Chopin's composition were written for the piano as a solo instrument. He invented musical forms like the instrumental ballade. He made major innovations in the piano sonata, mazurka, waltz, nocturne, polonaise, etude, impromptu and prelude.

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Succes Answers
- You have to be hard working and focused on your aims. - Everyone have they own succes for some people it's money, or good grades. We have to study more and spend more time for thinking about our finish line, to have better ideas how to get it, because succes is not something what we can have not doing anything. - People fall short of achieving their potential, because most of the times they are lazy, unlucky or they dont believe in themselves. - God want us to achieve our full potential, to be similar to Him, and he is perfect. We have to work for our own succeses, to make future lifr better.

I learned that everybody have they own opinion and definition of succes.
 * __What did I learn during Ms. Rogge's workshop?__**

The achievement of something desired, planned, or attempted
 * __Dictionary definition of succes__**