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Frederic Chopin
Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin (March 1, 1810 - October 17, 1849) - in French, Frédéric François Chopin - was a Polish pianist and composer of the Romantic era. He is widely regarded as one of the most famous, influential, admired and prolific composers for the piano. Hailed as a child prodigy in his homeland of Poland, Chopin left for Paris at the age of twenty. In Paris, he made a career as a performer and teacher as well as a composer, and adopted the French variant of his name, “Frédéric-François.?Always in fragile health, he succumbed to pulmonary tuberculosis at the age of 39.
All of Chopin's work includes the piano in some role (predominantly as a solo instrument) and his compositions are widely considered to be among the pinnacles of the piano's repertoire. Although his music is among the most technically demanding for the instrument, Chopin's style emphasizes poetry, nuance, and expressive depth rather than mere technical display. He invented some musical forms, such as the ballade, but his most significant innovations were within existing structures such as the piano sonata, waltz, nocturne, étude, and prelude. His works are often cited as among the mainstays of Romanticism in nineteenth-century classical music. Additionally, Chopin was the first Western Classical composer to imbue Slavic elements into his music; to this day his mazurkas and polonaises are the cornerstone of Polish Nationalistic classical music.
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