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Frédéric Chopin

フレデリック・ショパン　/　ふれでりっく・しょぱん

Composer from Poland

February 22, 1810 – October 17, 1849　・　Żelazowa Wola, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

Masovian Voivodeship
composer
pianist
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My Take

Chopin is the rare composer who turned technical mastery into pure poetry rather than spectacle. What moves me most is the contrast: a frail man who died at thirty-nine, yet whose nocturnes, ballades and the Heroic Polonaise still pour out of pianos in every corner of the world. He poured his exile and longing for Poland into music that feels intimate and monumental at once. I admire that he wrote almost exclusively for solo piano and still built an entire emotional universe inside it. For me he sits in a category of his own within the Romantic era.

Overview

Frédéric François Chopin (born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin; 1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the early Romantic period who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leading composer of his era whose "poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation".

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Frédéric Chopin
Name (Japanese): フレデリック・ショパン
Reading: ふれでりっく・しょぱん
Born: February 22, 1810 – October 17, 1849
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Pisces / Horse
Origin: Żelazowa Wola, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: composer / pianist / piano teacher / virtuoso / musician

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Chopin University of Music

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

5. Works & records

Category	Title	Role
Notable work	Études	—
Notable work	Polonaise in A-flat major "Heroic", Op. 53	—
Notable work	Nocturnes	—
Notable work	Ballades	—

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%83%AC%E3%83%87%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A7%E3%83%91%E3%83%B3

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