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06.02.2014 - VIPs1 and Chopin etc. by dali48
Jan / 2010 - Interpretation of dali48
"When I see Paris, I play Chopin somewhat differently than elsewhere. In his 'Nocturnes' I think of a wonderful night-walk along the Seine... (Lang Lang)
"Concerning the ladies you get much further with Chopin than with Mozart"... (Artur Rubenstein)
"On the piano he suddenly got the idea, quite simply sublime, and he was eager to audition it to himself"... Chopin was described like this by the writer George Sand in her biography "Story of My Life" (1865)...
"Why are we touched by Chopin's Nocturne or a piece of Pierre Boulez or a prelude by Bach?"... (Daniel Barenboim)
"Media vita in morte sumus"... "Chopin and Rachmaninoff have thought in their own ways about this unfathomable mystery and clarified it by music"... (Helène Grimaud)
"Chopin's Waltzes point out a split personality - torn between Poland and France, Chopin was in search of identity all his life"... (Alice Sara Ott)
(ARTE, 1 / 2010)
Interpretation of dali48
Frédéric François Chopin (1810 – 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of French-Polish parentage. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music. Chopin was born in Żelazowa Wola, a village in the Duchy of Warsaw. A renowned child-prodigy pianist and composer, Chopin grew up in Warsaw and completed his music education there; he composed many mature works in Warsaw before leaving Poland in 1830 at age 20, shortly before the November 1830 Uprising... Following the Russian suppression of the Uprising, he settled in Paris as part of Poland's Great Emigration. During the remaining 19 years of his life, Chopin gave only some 30 public performances, preferring the more intimate atmosphere of the salon; he supported himself by sales of his compositions and as a piano teacher. After some romantic dalliances with Polish women, including an abortive engagement, from 1837 to 1847 he carried on a relationship with the French writer Amantine Dupin (pen name "George Sand"). For most of his life, Chopin suffered from poor health; he died in Paris in 1849 at age 39... Chopin's father, Nicolas Chopin, was a Frenchman from Lorraine who immigrated to Poland in 1787 at the age of sixteen... Others in Chopin's family were musically talented. Chopin's father played the flute and violin; his mother played the piano and gave lessons to boys in the elite boarding house that the Chopins maintained. As a result Chopin became conversant with music in its various forms at an early age... Józef Sikorski, a musician and Chopin's contemporary, recalls in his Memoirs about Chopin that, as a child, Chopin wept with emotion when his mother played the piano. By six, he was already trying to reproduce what he heard or make up new melodies. He received his earliest piano lessons not from his mother but from his older sister Ludwika (in English, "Louise")... Seven-year-old "little Chopin" (Szopenek) began giving public concerts that soon prompted comparisons with Mozart as a child and with Beethoven... In 1913, French musicologist and Chopin biographer Édouard Ganche would write that this painting of the precocious composer showed "a youth threatened by tuberculosis. His skin is very white, he has a prominent Adam's apple and sunken cheeks, even his ears show a form characteristic of consumptives." Chopin's younger sister Emilia had already died of tuberculosis at the age of fourteen, and their father would succumb to the same disease in 1844... At a comparable age, Bach, Mozart and Beethoven had still been apprentices, while Chopin was perceived by peers and audiences to be already a master who was pointing the path to the coming age... His precarious health prevented his touring extensively as a traveling virtuoso, and beyond playing once in Rouen, he seldom ventured out of the capital... His high income from teaching and composing freed him from the strains of concert-giving, to which he had an innate repugnance. Arthur Hedley has observed that "As a pianist Chopin was unique in acquiring a reputation of the highest order on the basis of a minimum of public appearances—few more than thirty in the course of his lifetime"... In 1835 Chopin went to Carlsbad, where, for the last time in his life, he met with his parents... Chopin proposed marriage to Maria. She accepted, and her mother Countess Wodzińska approved in principle, but Maria's tender age and Chopin's tenuous health (in the winter of 1835–1836 he had been so ill that word had circulated in Warsaw that he had died) forced an indefinite postponement of the wedding. The engagement remained a secret to the world and never led to the altar... (Wikipedia)
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“dali48 I stand all amazed at the effort you put forth to portray such wonderful people in our history ... again letting the world know what we have and what we lost ... thank you dali48 such a wonderful tribute to a great man”...
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