Chopin: Etudes, Opp. 10 And 25

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Cat No: 8554528

Release Date: 01 January 2000

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Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: CHOPIN

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Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)Complete Piano MusicVol. 2Etudes Opp. 10 and 25Fryderyk Chopin was born in Zelazowa Wola, near Warsaw, in 1810. Hisfather, Nicolas Chopin, was French by birth, but had been taken to Poland in1787, at the age of sixteen, working first as a clerk in a tobacco factory,before taking part in the Polish rising against the foreign domination of thecountry as an officer in the National Guard. After the failure of this attempt,he was able to earn his living as a French tutor in various private families,and in 1806 he married a poor relation of his then employer, Count Skarbek.Chopin was to inherit from his father a fierce sense of loyalty toPoland, a feeling that he fostered largely in self-imposed exile, since thegreater part of his career was to be spent in Paris. His early education,however, was in Warsaw, where his father had become a teacher at a newlyestablished school. He was able to develop his already precocious musicalabilities with piano lessons from the eccentric Adalbert Zywny, a violinistfrom Bohemia, who shared Nicolas Chopin's enthusiasm for Poland and was able toinculcate in his pupil a sound respect for the great composers of theeighteenth century. Chopin later took lessons from the director of the WarsawConservatory, Jozef Elsher, and entered the Conservatory as a student in 1826.By then he had already developed his own individual style as a pianist and hadwritten, during the previous ten years, a number of pieces for the piano.Warsaw offered a restricted environment for musical achievement,although Chopin was able to hear Hummel there in 1828 and the violinistPaganini in the following year. He had already acquired a considerable localreputation when in 1830 he set out for Vienna, where he was to pass the winterwith very little to show for it. An earlier visit to Vienna had arousedinterest, but this second visit, undertaken with a more serious purpose,produced nothing, and the following summer he set out for Paris, where he wasto spend much of the test of his life.Chopin's attitude to Paris was at first ambivalent. As a provincial hefound much to shock him, while, at the same time, there was much to impress inthe splendour of the city and in the diversity of music there. He was to create a special place for himself as ateacher to some of the most distinguished families and as a performer in moreintimate social gatherings than the theatres and concert-halls where his crudercontemporary Franz Liszt could excel.By 1837 Chopin hadembarked on a liaison with the writer George Sand, born Aurore Dupin, theestranged wife of Baron Dudevant, generally spending the summer at her countryestate at Nohant. The writer of 1838 was spent with her in Mallorca, where anattempt to battle against a high wind seriously affected his lungs, alreadyweakened by tuberculosis. Thereafter Chopin's relationship with George Sandtook a more conventional course, until the jealousies and rivalry of her twochildren led to a final quarrel in 1847
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