Chopin: Mazurkas, Vol. 1

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Cat No: 8554529

Release Date: 01 January 2000

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Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: CHOPIN

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Fryderyk Chopin (1810 .1849)Complete Piano Music Vol. 3Mazurkas Vol. 1 Fryderyk Chopin was born in Zelazowa Wola, near Warsaw,in 1810. His father,Nicolas Chopin, was French by birth, but had been takento Poland in 1787, at the age of sixteen, working first as a clerk in a tobaccofactory, before taking part in the Polish rising against the foreign dominationof the country as an officer in the National Guard. After the failure of thisattempt, he was able to earn his living as a French tutor in various privatefamilies, and in 1806 he married a poor relation of his then employer, Count Skarbek. Chopin was to inherit from his father a fierce sense ofloyalty to Poland, a feeling that he fostered largely in self-imposed exile,since the greater 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 newly establishedschool. He was able to develop his already precocious musical abilities withpiano lessons from the eccentric Adalbert Zywny, a violinist from Bohemia, whoshared Nicolas Chopin's enthusiasm for Poland and was able to inculcate in his pupila sound respect for the great composers of the eighteenth century. Chopin latertook lessons from the director of the Warsaw Conservatory, Jozef Elsner, andentered the Conservatory as a student in 1826. By then he had already developedhis own individual style as a pianist and had written, during the previous tenyears, a number of pieces for the piano. Warsaw offered a restricted environment for musicalachievement, although Chopin was able to hear Hummel there in 1828 and theviolinist Paganini in the following year. He had already acquired aconsiderable local reputation when in 1830 he set out for Vienna, where he wasto pass the winter with very little to show for it. An earlier visit to Viennahad aroused interest, but this second visit, undertaken with a more seriouspurpose, produced nothing, and the following summer he set out for Paris, wherehe was to spend much of the rest of his life. Chopin's attitude to Paris was at first ambivalent. As aprovincial he found much to shock him, while, at the same time, there was muchto impress in the splendour of the city and in the diversity of music there. Hewas to create a special place for himself as a teacher to some of the mostdistinguished families and as a performer in more intimate social gatheringsthan the theatres and concert-halls where his cruder contemporary Franz Lisztcould excel. By 1837 Chopin had embarked on a liaison with the writerGeorge Sand, born Aurore Dupin, the estranged wife of Baron Dudevant, generallyspending the summer at her country estate at Nohant. The writer of 1838 wasspent with her in Mallorca, where an attempt to battle against a high wind serionslyaffected his lungs, already weakened by tuberculosis. Thereafter Chopin'srelationship with George Sand took a more conventional course, until the jealousiesand rivalry of her two children led t
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