FREDERIC CHOPIN

ABOUT HIS CHILDHOOD

• Parents- Dad Nicholas, Mom Justyna Krzyźanowaska and another mom.
• They were poor
• He encountered Polish rural folk music and he also tutored children of the Polish aristocracy.

FREDERIC'S SCHOOLING

• He did not start out as a musician.
• He kind of struggled in school.
• They didn't have to move to go to school. They did move though.

WHAT CITY OR COUNTRY IS HE FROM

• He was born in Zelazowa Wola.
• He moved to Paris later when he grew up.
• He did die sadly in Paris

WHAT ERA DID HE WRIGHT

• He wrote Romantic Era

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

• He started by his mom telling him about music.
• He got his music education at Warsaw Lyceum.
• Some of his musical influences were Robert Schumann, J.S. Bach Mozart and Schubert.

WHAT INSTRUMENT WAS IT MADE FOR

• It was made for mostly for the Piano.

TYOE OF MUSIC HE COMPOSED

• He composed for the piano, sonatas, waltz, mazurkas, polonaises, studies, preludes, nocturnes, and scherzos.

DID HE COMPOSE FOR A SPECIFIC STYLE

• He composed for solo piano, two piano concertos, three pieces for the cello, piano, one piece for the violin cello and numerous songs.

FIVE INTERESTING FACTS

• His father played the flute and violin.
• The mother played the flute and gave lessons to the boys in the boarding house that they lived in.
• All of his compositions include the piano.
• He invented the concept of the instrumental ballade.
• Frederic Chopin is buried by his friend composer Cerubini, at the pére Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.

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• I like the tempo the of the composition.
• I also like that it is called spring waltzed. It really goes good with the tempo of the song.
• The last thing I like about it is that he put a lot of time and effort in writing in his song.😃

THE WEBSITES I USED

• iml.pu.ufl.edu
• answers.yahoo.com
• ipl.org
• biography.com
• Wikipedia.org

Frederic Chopin (Pictures)

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