Franz chopin. Life of Chopin, by Franz Liszt 2022-10-21
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Franz Chopin was a Polish composer and pianist who is widely considered to be one of the greatest musicians of all time. Born in 1810 in Zelazowa Wola, Poland, Chopin began playing the piano at a very young age and quickly demonstrated a natural talent for music. He received his formal education at the Warsaw Conservatory, where he studied composition and piano with some of the finest teachers of the time.
Chopin's early works were largely influenced by the classical tradition, but as he matured as a composer, he began to incorporate more romantic elements into his music. He is best known for his solo piano works, which include a wide variety of pieces such as sonatas, preludes, mazurkas, waltzes, nocturnes, and etudes. These works are characterized by their technical virtuosity, emotional depth, and expressive use of the piano.
One of the most distinctive features of Chopin's music is his use of the rubato, a rhythmic flexibility that allows the performer to stretch and compress the tempo within a piece. This gives his music a sense of freedom and spontaneity that is particularly well-suited to the piano. Another notable characteristic of his music is his use of melody and harmony, which often reflect his Polish heritage and the folk music of his homeland.
Chopin was a true innovator who expanded the boundaries of piano music and influenced countless composers who came after him. His music has stood the test of time and continues to be played and admired by musicians and audiences around the world. Despite his relatively short life (he died at the age of 39), Chopin left a lasting legacy that has made him an enduring figure in the history of classical music.
Life of Chopin by Franz Liszt
Such natures are generally badly divined by their contemporaries when they have been silent, often misunderstood when they have spoken the most eloquently! To have learned from her to penetrate the dreams of man when he, in his turn, creates, and uses in his works the tones, the warblings, the terrors, the delights, requires a still more subtle power; a power which Madame Sand possesses by a double right, by the intuitions of her heart, and the vigor of her genius. The whole of this piece is of a perfection almost ideal; its expression, now radiant with light, now full of tender pathos. Unless we could see it danced by some of the old regime who still wear the ancient costume, or listen to their animated descriptions of it, we can form no conception of the numerous incidents, the scenic pantomime, which once rendered it so effective. Endowed with that rare faculty only given to a few elect, of recognizing the Beautiful under whatever form of nature or of art it may assume, she listened with the whole force of her ardent genius. Liszt is a man of extensive culture, vivid imagination, and great knowledge of the world; and, in addition to their high artistic value, his lines glow with poetic fervor, with impassioned eloquence. Without doubt, Chopin frequently drew fresh inspiration from this noble poem, whose scenes so forcibly depict the emotions he best loved to reproduce. As if in the pride of defiance, the cavalier accentuates his steps, quits his partner for a moment, as if to contemplate her with renewed delight, rejoins her with passionate eagerness, or whirls himself rapidly round, as though overcome with the sudden joy and yielding to the delicious giddiness of rapture.
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We have frequently watched him during the progress of long, animated, and stormy discussions, in which he would take no part. This improvisation terminates like a dream, without other conclusion than a convulsive shudder; leaving the soul under the strangest, the wildest, the most subduing impressions. His gestures were many and graceful; the tone of his voice was veiled, often stifled; his stature was low, and his limbs slight. The different forms which had appeared in the history of art, seemed to them like tents spread in the interminable route of the ideal; mere momentary halting places which genius attains from epoch to epoch, and beyond which the inheritors of the past should strive to advance. He also spends a lot of time rhapsodizing about tangential matters. What interviews, commenced in indifference, prolonged in jest, interrupted with emotion, renewed with the secret consciousness of mutual understanding, in all that concerns subtle intuition Slavic finesse and delicacy especially excel, have terminated in the deepest attachments! The company called it a "piano-Liszt" and installed it in Villa Altenburg in July 1854, Liszt owned two other organs that were installed later in his Budapest residence. The analogy between the Polish and Russian, has been compared to that which obtains between the Latin and Italian.
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How sincerely should we revere him for this devotion to the Beautiful for its own sake, which induced him not to yield to the general propensity to scatter each light spray of melody over a hundred orchestral desks, and enabled him to augment the resources of art, in teaching how they may be concentrated in a more limited space, elaborated at less expense of means, and condensed in time! He never gave the least praise to any thing which he did not believe to be a real conquest for art, or which did not evince a serious conception of the task of an artist. He always used it with the people of his own country, and loved to translate its most expressive phrases. Among the collection of treasures of which we speak, was an exceedingly curious relic, which is still in existence. It chases its prey, it accumulates facts only to distort them, it arrogates to itself the right of despising the inspiration to which it will grant no authority or aim but to furnish amusement, denying it any claim to guide our actions, our resolutions, our refusal, our consent! The long intervals which separate the successive appearance of the pairs being reserved for conversation among the dancers, when their turn comes again, the scene passes no longer only among themselves, but extends from them to the spectators. This fact is in itself sufficient to give interest to interviews otherwise insignificant. He also spends a lot of time rhapsodizing about tangential matters.
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(PDF) Life of Chopin by Franz Liszt
It often follows from such causes, that eloquence becomes only a sort of grave badinage, sparkling with spangles like the play of fireworks, though the heart of the discourse may contain nothing earnest; while the lightest raillery, thrown out apparently at random, may perhaps be most sadly serious. Both moustache and sword were essential parts of the costume, and were indeed objects of vanity with all ages. As a witty woman once remarked: "They often play a comedy, to avoid a tragedy! Por poco que la naturaleza de su genio y la de sus asuntos no requieran dichas formas o y no necesite dichos recursos, los dejará a un lado, como dejar descansar el pĂfano o el clarinete bajo, el tambor o la viola de amor cuando no le hacen falta. Man is still ardent, proud, and presumptuous, but he yields himself up to a delirium of pleasure. It is to be regretted that the indubitable advantage for the artist resulting from the cultivation of only a select audience, should be so sensibly diminished by the rare and cold expression of its sympathies.
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Franz Chopin Research Paper
And he also dedicated some music to the haughty Baroness. Chopin published his music in France, England, and the German states due to the copyright laws of the time. Did they need to sit at the piano to do so? It was published with a vignette, representing the author in the act of blowing his brains out with a pistol. This limited cultivation, while it greatly diminishes the value of their ideas upon many subjects, at the same time gifts the mind with a peculiar force, almost resembling the keen scent and the acute perceptions of the savage, for all the things near and dear to it. During the progress of a Polonaise, this became an object of especial remark, because the cavalier of the leading pair, as commandant of the file, gave the mute word of command, which was immediately obeyed and imitated by the rest of the train. POETRY and REALITY are not two incompatible elements, destined to move on together without commingling. His musical criticisms are refined and acute, but without repulsive technicalities or scientific terms, ever sparkling with the poetic ardor of the generous soul through which the discriminating, yet appreciative awards were poured.
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Life of Chopin
Still, every pianist who tackles this work can offer a different and personal take on its drama. In Paris, Chopin encountered artists and other distinguished figures and found many opportunities to exercise his talents and achieve celebrity. . Oxford: Oxford University Press. Upon that evening which we are now describing, Meyerbeer was seated next to Heine;—Meyerbeer, for whom the whole catalogue of admiring interjections has long since been exhausted! There are few more delightful scenes than a ball in Poland.
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Frederic Chopin
The most marked and celebrated historic manifestation of these properties is to be found in the expedition of Sobieski when he saved Vienna, and gave a mortal blow to the Ottoman Empire, which was at last conquered in the long struggle, sustained on both sides with so much prowess and glory, with so much mutual deference between opponents as magnanimous in their truces as irreconcilable in their combats. Warsaw: Instytut Fryderyka Chopina, 1949. At the close of an hour or two, the same circle again forms to end the dance; and on those days when amusement and pleasure fill all with an excited gayety, sparkling and glittering through those impressible temperaments like an aurora in a midnight sky, a general promenade is recommenced, and in its accelerated movements, we cannot detect the least symptom of fatigue among all these delicate yet enduring women; as if their light limbs possessed the flexible tenacity and elasticity of steel! Monastic robes were frequently chosen by worldly men, the costumes of official charges were selected or refused as the remembrances connected with them were glorious or painful. Let us regard him as one of those whom the belief of the people marks as "Good Genii! We cannot command the melancholy courage to exhume emotions linked with our fondest memories, our dearest personal recollections; we cannot force ourselves to make the mournful effort to color the gloomy shrouds, veiling the skill we once loved, with the brilliant hues they would exact at our hands. He could not introduce in its unyielding lines that shadowy and sketchy indecision, which, disguising the skeleton, the whole frame-work of form, drapes it in the mist of floating vapors, such as surround the white-bosomed maids of Ossian, when they permit mortals to catch some vague, yet lovely outline, from their home in the changing, drifting, blinding clouds.
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Life of Chopin by Franz Liszt
After the host, came next in order the guests of the greatest consideration, who, choosing their partners, some from friendship, some from policy or from desire of advancement, some from love,—followed closely his steps. Franz Liszt, The Final Years, 1861—1886. Parisians in their grace and culture, Eastern dancing girls in their languid fire, they have perhaps preserved among them, handed down from mother to daughter, the secret of the burning love potions possessed in the seraglios. As the manifold forms of art are but different incantations, charged with electricity from the soul of the artist, and destined to evoke the latent emotions and passions in order to render them sensible, intelligible, and, in some degree, tangible; so genius may be manifested in the invention of new forms, adapted, it may be, to the expression of feelings which have not yet surged within the limits of common experience, and are indeed first evoked within the magic circle by the creative power of artistic intuition. Perhaps human nature is not capable of maintaining always this mood of energetic abnegation, of courageous submission.
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Frédéric Chopin
The forms of this politeness, this modesty, have their solution in their manners, in which their ancient connection with the East may be strangely traced. They span his entire life and as such show nearly every facet of this complex, private musician. Here chance may bring together those who but a few hours before were strangers to each other. And what result would it be possible to attain with all our efforts! We may, without any fear of contradiction, assert, that it is not one of the least merits of Chopin, that he has, consecutively, embraced ALL the phases of which the theme is susceptible, that he has succeeded in eliciting from it all its brilliancy, in awakening from it all its sadness. Such skill is full of concealed anxiety, terror, and anguish! Institute of Musicology, University of Warsaw 2007, pp. We have cited some examples which, joined to others, induce us to believe that this language has the advantage of making images of abstract nouns, and that in the course of its development, through the poetic genius of the nation, it has been enabled to establish striking and just relations between ideas by etymologies, derivations, and synonymes.
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It was a constant display of its lustre, its glory, its renown. . He mingled so many charms, so much moderation, so much knowledge with his daring innovations, that the prompt admiration he inspired fully justified the confidence he placed in his own genius. New Haven and London: 978-0-300-07773-5. In constant connection with some of the most brilliant politicians of the day, he knew how to limit the relations between them to a personal attachment entirely independent of political interests. As the manifold forms of art are but different incantations, charged with electricity from the soul of the artist, and destined to evoke the latent emotions and passions in order to render them sensible, intelligible, and, in some degree, tangible; so genius may be manifested in the invention of new forms, adapted, it may be, to the expression of feelings which have not yet surged within the limits of common experience, and are indeed first evoked within the magic circle by the creative power of artistic intuition.
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