I think he did that. He always enjoyed playing in the salon with his friends rather than concerts. He only performed around 40 while other people had hundreds
I took piano lessons from age five until seventeen. There are dozens of classical composer's, but my teacher had a penchant for Chopin's music! I seemed to be drawn to his music also. I found it to be beautiful and relatively easy to play. In fact, my piano teacher was so impressed, she began to refer to me as, "Chopin's girl!" Now I wish that she had given me a wider range of classical pieces, but she concentrated on Chopin - not exclusively, but he was her main focus! So I love his music, especially his Fantasie Impromptu and Polonaise in A Flat Major! There was a certain girl my teacher bragged about to her other students. This girl played much better than ALL her other students, and she also played mostly Chopin. She would close every recital with stunning renditions of a piece of his music. When she aged out (our teacher preferred to concentrate on school-aged children, although she also taught a very few adults.) I stopped my piano lessons when I graduated from High School. Now, I wish I had given my playing more imagination, like the person who played Chopin by candlelight! That is adding romance to music composed by probably the most romantic of all classical composers!
@@nancyayers6355 some are easy to “play” until you hear recording of Rubinstein , Horowitz , and other greats interpret Chopin. His music takes a lot of musicality , not just being able to play the notes.
Chopin wasn't shy and quiet. It seems he never felt quite at home when in France but in Poland he was known to be joyful, a good sport with a great sense of humour. He had a talent for making people laugh and could be a bit naughty at times. He was also very good at drawing and his teachers often caught him drawing their caricatures. He would spend his holidays in the country where he wrote and edited a parody-like newspaper for his family and friends. He also liked to play with folk music bands. He wasn't shy towards women either. He often accompanied Konstancja Gładkowska, his first love, and they kept writing each other for a year after he left. He was also engaged to Maria Wodzińska. All in all, at least in Poland, he was the opposite of the moody neurotic Chopin people tend to picture.
@@owenreese5549 for starters you can go to the website of the Chopin Institute in Warsaw and click the links there to read his biography. However, it seems the Polish version is longer than the English one, so maybe you can read the Polish one with Google translate. You can also look for "Chopin listy karykatury" to find caricatures drawn by young Chopin.
"Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art." SERIOUSLY google some of the other quotes by this man. His music and talent was obviously on another level, maybe even SUPER-HUMAN level, but it looks like so was his speech
@2:59, In 1830 Poland was already partitioned and absorbed into 3 neighbouring countries: Russia, Prussia (Germany) and the Austro-Hungarian Empire (Austria). Warsaw was under the Russian occupation during partitions. This November 1830 Uprising was one of many where Poles tried to regain independence. They finally did it in 1918 after 123 years of partitions.
Fabulous. I like the chapter in Chopin's life where the French government told him he could visit Paris, at first, but not stay long. Then he played his new works and he was a smash hit. France welcomed him after is concert, and he stayed as long as he wanted. He played, he stayed.
Thank you! I'm writing a research paper on Chopin and this super helped! He was way cooler than I thought, I barely knew anything about him then, and he is now my favorite composer!!
Such an interesting video about my favorite composer! Just thinking about Chopin and Liszt's friendship makes me dream; two geniuses exploring the world together with two completely opposite views.
Thanks a million for this lively documentary. In particular the sensitive humour; I found the characters' quotes both informative and entertaining. By the way, as a 15 year-old, I once visited Georges Sand's countryside cottage in l'Indre, situated within a rural county in the Berry province in France. She wrote fantasy tales and legends inspired by folk tradition, entitled "Contes Rustiques du Berry". As for Chopin, his two piano concerti remain my favourite works written by his hand up till this day. They're incredibly passionate and used to practically stir me to tears, shaking my innermost self when I listened to them as a teenager.
To be honest he was just raised there. Zelazowa Wola wasn't the house of his family. That was a place where his father worked as a teacher of a richman's kids. Chopin's family lived there and what's interesting, they moved in when Chopin was 3 and moved out when he was 7.
@@gothenix I have been personally in museum located in Zelazowa Wola at Chopis family house where he was born. This is history Fact. So either whole museum lies to poeople and dont know where Chopin was born, or u are a Polish history genius. But more likely u read something on random website didnt check if its true and trying to be smart.
In Terra Haute IN as a sales person, I stopped at Columbia Music, located there. As I had finished my business, and as I was leaving, I spied a table with free cassette tapes. I picked up a Best of Chopin, walked out, jumped in my car and plopped it into my radio/tape player in the car and drove all the way back from Terra Haute to Indianapolis in heaven.
Frederic Chopin is my favourite composer. It is worth mentioning Jane Stirling, a Scottish lady who played a big part in Chopin's life towards the end, bringing him to England and Scotland, much of the time he was quite ill. After his death, Jane Stirling was known as "Chopin's widow". It was an unrequited love. She loved him, but he did not love her, only saw her as a friend and pupil. It was Jane Stirling who disposed of Chopin's effects and manuscripts after his untimely death. I could listen to Chopin's music all day and all night.
'It was Jane Stirling who disposed of Chopin's effects and manuscripts after his untimely death." Source? As far as I know, it was his sister Ludwika and his childhood Polish friends living in Paris who took care of that.
@@iaf6563 Source is Wiki - Jane Stirling. Many years ago I read a biography of Frederic Chopin. It was written two or three years after his death. I can't remember the author but the central library in Aberdeen, Scotland only had one copy and it had to be specially reserved with no extension on the time it could be borrowed. It was written by someone who knew him well, also Franz Liszt and a few others. It was a fascinating insight into the great man's life.
Yes, though personality-wise they seemed completely opposite! Liszt was very showy and bombastic, whereas Chopin hated big public performances and was very private.
I think Chopin is like Li Yundi and Liszt is like Lang Lang :) I watched a lot of your videos, I think you can post some of your performance. You will get a lot more subscribers if you do so
@@qzg7857 Maria Skłodowska - Curie had both parents who were Polish but of course France helped her achieve many things:) She's very interesting person, I read about her and she seemd to be really good, kind and talented woman:)
According to a Polish documentary from 1995(?), Chopin was born February 22nd, 1810 OUTSIDE Warsaw at Zelazowa Wola. FYI, Poland didn't exist politically during Chopin's lifetime, having already been partitioned 3 times in the 18th century and absorbed into Prussia, Austria, and Russia.
Thanks for the post PTV. Master Chopin was the quintessential A-B-A composer. He would bring the listener to the crest of stress. But then deliver the listener to the calm of loveliness. Etude in E being a classic example. It is this character that the Great Masters always cultivated. Sadly, today's drone rubbish of hypnosis does nothing for the human spirit.
The fear of being buried alive was a pretty common thing in those days. Edgar Allan Poe (who died Oct. 7 1849) wrote quite a few stories about that fear. Stories such as the Premature Burial and Berenice.
Why they started to tie bells to the dead in cemeteries. If the string rang the bell, it alerted people that the buried person was still alive...hence the prase “dead ringer.”
Thanks for this excellent video! If anyone wants to deep dive into the Polish Independence movement, I recommend the Peasant Prince by Alexander Storczynski, about Poland's famous revolutionary, Tadeusz Kosciuszko, for us Americans was the engineer whose plans were the ones Benedict Arnold tried to steal and who tried to use his backpay from the revolution to buy Thomas Jefferson's slaves' freedom. Chopin's father fought at one of the last decisive battles in the uprising.
Saw the movie of him called A Song to Remember, Georges Sand was also no saint to him in the movie. I like your videos, I love different ranges of music.
There are amazing composers that shouldnt be compared to eachother but chopin was just on another level putting emotions in his pieces and interpretation. Its only my opinion but i think his rare even among geniuses!
so the Spanish doctors were right,i would love to visit Mallorca. lol; Liked the video it's my 2nd time watching it's very interesting! wonderful storytelling. thanks
@@Pazaluz You have a valid point. Notice your word "industry." There is an undeniable artistry to the piano competitions of Chopin. He didn't rely on technology to compose.
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I always picture of Chopin playing in a dark room lit only by a single candle.
I think he did that. He always enjoyed playing in the salon with his friends rather than concerts. He only performed around 40 while other people had hundreds
I took piano lessons from age five until seventeen. There are dozens of classical composer's, but my teacher had a penchant
for Chopin's music! I seemed to be drawn
to his music also. I found it to be beautiful
and relatively easy to play. In fact, my piano
teacher was so impressed, she began to
refer to me as, "Chopin's girl!" Now I wish
that she had given me a wider range of
classical pieces, but she concentrated on
Chopin - not exclusively, but he was her
main focus! So I love his music, especially
his Fantasie Impromptu and Polonaise in
A Flat Major! There was a certain girl my
teacher bragged about to her other students.
This girl played much better than ALL her
other students, and she also played mostly
Chopin. She would close every recital with
stunning renditions of a piece of his music.
When she aged out (our teacher preferred
to concentrate on school-aged children,
although she also taught a very few adults.)
I stopped my piano lessons when I graduated
from High School. Now, I wish I had given my
playing more imagination, like the person who
played Chopin by candlelight! That is adding
romance to music composed by probably the
most romantic of all classical composers!
@@nancyayers6355 thank you for sharing your beautiful experience
@@nancyayers6355 some are easy to “play” until you hear recording of Rubinstein , Horowitz , and other greats interpret Chopin. His music takes a lot of musicality , not just being able to play the notes.
That’s exactly how I imagined him to lol
Chopin wasn't shy and quiet. It seems he never felt quite at home when in France but in Poland he was known to be joyful, a good sport with a great sense of humour. He had a talent for making people laugh and could be a bit naughty at times. He was also very good at drawing and his teachers often caught him drawing their caricatures. He would spend his holidays in the country where he wrote and edited a parody-like newspaper for his family and friends. He also liked to play with folk music bands. He wasn't shy towards women either. He often accompanied Konstancja Gładkowska, his first love, and they kept writing each other for a year after he left. He was also engaged to Maria Wodzińska. All in all, at least in Poland, he was the opposite of the moody neurotic Chopin people tend to picture.
Source?
@@owenreese5549 his many biographies
@@sylwiatime thank you! I’ll check them out. I wanted something more in depth than this video
@@owenreese5549 for starters you can go to the website of the Chopin Institute in Warsaw and click the links there to read his biography. However, it seems the Polish version is longer than the English one, so maybe you can read the Polish one with Google translate. You can also look for "Chopin listy karykatury" to find caricatures drawn by young Chopin.
Ludwika protecc
Ludwika attac
But most importantly
To Poland she took Chopin’s heart bacc
Ludwicca lol
Chopin memes are so wholesome
"He died because of Tuberculosis"
*Red Dead Redemption Flashbacks*
Aw jeez. Yup.
spoilers
Mucoviscidosis.
"Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art."
SERIOUSLY google some of the other quotes by this man. His music and talent was obviously on another level, maybe even SUPER-HUMAN level, but it looks like so was his speech
@2:59, In 1830 Poland was already partitioned and absorbed into 3 neighbouring countries: Russia, Prussia (Germany) and the Austro-Hungarian Empire (Austria). Warsaw was under the Russian occupation during partitions. This November 1830 Uprising was one of many where Poles tried to regain independence. They finally did it in 1918 after 123 years of partitions.
Fabulous. I like the chapter in Chopin's life where the French government told him he could visit Paris, at first, but not stay long. Then he played his new works and he was a smash hit. France welcomed him after is concert, and he stayed as long as he wanted. He played, he stayed.
Piękno muzyki Fryderyka Chopina to fenomen graniczący z cudem ❤️
Thank you! I'm writing a research paper on Chopin and this super helped! He was way cooler than I thought, I barely knew anything about him then, and he is now my favorite composer!!
Such an interesting video about my favorite composer! Just thinking about Chopin and Liszt's friendship makes me dream; two geniuses exploring the world together with two completely opposite views.
Well done video!
Wrote a lot for piano, which was his forte, humorous...
:)
I very much enjoy the Scherzo 4 playing in the background.
Thanks a million for this lively documentary. In particular the sensitive humour; I found the characters' quotes both informative and entertaining. By the way, as a 15 year-old, I once visited Georges Sand's countryside cottage in l'Indre, situated within a rural county in the Berry province in France. She wrote fantasy tales and legends inspired by folk tradition, entitled "Contes Rustiques du Berry". As for Chopin, his two piano concerti remain my favourite works written by his hand up till this day. They're incredibly passionate and used to practically stir me to tears, shaking my innermost self when I listened to them as a teenager.
Thanks for this channel. Really appreciated. Nice to see a friendly face from home, too.
Mostly *piano* , this was his *forte* 😂
What an oxymoron!!
@@mooses1988not really. The full name of the piano is pianoforte.
Zelazowa Wola, not Warszawa, although he did move there later in his childhood
nah... not Warsaw... He was born in Zelazowa Wola :)
To be honest he was just raised there. Zelazowa Wola wasn't the house of his family. That was a place where his father worked as a teacher of a richman's kids. Chopin's family lived there and what's interesting, they moved in when Chopin was 3 and moved out when he was 7.
@@gothenix I have been personally in museum located in Zelazowa Wola at Chopis family house where he was born. This is history Fact. So either whole museum lies to poeople and dont know where Chopin was born, or u are a Polish history genius. But more likely u read something on random website didnt check if its true and trying to be smart.
I had an assignment on one of his most brilliant musical works, the Revelutional Etude Op.10 No 12 it was awesome.
Love me some Chopin. Love learning about him. Thanks!
love Chopin
In Terra Haute IN as a sales person, I stopped at Columbia Music, located there. As I had finished my business, and as I was leaving, I spied a table with free cassette tapes. I picked up a Best of Chopin, walked out, jumped in my car and plopped it into my radio/tape player in the car and drove all the way back from Terra Haute to Indianapolis in heaven.
can you make another video on Chopin including his visit to Great Britain and relationship with Jane Stirling?
Frederic Chopin is my favourite composer. It is worth mentioning Jane Stirling, a Scottish lady who played a big part in Chopin's life towards the end, bringing him to England and Scotland, much of the time he was quite ill. After his death, Jane Stirling was known as "Chopin's widow". It was an unrequited love. She loved him, but he did not love her, only saw her as a friend and pupil. It was Jane Stirling who disposed of Chopin's effects and manuscripts after his untimely death. I could listen to Chopin's music all day and all night.
'It was Jane Stirling who disposed of Chopin's effects and manuscripts after his untimely death." Source? As far as I know, it was his sister Ludwika and his childhood Polish friends living in Paris who took care of that.
@@iaf6563 Source is Wiki - Jane Stirling. Many years ago I read a biography of Frederic Chopin. It was written two or three years after his death. I can't remember the author but the central library in Aberdeen, Scotland only had one copy and it had to be specially reserved with no extension on the time it could be borrowed. It was written by someone who knew him well, also Franz Liszt and a few others. It was a fascinating insight into the great man's life.
you really deserve more subs! thank you for awesome videos!
Thanks for making this video!
Good video, but a small correction (not sure if someone made it yet) - he was actually born in a small village near Warsaw called Zelazowa Wola.
Yeah. Apparently this village has 65 inhabitants, so the birth of chopin was pretty much the only thing that happened there
I recommend Polish directer Andrzej Zulawski's film La Note Bleue which is an expressionistic biopic of Chopin.
Thanks!
@enigma desire for love is good but it isn't super factual
You are a very entertaining teacher. I very much enjoy your little talks. Thank you!
Awesome history!!! . . . also really enjoyed the George/Frederic relationship "downhill" effect at 8:44!!!
Same
Thank you. Really enjoyed this. Lovely energy.
you are really freaking amazing compiling all this information and providing this to us.thanku so much.you should have a lot more subscribers.
Thank you for all of these fantastic videos!
Very Good history i am glad people know about me till this day
Great job. I love classical music: moreso the stories behind the composers. Thank you.
I was always wondering the relationship between Chopin and Liszt, anyone else realizes some similarity in their music style?
Yes, though personality-wise they seemed completely opposite! Liszt was very showy and bombastic, whereas Chopin hated big public performances and was very private.
I think Chopin is like Li Yundi and Liszt is like Lang Lang :) I watched a lot of your videos, I think you can post some of your performance. You will get a lot more subscribers if you do so
@@fairwinaskara yeah and in the same way Li Yundi is superior to Lang Lang as a pianist, Chopin is superior to Liszt as a composer
@@leo17921 are you sure about that?
liszt was genius but chopin was more than genius.. he died too early
Thumbs up for sure. I wrote my undergard paper on Chopin...Yes, I was a Music Major of some fort...You are wonderful and thank you...Jack Baker NYC
Happy birthday to him!!
You should have more subscribers 🙂
they won't let me subscribe twice :(
for a piano channel she has a lot of subs now
THX!!! I have a report to do on him. This is the only video I found about him! :D thx again!
+Vicious Slayer6 Glad I could help, good luck with the report! :)
pianoTV I DID GREAT! YOUR THE BEST!!!!!!
Vicious Slayer6 Congrats :)
pianoTV thx
I love you!
Great video! Glad I found your channel.
Thanks for the help on my assignment!!!
Excellent and informative video on my favorite composer. I'm just revisiting his prelude in e minor, an easy piece.
Love this video! It let me know more about the story behind the music.
Ayyyeeee I'm Polish AND French
When you match Poles and French you get
Chopin
Madame Curie
@@qzg7857 Maria Skłodowska - Curie had both parents who were Polish but of course France helped her achieve many things:) She's very interesting person, I read about her and she seemd to be really good, kind and talented woman:)
ayyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
@@qzg7857and Morgane Polanski (the daughter of Roman Polanski)
Franz Liszt looks like lord farquad from shrek 😂
I thought so too
Omg he does 😂
honeysuckle - Piano fuck u
honeysuckle - except Liszt wasn’t an utter douche
OMG, I thought I was only one who thought that! 😂
8:10 "we are getting off this island..." - that cast away picture fits hilariously to the scene :)
Very nice overview, thank you!
These facts are interesting and memorable! 🎹✨
According to a Polish documentary from 1995(?), Chopin was born February 22nd, 1810 OUTSIDE Warsaw at Zelazowa Wola. FYI, Poland didn't exist politically during Chopin's lifetime, having already been partitioned 3 times in the 18th century and absorbed into Prussia, Austria, and Russia.
Loved this! Thank you so much!
Wow, I love this. Great channel, and interesting to watch/listen.
I like your videos ! Greetings from Tunisia
You are a great story teller.
Chopin wasn't born in Warsaw, he was born in Żelazowa Wola :)
I’m loving these history videos! I hope you make more. Following now!
I liked when you said Chopin & Frederic
+Avi Young subscribed
Thanks for the post PTV. Master Chopin was the quintessential A-B-A composer. He would bring the listener to the crest of stress. But then deliver the listener to the calm of loveliness. Etude in E being a classic example. It is this character that the Great Masters always cultivated. Sadly, today's drone rubbish of hypnosis does nothing for the human spirit.
Thank you
I loved this! Great presentation :)
Poor Chopin crushed so many times as an sensitive person but never understood by those closest to him...
The fear of being buried alive was a pretty common thing in those days. Edgar Allan Poe (who died Oct. 7 1849) wrote quite a few stories about that fear. Stories such as the Premature Burial and Berenice.
Interesting!
Why they started to tie bells to the dead in cemeteries. If the string rang the bell, it alerted people that the buried person was still alive...hence the prase “dead ringer.”
So "George" and "Frederick" didn't have a "Handel" on their relationship.
~Ba dum tsss~
Hahaha
Wyatt Watts 😂
Especially when they were more Elgarly
😂😂😂
it's a wonderful and passionate explanation...but at the end...all that i can remember are two simple words.....green eyes
thank you ! a wonderful video !!
Chopin my favorite.
Great host :)
Goddess bless you forever! I love your videos! thanks!
This was the funniest history video ever!❤
Really like this video! thank you so much for explaining
chopin is love
chopin is life
love the channel fantastic!!
i loved this
Thank you for such an informative bio.
thank you!
Thanx alot i really enjoy your videos
Quirky yet lively. I like it.
Thanks for this excellent video! If anyone wants to deep dive into the Polish Independence movement, I recommend the Peasant Prince by Alexander Storczynski, about Poland's famous revolutionary, Tadeusz Kosciuszko, for us Americans was the engineer whose plans were the ones Benedict Arnold tried to steal and who tried to use his backpay from the revolution to buy Thomas Jefferson's slaves' freedom. Chopin's father fought at one of the last decisive battles in the uprising.
great video!
Very interesting video, thanks!
thank u
u helped me get a A for AMeb
I barely know anything about this guy but he's Polish and plays music. This guy and Liszt are two gods I don't know much about.
Saw the movie of him called A Song to Remember, Georges Sand was also no saint to him in the movie. I like your videos, I love different ranges of music.
Wat was she like tell meh
@@hannahquintua Well, she was portrayed as a somewhat selfish woman. The entire movie is on UA-cam if you're still interested!
You're so funny. I really like the biographies you make
Good job! 👏 👏
Came to this channel by accident. What an amazing and clever presenter! Just subscribed, Brilliant channel #1
There are amazing composers that shouldnt be compared to eachother but chopin was just on another level putting emotions in his pieces and interpretation. Its only my opinion but i think his rare even among geniuses!
looooooove him
I LOVE the doctor who referense.
Awesome! Educational and entertaining as well :)
so the Spanish doctors were right,i would love to visit Mallorca. lol; Liked the video it's my 2nd time watching it's very interesting! wonderful storytelling. thanks
I think he had a right to get mad at Liszt. It's kind of insulting to make changes to his friend's pieces.
That's what everyone is doing in todays music industry. Sampling and covering.
Chopin doesn't mind Liszt improvising on his etudes. Just not his Nocturnes and Ballade bec.these pieces were already good as it is.
@@Pazaluz You have a valid point. Notice your word "industry." There is an undeniable artistry to the piano competitions of Chopin. He didn't rely on technology to compose.
0:36
THAT IMAGE OMG HELP I CAN'T XDDDD
its not that funny
@@gamerboi5238 It is
@Frédéric Chopin Cgopin im so sorry i-i-i-i did not k-know you were h-here uhhhhh. Hi?
@Frédéric Chopin you ain't got nothing on Tekashi 69
@Frédéric Chopin sorry did not mean to hurt you, you know, you are a legend in my eyes. But, 69 is a true icon. My opinion
thanks you saved my life from failing my music history test
I know this can pass as a sad comment in the internet, where superficial judgment prevails, but I like how you talk to me like I'm your friend
hey it's fine
I love your stories.
Cool video and nice approach!
it is not creepy to take his heart home ritually, cus homesickness, romantic and sensibility is the name of Chopin
Haha Your Liszt impression was spot on!!! lol, subscribed ;) love your videos and your beautiful to boot.... Cheers