
Thus Chopin earned a reputation as an exceptional pianist, piano teacher and composer.ĭuring his ten-year relationship with the feminist writer George Sand in Nohant, he wrote his most important compositions in her summer residence. He avoided public concerts, but played it like in intimate settings as exclusive salons and at home for friends.


The exile would never see his homeland, he settled in the thriving cultural Paris. When in 1830 broke the November Uprising … in Poland, spent the twenty Chopin in Vienna. The prodigy grew up in a middle class family that dwelt in the world of the Warsaw intelligentsia. " His ballades, mazurkas, polonaises, preludes, etudes and nocturnes are among the most popular standard works ever written for piano.

He was a master of the 'grand making the small form. Chopin is one of the greatest composers of the Romantic piano tradition.
