I don't know by what miracle it has come about.but today that sort of thing is indispensable to me. "I have my place among ambassadors, princes, ministers.
His concertizing became less frequent and was limited to the semi-public world of the drawing room. Through his aristocratic Polish friends, Chopin knew the influential Rothschilds and soon could set up a teaching studio that was his primary support and allowed him to live in an elegant style for most of his short life. Chopin's debut recital was the talk of the city. The supreme painters of the time, Delacroix (painter of the most famous Chopin portrait) and Ingres lived there as did many great composers including Liszt, Rossini, Berlioz and the important pianists Kalkbrenner, Thalberg and Herz. Hugo, Balzac, Sand and Heine were among the writers. Paris was the great center of culture at this time and the home of many artists of the highest caliber. After many foreign concerts during 18, he arrived in Paris in 1831 where he was to stay until his death in 1849. By age nineteen he had written his F minor piano concerto and had played two concerts in Vienna. Beginning in 1822, he studied harmony and counterpoint at the Warsaw Conservatory with Joseph Elsner who encouraged his appreciation of Bach. The Polish expatriate who spent most of his creative life in Paris is the first nationalist composer.Ĭhopin was born in 1810 in Poland to a French father and Polish mother. This sense of classical proportion and elegance combined with a love of bel canto operatic singing and his Polish heritage form Chopin's basic aesthetic. Berlioz and Mendelssohn didn't interest him and Liszt was often vulgar. Schumann, who had been extravagant in his praise of Chopin in introducing him to Germany, was too idiosyncratic. Ironically, Chopin didn't care much for the music of his illustrious contemporaries even though many were friends or acquaintances. With Chopin we leave the world of the eighteenth century piano completely and enter a new realm of idiomatic writing that grows directly out of the technique of the instrument and its development that brought it close to our modern instrument in sonority.
The piano music of Frédéric Chopin is among the most original and influential work of the nineteenth century.
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