Historical person
Frédéric Chopin
1810–1849
Frédéric Chopin was born in the Duchy of Warsaw in 1810 and emerged as an exceptional pianist and composer while still young. After leaving Poland in 1830 he settled in Paris, where he became part of a cosmopolitan artistic world while maintaining close connections with Polish émigré society.
Chopin's mature career was centred in Paris, where he rarely gave large public concerts but earned a living through composition, publication and private teaching. His relationship with the writer George Sand formed an important part of his personal life during the 1830s and 1840s. Persistent ill health worsened in his final years, and he died in Paris in 1849 at the age of thirty-nine.
In Adam Zamoyski’s Chopin, Adam Zamoyski’s biography follows Frédéric Chopin from his childhood and musical education in Poland through his departure in 1830 and the Paris career that made him one of the defining composers of the nineteenth century.
Non Fiction
Non Fiction featuring Frédéric Chopin (1 book)
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