Frédéric Chopin citáty
Frédéric Chopin
Datum narození: 22. únor 1810
Datum úmrtí: 17. říjen 1849
Další jména: Frédéric François Chopin
Frédéric François Chopin, výslovnost [ʃopeːn], rodným jménem Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin byl polský skladatel vážné hudby a klavírní virtuos období romantismu, který proslul jako „básník klavíru“.
Citáty Frédéric Chopin
„Jsem spokojen s tím, co jsem tu našel; mám nejlepší hudebníky na světě a nejlepší operu na světe.“
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Zdroj: [Ruggieri, Eve, 1997, Chopin, Iris, Praha, 1., 5, 80-85893-09-06]
„Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano!“
As quoted in Chopin and the Swedish Nightingale.
Zdroj: Jorgensen's Chopin and the Swedish Nightingale (2003), p. 26
„Time is still the best critic, and patience the best teacher.“
As quoted in Chopin : Pianist and Teacher as Seen by His Pupils.
Zdroj: Chopin : Pianist and Teacher as Seen by His Pupils (1986) by Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger, Roy Howat, Naomi Shohet, and Krysia Osostowicz, p. 23
„Play Mozart in memory of me— and I will hear you.“
Murmured by Chopin on his death-bed.
Zdroj: The opera reader, Biancolli, 1953, p. 271
„I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness.“
As quoted in Chopin.
Variant translation: I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness. And yet I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.
Varianta: I wish I could throw off the thoughts that poison my happiness, and yet I love to indulge in them;
Zdroj: Chopin's Letters

As quoted in Chopin : Pianist and Teacher as Seen by His Pupils.
Zdroj: Chopin : Pianist and Teacher as Seen by His Pupils (1986) by Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger, Roy Howat, Naomi Shohet, and Krysia Osostowicz, p. 16
As quoted in his letter to his father, dated December 6th 1817[citation needed]
As quoted in his letter to Jan Bialoblocki, written in Zelazowa Wola and dated back to December 24th 1826[citation needed]
As quoted in Chopin's Letter.
Zdroj: Chopin's Letter (1988) by Henryk Opieński,E. L. Voynich, p. 4
As quoted in If Not God, Then What?
Zdroj: If Not God, Then What? (2007) by Joshua Fost, p. 93