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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“.

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Frédéric Chopin3

polský skladatel 1810 - 1849

„Jsem spokojen s tím, co jsem tu našel; mám nejlepší hudebníky na světě a nejlepší operu na světe.“ o Paříži

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Frédéric Chopin3

polský skladatel 1810 - 1849

„Ježto mě ten kašel udusí, zapřísahám vás, dejte otevřít moje tělo, abych nebyl pohřben za živa.“

Frédéric Chopin3

polský skladatel 1810 - 1849

„Ženy jsou jako myšlenky, které sice nejsou pravdivé, ale zato se nám líbí.“

Frédéric Chopin19

Polish composer 1810 - 1849

„I tell my piano the things I used to tell you“

Frédéric Chopin19

Polish composer 1810 - 1849

„How strange! This bed on which I shall lie has been slept on by more than one dying man, but today it does not repel me! Who knows what corpses have lain on it and for how long? But is a corpse any worse than I? A corpse too knows nothing of its father, mother or sisters or Titus. Nor has a corpse a sweetheart. A corpse, too, is pale, like me. A corpse is cold, just as I am cold and indifferent to everything. A corpse has ceased to live, and I too have had enough of life…. Why do we live on through this wretched life which only devours us and serves to turn us into corpses? The clocks in the Stuttgart belfries strike the midnight hour. Oh how many people have become corpses at this moment! Mothers have been torn from their children, children from their mothers - how many plans have come to nothing, how much sorrow has sprung from these depths, and how much relief!… Virtue and vice have come in the end to the same thing! It seems that to die is man’s finest action - and what might be his worst? To be born, since that is the exact opposite of his best deed. It is therefore right of me to be angry that I was ever born into this world! Why was I not prevented from remaining in a world where I am utterly useless? What good can my existence bring to anyone? … But wait, wait! What’s this? Tears? How long it is since they flowed! How is this, seeing that an arid melancholy has held me for so long in its grip? How good it feels - and sorrowful. Sad but kindly tears! What a strange emotion! Sad but blessed. It is not good for one to be sad, and yet how pleasant it is - a strange state…“

Frédéric Chopin19

Polish composer 1810 - 1849

„I wish I could throw off the thoughts that poison my happiness, and yet I love to indulge in them;“ Chopin's Letters

Frédéric Chopin19

Polish composer 1810 - 1849

„It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.“

Frédéric Chopin19

Polish composer 1810 - 1849

„I don't know where there can be so many pianists as in Paris, so many asses and so many virtuosi.“

Frédéric Chopin19

Polish composer 1810 - 1849

„Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.“

Frédéric Chopin19

Polish composer 1810 - 1849

„When one does a thing, it appears good, otherwise one would not write it. Only later comes reflection, and one discards or accepts the thing. Time is the best censor, and patience a most excellent teacher.“

Frédéric Chopin19

Polish composer 1810 - 1849

„I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, and yet I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.“

Frédéric Chopin19

Polish composer 1810 - 1849

„Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man.“

Frédéric Chopin19

Polish composer 1810 - 1849

„I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness.“

Frédéric Chopin19

Polish composer 1810 - 1849

„You know how easily things grow out of nothing, when they pass through a mouth that smears them all over and makes something else out of them“ Chopin's Letters

Frédéric Chopin19

Polish composer 1810 - 1849

„Kalkbrenner has made me an offer; that I should study with him for three years, and he will make something really - really out of me. I answered that I know how much I lack; but that I cannot exploit him, and three years is too much. But he has convinced me that I can play admirably when I am in the mood, and badly when I am not; a thing which never happens to him. After close examination he told me that I have no school; that I am on an excellent road, but can slip off the track. That after his death, or when he finally stops playing, there will be no representative of the great piano-forte school. That even if I wish it, I cannot build up a new school without knowing the old one; in a word : that I am not a perfected machine, and that this hampers the flow of my thoughts. That I have a mark in composition; that it would be a pity not to become what I have the promise of being...“

Frédéric Chopin19

Polish composer 1810 - 1849

„So, having dried my tear-swollen eyelids, I take up my pen to inquire of you, are you alive or did you die? If you are dead, please let me know, and I will tell the cook, for ever since she heard about it she has been saying her prayers.“ Chopin's Letters

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