The story of musician Chopin

Chopin is one of the most influential and popular piano composers in history and one of the most important figures in the history of Polish music. I We share the story of the musician Chopin with everyone, welcome to read it!

Chopin’s patriotic story

Due to being far away from the motherland and relatives, homesickness and feelings for Deep worries about the future of his native Poland plagued Chopin and seriously damaged his health. The lung disease cannot be cured for a long time, and it gets worse day by day. He sweats profusely and becomes very weak when he moves around. On February 16, 1848, Chopin held his last concert in Paris. That day, the concert hall was covered with flowers, and the tickets for the concert had been sold out days in advance. Before the performance, Chopin was carried backstage in a sedan chair. Although he was too weak to hold on, his performance that night was still so outstanding and gripping, as full of life and poetry, beautiful and moving as when he was in his prime. When he hit the last note with all his strength, the audience's eyes were focused on him. Chopin removed his fingers from the keys, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and slowly stood up from the piano. At this time, the silent concert hall suddenly erupted into a burst of thunderous applause, which hit Chopin like waves of the sea. Excessive hard work and excitement, Chopin felt golden flowers flying in front of his eyes, everything was shaking, and people quickly helped him down.

On the second day of the concert, Chopin's condition worsened: fever, asthma, and extreme weakness. The doctor who treated Chopin felt that this was not a good sign for a patient with serious lung disease. At this time, it was when the Revolution of 1848 swept across Europe. The flames of the Paris people's struggle against tyrants and for democracy and freedom have been ignited. Lying on the hospital bed, Chopin looked at the firelight reflected on the windowpane, listening to the roar of guns in the distance and the slogans of "Long Live Liberty" on the streets. Before long, the flames of revolution spread throughout Europe, and people rushed to tell each other: Berlin had a revolution, Vienna had a revolution, and the people of Milan, Italy, drove away the Austrian invaders. Mickiewicz was organizing the Polish Legion. An uprising broke out in the Poznań region of Poland - the sickly Chopin could not restrain his excitement when he heard the news, and there was hope for the Polish motherland. Some Polish compatriots were about to return home to fight. Chopin was deeply moved. No matter how the doctor tried to dissuade him, he insisted on going to the station to see his compatriots off. After returning from the station, the excitement and fatigue of action further worsened his severe lung disease. His heart beat rapidly and he gasped for air.

He delayed his illness for a year. In October 1849, the 38-year-old "piano poet" Chopin passed away. In accordance with Chopin's will, his friends took out the silver cup they brought from Poland eighteen years ago and sprinkled the soil of their motherland that had been stored in the cup for eighteen years on his coffin. He missed his motherland all his life, and when he died, he wanted to leave smelling the fragrance of the soil of his motherland. In accordance with Chopin's will, his friends put his heart in a box and transported it back to Poland from Paris. The innocent heart can only rest in peace when it returns to the embrace of the motherland.

Chopin’s heart is placed in the Holy Cross Cathedral in Warsaw. During World War II, German fascists occupied Poland. During those days of white terror, the Polish people risked their lives to protect the box containing Chopin's heart to protect it from destruction by the German invaders. On October 17, 1949, the centenary of Chopin's death, Chopin's heart was solemnly welcomed back into the ancient church.

Although Chopin passed away, his heart will always beat among the people of the motherland, and his music has become a precious cultural heritage, left to the people of the world.

The Story of Chopin

Frederic Francesco Chopin, a great Polish musician, loved Polish folk music since he was a child. He wrote "Polonaise" at the age of seven. He debuted on stage at the age of 20 and became a recognized pianist and composer in Warsaw before he was twenty.

Chopin’s first teacher was a strange figure. He always wore a light yellow coat and trousers, patent leather boots and a gorgeous but tacky vest. According to him, he was in an auction house. Purchased belongings of the last king of Poland. He always carried a long pencil with which he used to hit the heads and fingers of slow and unruly students.

It was this strange teacher who made Chopin fall in love with the piano and play it beautifully. As a result, the young Chopin gradually became famous in Warsaw as the "second Mozart". At the age of ten, he was taken to play in front of a great singer. The singer was very happy and gave him a watch. Soon after, the Russian Tsar heard him playing and immediately gave him a diamond ring as a gift. There was this sentence in a European newspaper at that time: "God gave Mozart to Austria, but gave Chopin to Poland." When Chopin was still very young and couldn't memorize music, he could make up some sketches to make people happy. The teacher wrote it on the manuscript paper for him. Chopin later studied composition and other courses at the Warsaw Academy where his father taught French. When he was seventeen, he finally left school to devote himself to music.

To cultivate a musician, in addition to talent, a good and persuasive teacher is the most important thing. Discovering geniuses, inspiring geniuses, and cultivating geniuses are all what a qualified music teacher should do. , especially for children, the musical ideas and ways of thinking brought to them by the first music teacher are likely to be input into the child's subconscious and will be difficult to change throughout his life. Therefore, find a good music teacher for your child. , let him give your child a positive influence and give your child a more advanced starting line.

Chopin’s short story

When Chopin was three years old, there was a party at home. All the other children were dancing, but little Chopin was watching the movements of his mother’s fingers when she played the piano. After the party, he sat in front of his mother's piano and played a melodious tune. His mother was surprised and hired a piano teacher for him the next day. Little Chopin was very serious about learning the piano, but due to his young age and small hands, it was difficult to press the keys. Before going to bed every night, he put wooden plugs between his fingers to make the distance between his fingers wider. After five years of hard practice, Chopin was able to play the piano on the big stage when he was eight years old. Thousands of listeners were intoxicated by the beautiful music, and thunderous applause filled the theater.

Chopin loved to play the piano, and he was not afraid of hardship and practiced hard, and finally became a world-class pianist. If a person wants to achieve a career, he must make extraordinary efforts!

Chopin loved the piano since he was a child, and he often got up to play the piano alone in the middle of the night. When he was four years old, his father taught him to play the piano, and when he was six years old, he formally studied with Mr. Jiffney.

When Chopin was young, his parents were extremely worried because the little boy would cry whenever he heard the sound of the piano. It turned out that Chopin was moved to tears because he liked it very much. Soon everyone found out This little boy can actually climb up on the piano chair, tap the keyboard with his little hands, and dance when he hears a sound popping up. When his sister played the piano, he also clamored for his mother to play the piano. So, his mother tried to get the four-year-old Chopin to learn piano with his seven-year-old sister, but before long, he surpassed his sister. When he was six years old, his parents finally understood that he had a talent for music, so they allowed him to formally study music with the court pianist Divny.

On his eighth birthday, Chopin gave a public performance, playing Lovitz's Piano Concerto at a charity concert. At the age of eight, he performed at a concert in Warsaw, surprising the audience, and was therefore known as the "Second Mozart." From this period onwards, he often composed improvised music and played it immediately, and he was very good at this kind of improvisation.

From the age of twelve, Chopin studied harmony and counterpoint with Eisner, the director of the Warsaw Conservatory of Music. This excellent professor soon discovered that Chopin had excellent creative ability to become a composer. So avoid stupid teaching methods and try to let him develop freely.

In the autumn of 1828, a stagecoach was rushing from Berlin to Warsaw, the capital of Poland. When it ran to a small town on the way, unexpectedly, the horse's hoof fell off and the carriage could not continue forward. The coachman had no choice but to take the guests into an inn to rest.

In this simple hotel, there is a quite old piano, with a thick layer of dust accumulated on the cover.

Suddenly an old man murmured:

“It’s really bad, I don’t know how long I have to wait before we can start again.”

He pointed at the piano and asked ∶

“Can anyone play the piano? Please play some music and relax everyone!”

Hearing these words, an eighteen-year-old young man Come forward.

Then, he calmly put his hands on the keyboard.

Everyone was surprised that such a beautiful sound came out of the old piano.

After a while, a crowd of people surrounded the piano. The young man played more vigorously and brilliantly, which fascinated people deeply.

After the last song was played, the old man smiled and said to the young man:

"I am a retired old organist. In my long career, I have never heard If Mozart were alive and heard this performance, he would definitely hold your hand and say: "You are my successor!"

The young man said happily. The beautiful and noble voice replied:

"I really don't deserve your compliment. My name is Frédéric Fran?ois Chopin. ”

This anecdote happened when Chopin was eighteen years old.

Chopin’s love story

When Chopin walked into the splendid aristocratic salon in Paris , it is a rare golden age in the history of world literature. People can see great writers Balzac, Hugo, Musset, Heine, Alexandre Dumas, Stendhal and George Sand talking loudly in the salon; Appreciate the masterpieces of the great painters Ingres, Delacroix, Russo, etc., and listen to the unparalleled performances of the great musicians Liszt, Rossini, Mendelssohn, and Schumann, each of whom is a dazzling soul. Stars, and these stars gathered together are like a star-studded sky.

Chopin, a stranger who had just arrived, was the first to recognize Chopin's genius. He introduced Chopin to a Paris salon and introduced him to a woman. Unexpectedly, this would determine Chopin's fate for the rest of his life.

On this day, Chopin played many tunes impromptuly. He was so excited that he was completely immersed in the music, forgetting the audience. When he finished playing, he looked up and smelled the fragrance of Violette's perfume, and then he found a pair of passionate eyes staring at him. The woman was dressed simply, sitting elegantly and demurely next to his piano. She was not beautiful, short in stature, and had begun to gain weight, but she had a pair of beautiful eyes and a high philosopher's forehead, which gave her a sense of beauty. Manliness.

George Sand was interested in Chopin’s temperament at first sight. However, Chopin did not like her immediately.

He even said this to his friends. : That George Sand is a disgusting woman. I don’t know if she is really a woman. I highly doubt this. ”

George Sand is indeed a special woman. She despises tradition, drinks strong liquor, smokes cigars, loves horse riding, and likes men's clothing. She is full of swear words when she curses, but she is tender and romantic in every possible way when talking about love. She is a passionate woman in her 30s and the mother of two children. She and the poet Musset had just parted ways. She knows everything about men. If she likes Chopin, she has a way to make Chopin like her.

Chopin was a man, but he had a feminine temperament. He is pale, slender, weak, melancholy, and often exhausted from excitement. He is not yet 30 years old, and his genius is admired by women. However, two broken loves made him doubt women's emotions. He lives in loneliness and cannot get rid of his desire for love. A shadow of melancholy fell over him. He felt that his creative power was declining, his thoughts became weak, his imagination became pale, and his inspiration gradually dried up. He needs a strong and dynamic love to awaken the passion in his heart and re-inject the vitality of art into his feeble fingers.

The anxiety about fate and the anxiety about artistic creativity were like double shadows and double shackles, oppressing his heart. His dry heart is looking forward to the moisture of love.

Chopin’s emotional defense quickly collapsed under Mrs. Sang’s attack. They fell in love. They often met in the Auteur district, where Mrs. Sand rented a room in an apartment. Lister and his future wife rented another room. The four of them often dine together and go to salons together.

The whole of Paris was surprised. Well-intentioned advice and malicious attacks were in vain, they were in harmony. His falling in love with this woman is inevitable and tragic. He needs such a woman. This masculine woman is the indispensable complement to this feminine man.

True friends are happy for Chopin, because love not only makes him look handsome and healthy, but also makes him emotionally active, feeling good and full of confidence. The trance, melancholy and sadness of the past were completely gone. His creative talent gained extraordinary vitality. Chopin came to Mrs. Sand's manor in Nohan. This is a typical French countryside, with a completely different flavor from Chopin's hometown. This stone house sits on the beautiful grassland. At night, the rough and strange singing of the shepherds comes from the distance in the fields. These are All made Chopin very excited. Writers, poets, and artists also often come here as guests. Chopin enjoyed the greatest rights here. He occupied two quiet houses, one with a piano, writing desk and sofa bought specially for him; the other was a quiet bedroom. Here, he feels at home.

For the first time in many years, Chopin received meticulous care. This was also the happiest and most stable period in his life. Chopin's heyday of creative maturity, wisdom and power finally arrived. If it had not been for George Sand's love and the influence of the group of great writer friends around George Sand, it might not have been easy for his outstanding talent to bear fruit and reach a high artistic realm. During this period, he wrote some of the most important works of his life; he realized that this was the result of the calm state of mind and calm creative environment that came with Mrs. Sand's love.

However, Chopin could not work peacefully. His body became increasingly unwell, and the shadow of illness threatened him from time to time; the musical activities and social life in Paris were also devouring his health. Chopin's life turned into music, but his vitality was declining day by day. Mrs. Sand jokingly called him: "My dear corpse." Chopin tasted death several times, and gradually became overly sensitive and full of horrific fantasies. His thoughts were always focused on death. But Mrs. Sang is still full of life and never satisfied.

They had to break up. They lived together for nine years.

Shortly after breaking up with George Sand, Chopin, who had a patriotic spirit, fell ill on tour (in order to give Poland enough money to fight fascism), and later died of overwork.

Some people say that it was the fire of love ignited by George Sand that set Chopin's creative genius on fire. Some people also say that it was this woman's overly passionate love that worsened Chopin's illness and led to his untimely death.

Some people praised her as a great woman. Some people also cursed her as a slutty prostitute.

Some people praise the marriage of music and literature. Others decried the disproportionate union.

However, no one can deny that the nine years they lived together were the most important stage of artistic creation in Chopin's life and the peak of his most glorious creativity. After Chopin broke up with George Sand, he never wrote any important work again. Chopin was aware of this. In the last moment of his life, he had no resentment towards George Sand, only love. He could not forget George Sand.

The love between Chopin and George Sand was a mature love, a love that blossomed and bore fruit, a love that gave him artistic vitality. He could not forget George Sand, nor could he forget the glorious years at the peak of his creative power.

At the last moment of his life, he also said: "I really want to see her." ;