Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) Polish pianist and composer Relationship with novelist “George Sand”...
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Frederic Chopin (1810- 1849) • Polish pianist and composer • Relationship with novelist “George Sand” (Aurore Dudevant) • Personal Style – Preferred salon performances – Short pieces that would often evoke either a mood or a dance • Polish dance forms (based on the meter and dance feel, not melodies) • Mood music: nocturnes, preludes, etudes, etc. – Characterized by either grace and elegance, or explosions of virtuosity
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Frederic Chopin (1810-1849)• Polish pianist and composer• Relationship with novelist “George Sand” (Aurore Dudevant)• Personal Style
– Preferred salon performances– Short pieces that would often
evoke either a mood or a dance• Polish dance forms (based on the meter and dance
feel, not melodies)• Mood music: nocturnes, preludes, etudes, etc.
– Characterized by either grace and elegance, or explosions of virtuosity
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)• Hungarian pianist and composer• Teens- moved to Paris to perform
– Age 19 – witnessed Paganini and became a recluse
– Worked on technique to become the “Paganini of the piano”
• A new type of virtuoso – overwhelming talent, wowed audiences, one of the first musical “sex symbols”– My 10 fingers have the power to reproduce
harmonies created by 100 performers”– His compositions were intense, loud, thick, and
often considered vulgar
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
• Led Bach revival– St. Matthew’s Passion
• Violin Concerto– One of the most commonly
performed– Reversed and altered
‘double exposition’– Cadenza-like passages
through-out
