Fantasie Impromptu

Photo

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 17:12:36 -0400

No one understands my love for Chopin!!!!!

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 17:11:30 -0400

Fantasie Impromptu, Waltz #7 in C Sharp Minor…

Everything in C sharp minor!!!! This key was created for Chopin.

Etude #1 In C, Etude #6 In G Sharp Minor, Etude #11 In A Minor, Etude #12 In C Minor…

Ballad NO. EFFIN 1 in G Minor!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My life…..

The birthday card.

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 14:56:50 -0400

The birthday card.

A very useful birthday “present” for my sister that...

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 14:53:00 -0400

A very useful birthday “present” for my sister that took me between three and four hours.

It’s the twelfth to twenty-fourth measure of Chopin’s “Fantaisie Impromptu”.

And yes, I made a mistake in the third measure. XD

Photo

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 19:48:39 -0400

Photo

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:57:08 -0400

17 Chansons Polonais - 17 Polish Songs

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 21:41:00 -0400

Although Frédéric Chopin is best known for his works for piano solo, among his output are a number of songs for voice and piano, set to Polish texts.

Chopin wrote these songs at various times, from perhaps as early as 1827 when he was 17, to 1847, two years before his death. Only two of them were published in his lifetime (Życzenie and Wojak were published in Kiev in 1837 and 1839 respectively).

In 1857 the 17 then known songs were collected for publication by Julian Fontana as Op. 74, but they were not arranged in chronological order of composition within that opus. Due to censorship restrictions, he was only able to publish 16 of them initially. These appeared in Warsaw as Zbiór śpiewów polskich Fryderyka Chopina (A Collection of Polish Songs by Frédéric Chopin), published by Gebethner & Wolff; and in Berlin as 16 Polnische Lieder, published by A M Schlesinger. The 17th song, Śpiew z mogiłki (Hymn from the Tomb) was published separately in Berlin with a French title, Chant du tombeau.

A further two songs were published in 1910. Some references now include all 19 published songs in Op. 74.

Chopin is known to have written a number of other songs that are now lost. Some extant songs have been attributed to Chopin but are now considered spurious or doubtful.

All but one of the texts of the Chopin songs were original poems by his Polish contemporaries, with most of whom he was personally acquainted. The sole exception is Piosnka litewska (A Lithuanian Song), which was set to a Polish translation by Ludwik Osiński of a Lithuanian song.

Ten of them are by a friend of Chopin’s family, Stefan Witwicki, from his Piosnki Sielskie (Idylls, 1830). (Chopin also dedicated his Mazurkas, Op. 41, to Witwicki.) Three were by Józef Bohdan Zaleski. Two were by Adam Mickiewicz. Wincenty Pol’s revolutionary Songs of Janusz (1836) inspired Chopin to write up to a dozen songs, but only one survives. Zygmunt Krasiński, a rival with Chopin for the affections of Delfina Potocka, was another poet who inspired Chopin to write a song.

The songs have been translated into over a dozen languages, but they are most effective in their original Polish. Various English titles have been applied to some of the songs.

Życzenie - The Wish
Wiosna - Spring
Smutna rzeka - The Sad River
Hulanka - Merrymaking
Gdzie lubi … - There Where She Loves
Precz z moich oczu - Out of My Sight
Poseł - The Messenger
Śliczny chłopiec - Handsome Lad
Melodia - Melody
Wojak - The Warrior
Dwojaki koniec - The Double-End
Moja pieszczotka - My Darling
Nie ma czego trzeba - I Want What I Have Not
Pierścień - The Ring
Narzeczony - The Bridegroom
Piosnka litewska - Lithuanian Song
Śpiew z mogiłki | Śpiew grobowy | Leci liście z drzewa - Hymn from the Tomb
Czary - Witchcraft
Dumka - Reverie

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_songs_(Chopin)

a-fourth-raised-degree: EXPANDED CIRCLE OF...

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 20:57:04 -0400

a-fourth-raised-degree:

EXPANDED CIRCLE OF FIFTHS

Chopin’s two most frequent keys are c sharp Minor and A Flat Major. c sharp Minor has four sharps, A Flat Major has four flats.

c sharp Minor: c#-d#-e-f#-g#-a-b-c# | d(b)-e(b)-f(b)-g(b)-a(b)-b(b)-c(b)-d(b)
A Flat Major: a(b)-b(b)-c-d(b)-e(b)-f-g-a(b) | g#-a#-b#-c#-d#-e#-fx-g#

c sharp Minor: e-f#-a-b (2-3-1) | A Flat Major: c-d(b)-f-g (1-4-2)

c-d(b)-e-f-f#-g-a-b (1-3-1-1-1-2-1)

It’s 4 to 3 in the morning. What am I doing? XD

procastino: y un re bonito chopin universo <3

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:59:01 -0400

procastino:

y un re bonito chopin universo

procastino: oh, según mi reloj ya son más las doce y eso...

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:57:57 -0400

procastino:

oh, según mi reloj ya son más las doce y eso significa que hoy es el cumpleaños de chopin de nuevo, eee! :d y es el primero de marzo y no el 22 de febrero porque el mismo chopin decía que era el primero: ”conoce esa fecha por sus padres, quienes habiéndose equivocado una vez, no quieren correr el riesgo de cometer un segundo error”.

si yo lo amo mucho. cuando sea grande quiero ser como él

por la cresta, si yo lo amo mucho

Photo

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:56:05 -0400

Chopin on His Deathbed, by Teofil Kwiatkowski, 1849,...

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:49:41 -0400

Chopin on His Deathbed, by Teofil Kwiatkowski, 1849, commissioned by Jane Stirling. Chopin sits in bed, in presence of (from left) Aleksander Jełowicki, Chopin’s sister Ludwika, Marcelina Czartoryska, Wojciech Grzymała, Kwiatkowski.

Jenny Lind, the Swedish Nightingale, singing at Chopin’s...

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:48:35 -0400

Jenny Lind, the Swedish Nightingale, singing at Chopin’s deathbed in 1849; almost like the nightingale for the Chinese emperor in Hans Christian Andersen’s story.

Music of the Day is Chopin: Piano Concerto in E minor; Opus...

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:47:12 -0400

Music of the Day is Chopin: Piano Concerto in E minor; Opus 11

Pianist: Arthur Rubinstein

procastino: encontré un gif de chopin con epilepsia

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:45:24 -0400

procastino:

encontré un gif de chopin con epilepsia

Chopin’s Nocturne in D flat major, op. 27 no. 2 Maurizio Pollini

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:41:00 -0400

Chopin’s Nocturne in D flat major, op. 27 no. 2

Maurizio Pollini

20.) Alice Sara Ott (* 1988 in Munich, Germany) Alice Sara Ott...

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 16:17:38 -0400

20.) Alice Sara Ott (* 1988 in Munich, Germany)

Alice Sara Ott is a German-Japanese classical pianist. Ott was born in Munich, Germany, in 1988; her Japanese mother had studied piano in Tokyo, and her father was a German civil engineer. At the age of three, after being taken to a concert, she decided she wanted to become a pianist; as she says, she realised that “music was the language that goes much beyond any words” and that she wanted to communicate and express herself through music.

She has made recordings of Franz Liszt’s Transcendental Etudes and Frédéric Chopin’s waltzes for Deutsche Grammophon, and is currently performing concert tours in Europe, Japan, and the United States.

19.) Evgeni Bozhanov (* 10 March, 1984 in Rousse,...

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 16:14:22 -0400

19.) Evgeni Bozhanov (* 10 March, 1984 in Rousse, Bulgaria)

Evgeni Bozhanov is a Bulgarian pianist who trained with Evgeny Zhelyazkov at the National School of Arts “Prof. Vesselin Stoyanov” in Rousse (Bulgaria). From 2001 to 2006, he studied with Boris Bloch at the Folkwang Hochschule Essen and from 2006 he continued his studies with Georg Friedrich Schenck at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf.

He has garnered worldwide attention after his performances at the 2009 Thirteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and the 2010 International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw.

18.) Anna Gourari (* 3 October, 1972 in Kazan, Tatarstan,...

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 16:10:50 -0400

18.) Anna Gourari (* 3 October, 1972 in Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia)

Anna Semyonovna Gourari (Russian Анна Семёновна Гурарий) is a classical concert pianist. She received her first piano education at the age of five by her parents, professors at Kazan Academy of Music. In 1979 she performed her first public concert. From this year onwards she studied at further renowned piano schools and famous piano tutors.

In 1990 she relocated together with her parents to Germany for studying at Hochschule für Musik with Ludwig Hoffmann in Munich. Anna Gourari quickly made herself known by winning important competitions.

1986 1st prize at Kabalevsky competition in Russia
1989 1st prize at First International Chopin competition in Göttingen.
1994 1st prize at First International Clara-Schumann-Klavierconcours in Düsseldorf. Jury: Martha Argerich, Alexis Weissenberg, Nelson Freire, Vladimir Ashkenazy a.o.

Chopin performances:

Chopin (Piano Sonata No.3, Mazurkas) - 1998
Chopin (Scherzi etc.) - 2001

17.) Evgeny Kissin (* 10 October, 1971) Evgeny Igorevitch Kissin...

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 16:06:31 -0400

17.) Evgeny Kissin (* 10 October, 1971)

Evgeny Igorevitch Kissin (Russian: Евге́ний И́горевич Ки́син Yevgeniy Igorevich Kisin) is a Russian classical pianist. He first came to international fame as a child prodigy. He has been a British citizen since 2002. He is especially known for his interpretations of the works of the Romantic repertoire, particularly Frédéric Chopin, Rachmaninoff and Franz Liszt.