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    This document provides biographical information about the Polish composer Frederic Chopin who lived from 1810 to 1849. It discusses his childhood in Poland, his career as a pianist and composer who was renowned for his solo piano works, and some of his most famous compositions. It also outlines the later years of his life including declining health and performances leading up to his death from tuberculosis in Paris at the age of 39.

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    Done by: Kok Weng Xiong

    Victor Leong
    Julian Tan
    Woo Yew Seng
    Bee Zhang Long

    Frederic Chopin
    1810 - 1849
    Childhood
     Chopin's father was Nicolas Chopin and lived in Poland.
     His father served the Poland's National Guard during the Ko ściuszko Uprising (1794).
     Frederic Chopin was the couple's second child and only son. (The eldest child, Ludwika, was
    to become his first piano teacher, and several decades later was to repatriate his heart from
    Paris.) He was born at Żelazowa Wola, forty-six kilometres west of Warsaw, in what was the
    Duchy of Warsaw.
     Frederic was born on the 1st of March 1810
    Music

     Frederic used the piano as a solo instrument.

     He had the rare gift of a very personal melody, expressive


    of heart-felt emotion, and his music is penetrated by a
    poetic feeling that has an almost universal appeal.
     The music of Frédéric Chopin is, in many ways, a record of
    Chopin the pianist. All of his music is either for solo piano, or
    places the piano in an important role. As a performer, he was
    known for his improvisational ability, and his compositions
    are often the result of these performances.
    Music Composed
     Fred composed Piano music, 4 ballades, 3 sonatas, preludes, études,
    mazurkas, nocturnes, waltzes, polonaises, impromptus, scherzos, rondos,
    marches and variations

     Some of his ballades include Fantasy in F minor (1841), Berceuse (1844),


    Barcarolle (1846)
    Final Years
     Chopin's public popularity as a virtuoso waned, as did the number of his pupils. In
    February 1848 he gave his last Paris concert. In April, with the Revolution of 1848
    underway in Paris, he left for London, where he performed at several concerts and
    at numerous receptions in great houses.

     This tour was suggested to Chopin by his Scottish pupil and sometime secretary,
    Jane Stirling and her elder sister, the widowed Mrs. Katherine Erskine. Jane
    Stirling also made all the necessary arrangements and provided much of the
    necessary funding.
    Death
     Fred passed away on Octorber 17, 1849
     Frédéric Chopin's illness and the cause of his death remained unclear and
    consequently have become a matter of medical argument. His death certificate
    stated the cause as tuberculosis. In 2008 an alternative cause of Chopin's death
    would be proposed: cystic fibrosis.
     In counterpoint, it can well be argued that survival with cystic fibrosis in the 19th
    century until the age of 39 was virtually impossible,

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