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In Paris, he made a comfortable living as a composer and piano teacher, while giving few public performances. In November 1830, at the age of 20, Chopin went abroad following the suppression of the Polish November Uprising of 1830–31, he became one of many expatriates of the Polish "Great Emigration." He was born in the village of Żelazowa Wola, in the Duchy of Warsaw, to a Polish mother and French-expatriate father, and in his early life was regarded as a child-prodigy pianist.

He is widely regarded as the greatest Polish composer, and ranks as one of music's greatest tone poets. 150 in the passacaglia theme of the Fourth Symphony's finale.įrédéric Chopin (1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period.

He looked to older music for inspiration in the arts of strict counterpoint the themes of some of his works are modelled on Baroque sources, such as Bach's The Art of Fugue in the fugal finale of Cello Sonata No. His friends included leading musicologists, and with Friedrich Chrysander he edited an edition of the works of François Couperin. He also studied the music of pre-classical composers, including Giovanni Gabrieli, Johann Adolph Hasse, Heinrich Schütz and especially Johann Sebastian Bach. He collected first editions and autographs of their works, and edited performing editions. The first movement of this abandoned Symphony was re-worked as the first movement of the First Piano Concerto.īrahms also loved the Classical composers Mozart and Haydn. He once wrote that the Requiem "belonged to Schumann". The main theme of the finale of Brahms's First Symphony is reminiscent of the main theme of the finale of Beethoven's Ninth, and when this resemblance was pointed out to Brahms he replied that any ass – jeder Esel – could see that.Įin deutsches Requiem was partially inspired by his mother's death in 1865, but also incorporates material from a Symphony he started in 1854, but abandoned following Schumann's suicide attempt. Thus many admirers (though not necessarily Brahms himself) saw him as the champion of traditional forms and "pure music," as opposed to the New German embrace of program music.īrahms venerated Beethoven: in the composer's home, a marble bust of Beethoven looked down on the spot where he composed, and some passages in his works are reminiscent of Beethoven's style. He was born in Hamburg and in his later years he settled in Vienna, Austria.īrahms maintained a Classical sense of form and order in his works – in contrast to the opulence of the music of many of his contemporaries. Johannes Brahms (– April 3, 1897) was a German composer of the Romantic period.