Frédéric Chopin



Alternative names	Fryderyk Chopin
Description	Polish composer, pianist, music pedagogue, virtuoso and musician
Date of birth/death	22 February 1810 / 1 March 1810	17 October 1849
Location of birth/death	Żelazowa Wola	Paris
Work period	1817 –
Work location	Paris
Authority control	: Q1268 VIAF: 71319254 ISNI: 0000 0001 2138 5649 LCCN: n79127769 NAID: 25341204 NLA: 36588280 MusicBrainz: 09ff1fe8-d61c-4b98-bb82-18487c74d7b7 Open Library: OL128112A DBNL: chop003 Oxford Dict.: 52424 GND: 118520539 SELIBR: 181559 SUDOC: 02728591X BNF: 13892469c NDL: 00435950 BIBSYS: 90063786 NKC: jn19992000131 SBN: IT\ICCU\CFIV\025015 BNE: XX1001710 CiNii: DA02483346 NLP: A11784908 KulturNav: 4ec3f665-393c-47cd-ab36-429901dd9e59 NLI: 000031628 Koninklijke: 06962173X Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural: pessoa19890/frederic-chopin NLK: KAC199605021 WorldCat

Portraits[edit]

Photograph by Louis-Auguste Bisson, 1849
First Photograph of Chopin, ca. 1846
First Photograph of Chopin (digitally restored), ca. 1846
Portrait by Eugène Delacroix, 1838
Portrait by Eugène Delacroix, 1838
Stylized rendition of joint portrait of Frédéric Chopin and George Sand by Eugène Delacroix
Portrait by Ary Scheffer (1810-1849)
Portrait by Maria Wodzińska, 1835
Portrait by Ary Scheffer, 1847
Portrait
Painting by Charles Louis Gratia
Portrait by Albert Graefle
Portrait by Jan Ciągliński, 1909
Portrait by Lorenz Vogel
Louis August Bisson, 1849
P. Schick, 1873
1907 Portrait
Portrait by Rudolph Lehmann, 1847
Portrait by Franz Xaver Winterhalter
Illustration George Sand in pencil, 1841
Jakob Götzenberger "Fryderyk Chopin at the Piano", 1838
Jakob Götzenberger "Fryderyk Chopin at the Piano", 1838
Frederic Chopin at age 23
Portrait by Ary Scheffer, 1847
"The Young Chopin" - drawing by unknown hand around 1829/1830
August Kneisel, 1830
1880 Portrait
E. H. Schroeder
Luigi Calamatta "Portrait of Fryderyk Chopin", 1838
Nicolas Eustache Maurin "Portrait of Fryderyk Chopin", 1845
Marie Madeleine Gérard
Antoni Kolberg
Frédéric Chopin from a drawing from life by Anthony Kolberg (1815-1882)
Teofil Kwiatkowski "Fryderyk Chopin on his Deathbed", 1849
Eliza Radziwiłłówna "Fryderyk Chopin at the Piano", 1826
Pauline Viardot "Fryderyk Chopin Reading and Maurice Sand Writing", 1841
Frédéric Chopin' Death Mask - Created by Auguste Clésinger October 17th, 1849 at Polish Museum in Rapperswil, Switzerland.
Frédéric Chopin' Death Mask - Created by Auguste Clésinger October 17th, 1849

Monuments[edit]

Henri Rousseau: Chopin monument in the Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris, 1909
Fryderyk Chopin's monument in the South Park in Wrocław
Statue of Chopin - Łazienki Park, Warsaw
Frédéric Chopin (Polish composer) memorial, 2005 desig. by Bronisław Chromy, Decjusza Park
Chopin's sculpture at Singapore Botanic Gardens
Sculpture of Frederic Chopin near Bronikowski's Palace in Żychlin, designed by sculptor Marcin Mielczarek
Monument in front of Frédéric Chopin Music School in Gödöllő
Monument of Frédéric Chopin in Żelazowa Wola, sculptored by Józef Gosławski. Designed in 1955, unveiled in 1969.
Chopin Monument, Swiss Garden, Vienna
Statue of Frédéric Chopin in the Parc Monceau, Paris sculpted by Jacques Froment Thomas
View East on Chopin Memorial 'Chopinův kámen' 1960 by Karl Otáhal
Monument of Fryderyk Chopin in the City Park at Lake Żnińskim Mały, by the sculptor Jakub Juszczyk. The work was brought in 1963 from Marcinkow Górny to the 700th anniversary of the city.
Park Południowy
Statue in Ustka, Poland
Chopin Monument, Zhongshan Gongyuan, Shanghai
Statue of Fryderyk Chopin in Duszniki-Zdrój
Monument in Słupsk, Poland
Monument to Chopin on Red Beach
Frédéric Chopin memorial in Szafarnia
Bust of Chopin presented by the Polish embassy to the municipality of Culemborg
Frédéric Chopin memorial in Valldemossa
Wooden bust of the composer Frédéric Chopin, 1918. Height ca. 42 cm.
Frederic Chopin - Jardin du Luxembourg
Frederic Chopin, Plaça Frederic Chopin
Fryderyk Chopin monument in the Jordan Park in Krakow
Federico Chopin (1930). Work of the Italian sculptor Pedro Juan Ferrari (1884 - 1970) Inaugurated in the Chacabuco Park on September 22, 1944.
Fryderyk Chopin's monument in Poznan
Fryderyk Chopin monument in Tirana
Bust in Berlin-Mitte

Plaques[edit]

in Praha
in Vienna
12 place Vendôme in Paris
12 place Vendôme in Paris
in London
Epitaph for heart of Frédéric Chopin in Holy Cross Church in Warsaw (sculptor - Leonard Marconi).
Mariánské Lázně - Hlavní třída - View West on Chopin Memorial
Monument of Frédéric Chopin in Żelazowa Wola, sculptured by Józef Gosławski. Designed in 1955, unveiled in 1969.

Gallery[edit]

Teofil Kwiatkowski "Last moments of Frédéric Chopin"
Teofil Kwiatkowski "Chopin's Polonaise - a Ball in Hôtel Lambert in Paris", 1859
Polonez Szopena by Teofil Kwiatkowski
Announcement of the funeral of Frédéric Chopin
George Sand (1864)
Valldemossa, museum entrance Frédéric Chopin Museum and George Sand
Frédéric Chopin Museum in Valldemossa
Piano of Chopin in the museum of Valldemossa
Chopin's birthplace in Żelazowa Wola, Poland
Hôtel Baudard de Saint-James at 12 place Vendôme in Paris. In this house Chopin died in 1849
Hôtel Baudard de Saint-James at 12 place Vendôme in Paris. In this house Chopin died in 1849
Frédéric Chopin Music School. - #6 Ady Endre Promenad, Alsópark, Gödöllő, Pest County, Hungary.
MS Frédéric Chopin
Warsaw Chopin Airport Terminal
Frederic Chopin Theatre in Duszniki-Zdrój
Conservatoire du 15ème @ Paris
Rue du Sergent Blandan, Nancy.

Grave[edit]

Chopin's gravesite at Père Lachaise, Paris. Euterpe sculpted by Auguste Clésinger.
The tomb of Luigi Cherubini and Frederic Chopin (white sculpture)

Signatures[edit]

Autographed partiture by the Polish composer Frédéric Chopin of his Polonaise Op. 53 in A flat major for piano, 1842.
Chopin's Autograph musical quotation signed, Op 53, 1845-05-25, Paris
Autograph signature of the Polish composer Frédéric Chopin
Chopin’s signature

Scores[edit]

Preludio para piano nº 1 en do mayor Op. 28
Trois nouvelles études n° 1 F minor, fa mineur
Beginning of Ballade Nr.1 of Frédéric Chopin - manuscript
Autograph partiture by the Polish composer Frédéric Chopin for his Trio Op. 8 for piano, violin and cello in G minor, written down in 1829
Autograph page of Prelude Op. 28, No. 15 by Fryderyk Chopin.
Erste Takte aus Frederic Chopins Nocturne Opus 9, No. 1
Prélude op. 29 Nr 23 F Chopins original handrwiting
First page of Chopin's Valse in A flat major, Op. 32, published by Wessel & Co. in 1840.
Nocturne Op. 27 No. 2.
Chopin's Autograph of his Prelude 26 in A major