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Frederic Chopin: French Romantic
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In 1817 Mikołaj Chopin became a teacher of French at the Warsaw Lyceum, housed in Warsaw University's Kazimierz Palace. The family lived in a spacious second-floor apartment in an adjacent building. In 1823-26 Fryderyk himself would attend the Warsaw Lyceum.
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Chopin had three pianos in his flat in London — the Pleyel and instruments by the English maker John Broadwood and the French maker Erard. A different Broadwood piano, made in 1847 and used by Chopin for three recitals in London, is ... in the Cobbe collection.
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The appearance of Breitkopf's early Chopin editions confirms that they, like Kistner's, were closely based on proofs supplied by Schlesinger. In the Variations on "Je vends des Scapulaires" displayed here, Breitkopf's edition closely parallels Schlesinger's up to the third system on the left-hand page. At that point, the French engraver had changed the prevailing notational pattern--designed to clarify which hand was supposed to play which notes--in order to squeeze as many notes as possible onto a single system. The German editor made the notational pattern of this passage consistent with what had come before and spread a single measure over two systems. From that point on, the layout of the Breitkopf edition is independent of its French model.
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Chopin regarded the Romantic movement with indifference, if not distaste, and rarely associated himself with it directly. Even so, today Chopin's music is considered to be the paragon of the Romantic style.
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