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Frederic Chopin
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As early as 1831, the Leipzig music publisher Heinrich Probst had written to Chopin about publishing some of his works. By the time Chopin began serious negotiations with publishers the following year... Probst had sold his business to Friedrich Kistner. Chopin showed Probst's letter to Farrenc in Paris, who thereupon offered Kistner the German rights to the works he had bought from Chopin. When Schlesinger took over Farrenc's interest, he honored the agreement already made with Kistner. Schlesinger provided Kistner with copies of proofs corrected by Chopin beginning in November 1832. Kistner wasted no time at all rushing this music into print, so that his editions appeared several months ahead of Schlesinger's.
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Das früheste von Chopin im Druck erhaltene Stück ist eine Polonaise in g-Moll (K. 889) von 1817. Werke dieser Gattung komponierte er immer wieder. Einige Polonaisen ohne Opuszahl sind Jugendwerke, die Chopin später nicht veröffentlichen wollte, weil sie ihm zu schlicht waren. Zunächst orientierte er sich den Polonaisen Michał Ogińskis, Józef Elsners, Johann Nepomuk Hummels und Carl Maria von Webers. Seine späteren, in Paris entstandenen Werke dieser Gattung machen sich von den Vorbildern frei.
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In 1847 Chopin and Sand split up. In 1848 he visited England and Scotland to play in concerts, but he was seriously ill and had to return home. He died in Paris in 1849.
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[W]ithin these limits, Chopin poured out a steady stream of wonderful inspired music - passionate, stormy, happy, sad, dreamily reflective, and rich in melody. At the same time, his music is always perfectly judged in terms of form and technical style.
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In 1836 Chopin became engaged to a seventeen-year-old Polish girl, Maria Wodzińska, whose mother insisted that the engagement be kept secret. The following year the engagement was called off by her family.
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That year, in an effort to overcome the tuberculous which probably developed as a result of the bronchial infection he had suffered some months before, Chopin took George Sand and her two children to Majorca to live. But the disease was to plague him for the rest of his life.
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