Chopin, Frederic

Chopin, Frederic (1810-49), Polish composer.

Frederic Chopin was the son of a teacher from France who lived in a village near Warsaw.

By the time he was eight, he was giving public performances on the piano and, by fifteen, he was already composing music.

In all, he wrote more than two hundred pieces of music for the piano and two for piano and orchestra.

He left Poland at the age of twenty and settled in Paris. There he became famous both as a pianist and composer.

All his life Chopin suffered from bad health. In 1848 he made a concert tour of England and Scotland. On his return to Paris he was gravely ill and died within a year.

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