It presents the two main themes, and sets the music’s overall tone of poetic melancholy. In typical early Romantic fashion, the first movement begins with a lengthy orchestral introduction. The concert won him considerable success. Chopin himself was the soloist, making his public debut in his nation’s capitol. Six months have elapsed, and I haven’t yet exchanged a syllable with her of whom I dream every night – she who was in my mind when I composed the slow movement of my concerto.” It received its premiere, in Warsaw, shortly after he completed it. He wrote to a friend, “I have already found my ideal, whom I worship faithfully and sincerely. Naturally his feelings made themselves felt in his music. The object of his regard was a gifted singer, Konstancja Gladkowska.
2, is actually the earlier piece.Īt the time he composed it, he was in the midst of his first important love affair. Therefore the Concerto in F Minor, which will be performed at these concerts, though labeled No. Due to a delay in publishing, they appeared in the reverse order of their composition. He composed the two concertos in 18, at the end of his teens. In addition to numerous solo works for intimate recitals, Chopin also created six pieces with orchestral accompaniment, for those occasions when larger forces were available (although over the years the full concertos have on occasion been performed, in small venues, accompanied by a small body of strings). So total was his identification with the piano that he included it in every piece of music he composed. He played it, with incomparable grace and brilliance taught it, for the artistic benefit of others, and the financial benefit of himself and wrote for it, with complete understanding of its expressive capabilities. The piano completely dominated Chopin’s life.
Chopin, Fryderyk (Frédéric) - Piano Concerto No.
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