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Frédéric Chopin

1810 - 1849

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Frédéric François Chopin (born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin; 1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leading composer of his era whose "poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation". Chopin was born in Żelazowa Wola and grew up in Warsaw, which in 1815 became part of Congress Poland. A child prodigy, he completed his musical education and composed his early works in Warsaw before leaving Poland at age 20, less than a month before the outbreak of the November 1830 Uprising; at 21, he settled in Paris. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Frédéric Chopin is the 4th most popular composer, the 4th most popular biography from Poland (down from 2nd in 2019) and the most popular Polish Composer.

Frédéric Chopin is most famous for his piano compositions, which include études, preludes, nocturnes, and waltzes.

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Among composers, Frédéric Chopin ranks 4 out of 1,451. Before him are Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Johann Sebastian Bach. After him are Antonio Vivaldi, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Giuseppe Verdi, George Frideric Handel, Joseph Haydn, Richard Wagner, Franz Schubert, and Igor Stravinsky.

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Among people born in 1810, Frédéric Chopin ranks 1. After him are Pope Leo XIII, Robert Schumann, Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, P. T. Barnum, Éliphas Lévi, Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies, Theodor Schwann, Howard Staunton, Alfred de Musset, Alexandre Colonna-Walewski, and Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet. Among people deceased in 1849, Frédéric Chopin ranks 1. After him are Edgar Allan Poe, James K. Polk, Hokusai, Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Johann Strauss I, Anne Brontë, William II of the Netherlands, Sándor Petőfi, France Prešeren, Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, and Charles Albert of Sardinia.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Frédéric Chopin ranks 4 out of 1,694. Before him are Marie Curie (1867), Nicolaus Copernicus (1473), and Pope John Paul II (1920). After him are Arthur Schopenhauer (1788), Catherine the Great (1729), Rosa Luxemburg (1871), Albert A. Michelson (1852), Lech Wałęsa (1943), Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906), L. L. Zamenhof (1859), and Paul von Hindenburg (1847).

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Among COMPOSERS In Poland

Among composers born in Poland, Frédéric Chopin ranks 1. After him are Krzysztof Penderecki (1933), Witold Lutosławski (1913), Henryk Górecki (1933), Martin Agricola (1486), Moritz Moszkowski (1854), Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881), Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687), Maria Szymanowska (1789), Mieczysław Weinberg (1919), Grażyna Bacewicz (1909), and Viktor Ullmann (1898).

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