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Prelude, Op. 28, No. 4 (Chopin)
The Prelude Op. 28, No. 4 by Frédéric Chopin is one of the 24 Chopin preludes.


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🔥 Chopin: 10 interesting facts

►1. Chopin is born in 1810

►2. Child star
Chopin was composing and writing poetry at six, and gave his first public concerto performance at the age of eight. It's not really surprising - his mother was a piano teacher, and his father played the flute and violin.

►3. Chopin... Vodka?
It seems it's not just musicians inspired by the great composer. A maker of fine vodka has borrowed the composer's name as a universal mark of quality. The excellence of their vodka isn't inspired by other vodka brands on the market, but takes inspiration from Chopin's boundary-breaking mastery.
►4. Chopin and Bach

Chopin was very fond of Bach - who could blame him? He urged his piano pupils to practise Bach every day to strengthen their fingers and exercise their minds with the mathematical music.
►5. Piano Concerto No. 1

His Piano Concerto No. 2 was written before his Piano Concerto No. 1, in 1830. But the first one was published after the second, leading to the confusion.

►6. Chopin arrives in Paris in 1831
Despite only arriving in Paris in September 1831, Chopin never returned to his homeland of Poland. While he was in the city, he forged friendships with great composers including Mendelssohn, Berlioz and Liszt.

►7. A very modest piano teacher
As as way of making money while living in Paris, Chopin built up a book of rich contacts to whom he would give piano lessons. Unfortunately, he felt too embarrassed to ask his pupils for money, so he looked away while they left the fee on the mantelpiece!
►8. Chopin and Maria Wodziński

On the way back from Paris, Chopin met Maria Wodziński, daughter of his parents' friends. He fell in love with her and was engaged to marry her, but the wedding had to be postponed due to Chopin's bad health. He wrote 'The Farewell Waltz' on the morning of his departure from Dresden, and the relationship ended.

►9. Piano music
Most of Chopin's music was written for piano. He wrote 59 mazurkas, 27 études, 27 preludes, 21 nocturnes and 20 waltzes for the instrument.

►10. Chopin dies aged 39
Chopin died in 1849, most probably from tuberculosis, at the age of 39. He is buried near his friend, composer Cerubini, at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. Mozart's Requiem was performed at his funeral.



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