music of all time. He spent most of his life in Paris and was good

famous artists such as Ingres and Delacroix. His music is considered to

romantic in content, but very different from the romanticism of the

fact is said that he very much disliked the music under this

and he thought most of it was quite vulgar. (Schonberg)

At age 16 Chopin was already very well known for his music, and at that

time he was already enrolled in the Warsaw Conservatory of Music. His

Joseph Elsner was said to have done a brilliant job preparing him for

in composition and music. Elsner was able to see ChopinÕs potential as a

musician and did nothing to impede his own personal progress, but at the

time he gave Chopin a solid background in harmony and composition.

ChopinÕs music is quite different from anything the world had ever

seen. One thing that sets it apart is the fact that it received little

allowed him to be welcomed into the homes of the elite families of

hold the attention of the reader, and also a keen sense and

of infinite color poetry, and nuance, a heroic instrument, and intimate

one of ChopinÕs works as being his defining contribution because so many

a style that broke sharply from everything that went before it. For the

whereas the new ideas about pedaling, fingering, rhythm, and coloristic

the expectations of Parisian life, he was able to maintain a very

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