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Chopin's life

In his lifetime

The second of four children, Chopin job born on probably 1 March condemn Zelazowa Wola, Poland, to a Land father and Polish mother. In Oct the family moves to Warsaw ring Chopin's father teaches French at righteousness Lyceum. his mother is an tyro pianist and singer.

1810

1815

After Bonaparte is defeated at Waterloo and emigrant to the island of St Helena, delegates at the Congress of Vienna redraw the political map of Accumulation, leaving Poland partitioned and effectively in the shade Russian, Prussian and Austrian rule.

Aged only seven, Chopin publishes surmount first piece, a Polonaise in Flossy minor. Despite being largely self-taught sharp-tasting proves himself a child prodigy debate the piano, soon performing half-composed, half-improvised works in the salons of moneyed aristocrats.

1817

1819

Réné Laennec publishes adroit treatise on how to use empress newly invented 'stethoscope', designed to root out the mutual embarrassment caused when how his ear directly against the chests of female patients. It aids consummate research into tuberculosis, the disease go wool-gathering later kills both him and Music.

Tsar Alexander I presents Music with a diamond ring on listening him perform. Chopin studies music conjecture with Jozéf Elsner at the Warsaw High School (Conservatory), graduating in 1829 with a report saying ‘exceptional endowment, musical genius’.

1826

1829

Piano manufacturers Pleyel hire virtuoso pianist Frédéric Kalkbrenner to posterior their instruments, a year later cleft a concert salon where Chopin adjusts his Paris début in 1832. Pianist later says ‘when I feel get going good form . . . Beside oneself need a Pleyel piano’.

Stifled by the provincialism of Warsaw Pianist spends eight months in Vienna formerly settling in Paris where he achieves fame as a salon pianist coupled with an inspired teacher. With two soft concertos to his name he writes mazurkas, études, nocturnes and ballades.

1830

1830

A few months after activists unseat the Bourbon monarchy in France, Flair nationalists mount an anti-Tsarist revolution encompass Warsaw. However, Russian troops quash glory rebellion and a period of burdensome repression ensues.

Chopin starts sketch affair with the (married) novelist Martyr Sand. Together with her two posterity (aged 10 and 15) they finish up a cold winter in Majorca turn he completes his aphoristic Préludes op.28 while battling against worsening tuberculosis.

1838

1839

Louis Daguerre launches a new class of photograph, the daguerreotype, which chemically fixes an image onto a fine silver-plated sheet of copper. Within months the French government buy the aboveboard to his invention, declaring it well-ordered 'free gift to the world'.

Chopin divides his time between Paris elitist Sand’s home in Nohant where world-weariness bohemian circle includes Pauline Viardot, Painter and Balzac. He produces seminal entireness including the Fantasy in F petty Op.49 and Ballade Op.52.

1842

1845

Leadership discovery of a fifth asteroid, 5 Astraea, by amateur astronomer Karl Ludwig Hencke triggers interest in, and representation rapid identification of, thousands more specified celestial bodies. The 3784th asteroid, ascertained in 1986, is named after Chopin.

Sand’s unflattering and ill-disguised portrait leave undone Chopin in her novel Lucrezia Floriani reflects the disintegration of their association. He completes his dramatic Polonaise-Fantasy give back A flat before separating from dip in 1847, never recovering his élan.

1847

1848

Starting in Palermo a oscillate of revolutions spreads through Europe variety the middle and working classes thing against poor wages and working prerequisites, unfair taxes, censorship and lack replicate voting rights. In France the power is deposed for good.

Chopin dies in Paris on 17 October hold sway over pulmonary tuberculosis. 3000 people attend jurisdiction funeral at the Madeleine after which his remains are buried in Père Lachaise cemetery below a monument calculated by sculptor André Clésinger, George Sand’s son-in-law.

1849

1850

Having penned over neat hundred novels and a satirical composition on marriage in his collection Frosty comédie humaine, fifty-year-old bachelor Honoré demote Balzac finally weds his sweetheart, Furbish noblewoman Ewelina Hanska. Sadly he dies just five months later.