#fryderyk chopin

[disapoimeq]

Now, I offer Chopin vs rectangle. Next time? Who knows? 🤨☝🏻

#lmao #chopin #fryderyk chopin #classical music #classical composer #art #history

[antynous]

Save me choliszt

#franz liszt #fryderyk chopin #frederic chopin #classical composers #art

[felixwhetsel]

"Paris is whatever you choose : you can amuse yourself, be bored, laugh, cry, do anything you like, and nobody looks at you; because thousands of others are doing the same as you, and everyone goes his own road...

...I finally decided to migrate to this other world. Through Paër, who is court conductor here, I have met Rossini, Cherubini, Baillot, etc. — also Kalkbrenner. You would not believe how curious I was about Herz, Liszt, Hiller, etc. —"

#Fryderyk Chopin #Franz Liszt #Frédéric Chopin #historical fanart #1830s #felix draws

[honey-flwrs]

chopin sketch ^_^ (with a cut off liszt in the corner)

#frederic chopin #fryderyk chopin #chopin #art #sketch

[slaviclore]

(I'm using their westernized names on purpose to avoid biasing the poll pls don't kill me)

#history #polls #Europe #fryderyk chopin #Marie Skłodowska-Curie

[emilia-chopin]

together even on a postage stamp

#frederic chopin #franz liszt #chopin #liszt #classical composers #classical composer #classical music #classic composers #fryderyk chopin #art

[shiii-is-tired]

pianist vs his gf’s puppy

#marquis mentioned #chopin #frédéric chopin #classical composers #fryderyk chopin #chopins only son and it’s sand’s lil puppy

[ariaovon]

🎶

#fryderyk chopin #chopin #classical music #classical composer #romantic era #frederic chopin #portrait

[frodogla]

I CANT TAKE A GOOD PHOTO MY HANDS ARE SHAKING SORY

#frederic chopin #chopin #fryderyk chopin #franz liszt #art #artwork #sketch #classical composers

[disapoimeq]

chat ignore this post I just wanted to draw my gf Fryc

#chopin #fryderyk chopin #classical music #classical composer #composer #art #shitpost #history

[antynous]

Happy birthday gayboy

#fryderyk chopin #frederic chopin #franz liszt #classical composers #Liszt is the bus driver of this post #Whenever I draw Chopin I feel obligated by a supernatural force to also draw Liszt #art #illustration

[ohchopin]

😍!

#chopin #fryderyk chopin #manuscripts #romantyzm #manuscript #notation #library #frederic chopin #classical music #piano music #polish music #composers #classical composers #romanticism #romantic music #romantic academia #19th century #pianist #dark academia #light academia #polonaise #mazurka #mazurek

[honey-flwrs]

more chopin ft. marquis <3

#art #fryderyk chopin #chopin #I love sand’s crusty white dog

[slaviclore]

I tell my piano the things I would have once told you.

Fryderyk Chopin, in a letter to Tytus Woyciechowski on October 3, 1829

secret context:

This is probably the most famous Chopin quote of them all, to the point that it's on the verge of cliche. The notion that this teenager (he's 19 here) with his extraordinary musical destiny would be confiding in his piano as if to a friend is super compelling. BUT there's another reason why I find it satisfying, and for that I give you the extended passage, Polish and all:

Nie uwierzysz, jak dla mnie teraz Warszawa smutna; gdyby nie to, że familia mi uprzyjemnia, to bym nie wysiedział. – A jak to przykro nie mieć pójść do kogo rano, podzielić z nim smutku, radości; jak to niegodziwie, kiedy coś cięży, a nie ma gdzie złożyć. Wiesz, do czego ta aluzja. Fortepianowi gadam to, co bym tobie był nieraz powiedział.

You wouldn't believe how depressing Warsaw is to me now; if it weren't for my family cheering me up, I wouldn't be able to stand it. -- How miserable it is not to have someone to go to in the morning, to share with him the sadness, the joy; how wicked it is when something weighs on you, and you have nowhere to lay it down. You know to what I allude. I tell my piano the things I would have once told you.

Yes go ahead and enjoy, it's lovely.

the thing is, historians have interpreted this as: poor Chopin is feeling stifled in Warsaw after his big trip abroad (he'd been to Vienna recently) :'( now he can't wait to leave again and go to a proper european city like Paris or Vienna where he'll finally be able to make real art for real :'( :'(

but the thing is, the only thing Chopin finds "depressing" about Warsaw is specifically that his bff/maybe secret boyfriend, to whom he is writing this letter, is not in it anymore. so while a 100 years worth of historians are trying hard to west-ify him, our boy is over here just telling a man he misses him. hero.

#fryderyk chopin #history #quotes #my translations #chopin #edit: fixed the date #this absolutely did not happen in the 1900s can u imagine

[emilia-chopin]

Although Chopin was usually described as an endearingly polite person, many of his students recalled that he also had worse moments. This was felt, among others, by Zofia Rosengardt, who in 1843 came to Paris specifically to study with the Polish pianist:

"He has a lot of wit, a lot of natural intelligence, and he often has wild, unpleasant, bad, angry moments in which he breaks chairs and stamps his feet," she recalled. Rosengardt noticed that the chimerical disposition made itself felt especially on days of "suffering, physical weakness." or an argument with George Sand. Fortunately, the composer quickly calmed down when he saw that his outburst of anger stressed the student.

Source: Frederic Chopin's National Institute

#frederic chopin #classical composers #chopin #classical composer #fryderyk chopin #classical music #quotes #zofia rosengardt

[shiii-is-tired]

never insist a piece is two four in front of its own author

bit more context

#that he look very handsome was painfully unnecessary #anyhow i need more content of him not having a good time™️ #chopin #fryderyk chopin #classical composers