F. F.Chopin
“钢琴诗人”肖邦

Frédéric François Chopin (1810-1849), born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin, was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era, who wrote primarily for the solo piano. He gained and has maintained renown worldwide as one of the leading musicians of his era, whose “poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation”. Chopin was born in what was then the Duchy of Warsaw, and grew up in Warsaw, which after 1815 became part of Congress Poland. A child prodigy, he completed his musical education and composed many of his works in Warsaw before leaving Poland, aged twenty, less than a month before the outbreak of the November 1830 Uprising.
弗雷德里克·弗朗索瓦·肖邦(1810—1849)，原名弗里德里克·弗朗齐歇克·肖邦，波兰作曲家，浪漫主义音乐时期大师级钢琴家，主要创作钢琴独奏曲。肖邦是其所处时代杰出的音乐家之一，世界闻名。“他的诗意天才体现在他的专业技巧上，这在他的时代是举世无双的。”肖邦出生在当时的华沙公国，并在华沙长大，1815年华沙并入波兰会议王国。肖邦小时候就是个音乐神童，他在华沙接受了音乐方面的教育，并创作了很多作品。1830年11月起义爆发前不到一个月，20岁的肖邦离开了波兰。

At the age of twenty-one he settled in Paris. Thereafter, during the last eighteen years of his life, he gave only some thirty public performances, preferring the more intimate 注 atmosphere of the salon. He supported himself by selling his compositions and teaching piano, for which he was in high demand. Chopin formed a friendship with Franz Liszt and was admired by many of his musical contemporaries, including Robert Schumann. In 1835 he obtained French citizenship. In his last years, he was financially supported by his admirer Jane Stirling, who also arranged for him to visit Scotland in 1848. Through most of his life, Chopin suffered from poor health. He died in Paris in 1849, probably of tuberculosis.
21岁时肖邦在巴黎定居。之后余生的18年时间里，肖邦只进行了大约30场公开演出，因为他更喜欢沙龙的亲密氛围。他通过出售自己的作品和教授钢琴课挣钱，非常受欢迎。肖邦与弗朗茨·李斯特结为朋友，很多同时期的音乐家都很敬仰他，包括罗伯特·舒曼。1853年肖邦获得了法国国籍。在其晚年，肖邦得到了爱慕者简·斯特灵的资助，她还为他安排了1848年去苏格兰的行程。肖邦一生大多数时间都受到健康问题的困扰。1849年，肖邦于巴黎辞世，很可能死于肺结核发作。